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Q: Cakes in China
This has been a pet peeve of mine for a long time. Why is it that when you get some cake in China, you are given a tiny little two-pronged cocktail fork with which you are supposed to use to eat said cake? What exactly is the deal here?
Mr Tibbles:
I do buy many Chinese made cakes, since sometimes I enjoy a slicde as dessert, and at other times as a snack with a cup of coffee.
I have been given a bunch of different things with the cake at pick up time. Candles, plastic forks and spoons, paper plates, even a plastic spatula to cut the cake, some paper napkins, even one time a few toothpicks. I pay no attention to those, they go for the lady that buys the recycables.
When I get home I use my serrated knife to cut the cake, my metal spoons or forks to eat it on my dinner plates and sit back to enjoy the taste without a worry. May I suggest you do the same, please?
It would be my guess that that particular style of fork maybe was on special or discounted, and the bakery bought a large supply. Besides, watching Chinese eat cake they go for very thin slices normally, not the one or two inches thick that we normally have.
MrTibbles:
When I buy a cake, I always use actual utensils to eat it. This is more of an office birthday thing where you get handed a tiny little cocktail fork.
what's worse in shenzhen when you get your cake to go they put it in a small baggy and not a container
Or the plastic mould around it that is a minor pain to remove.
I guess it varied from region to region. I bought a cake for my Chinese colleagues some event a few weeks ago and they threw half a dozen little plastic sticks into the package to eat it with. Sticks!
Sometimes I get the pronged toothpick fork, sometimes I get a little spoon or a spork. It depends on the place, but it's always super tiny. Maybe the Chinese customers take smaller bites?
