COMMENT | Mami Johara and her pa thong ko

COMMENT | Have you heard of pa thong ko? It’s a golden-brown chewy snack with a rough texture on the outside but soft on the inside - very much resembling doughnuts, except for the shape.

Pa thong ko has an odd shape, particularly a strip that sometimes looks like a chromosome. It always comes in twos, like a pair of twins, with the body attached in the middle.

Among the Chinese community, pa thong ko is better known as you tiao or you char kway. In the Malay community, it is known as pak tongko or cakoi. However, in my Mamak community, we have always called it pa thong ko or pa tang koi...