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A woman who was blissfully ignorant of the existence and meaning of colored dots in curry puffs thought they were imperfections and felt the need to air her complaints online.
The internet, surprised that a Singaporean woman is unfamiliar with the practice, went out in droves to educate her in various shades and shades of sarcasm.
The woman took to the Facebook page of homegrown curry puff pastry chain Old Chang Kee on Tuesday (October 27) to complain about a shop on VivoCity.
Apparently, he had bought Chicken Mushroom’O curry buns (now revamped with butter batter), but couldn’t bring himself to bite into them. Why? Because meat pies had green dots on the crust.
“I was surprised to see these little green dots on the cake. I’m not sure what they are and if they are spoiled [sic]? “he asked, stating that he did not see the brands in similar puffs that he bought at another outlet the day before. As such, he felt that Old Chang Kee Singapore did not deserve his recommendation.
To most Singaporeans who have long known what colored dots in curry puffs mean, your complaint would seem ridiculous. The dots are actually just food coloring and are meant to indicate the filling within the cakes without having to pull them apart to see which is which. The same is done on paus.
Green dots mean it’s a chicken and mushroom sandwich; the red dots indicate that it is a puff of sardine; No dots indicate this is a standard potato-filled puff. However, dotted indicators vary in use and meaning between stores: Malaysian vendors selling traditional curry puffs could use green dots to indicate that there is vegetable filling inside, for example. But the bottom line is that those points don’t affect the edibility of the puff.
Please, old man Chang Kee explained to the whistleblower what the green dot means.
And then the floodgates opened. With over a thousand shares and hundreds of comments on the post, netizens had a field day mocking and lampooning the complaint about curry points. It was brutal.
Then there are those who really amplified the absurdity of ‘explaining’ what green dots are.
