Comments by "Angry Kittens" (@AngryKittens) on "How A 500-Year-Old Rainbow Sweet Is Preserving One Of Asia's Forgotten Cultures | Still Standing" video.

In the Philippines we call a similar dessert "sapin-sapin." We also have a different term for "kueh", we call them "kakanin" (literally "that made of rice", i.e. "ricecakes"), most of which are served wrapped in various leaves. These dishes are native to Southeast Asia, adapted by the Peranakan into their own versions, not the other way around.
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Well the entire video is claiming a VERY COMMON universal Southeast Asian dessert is rare, endangered, and is a unique heirloom recipe of Singaporeans. 😑
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In the Philippines, we have a similar dessert called "Sapin-sapin".
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@restfulstillness2274 The thing is, the dessert is NOT Peranakan. It's traditional to the entirety of Southeast Asia. Including the way that it is often eaten layer by layer.
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@restfulstillness2274 Southeast Asian. It's found throughout ALL of Southeast Asia, even in areas where Peranakan do not come from, like the Philippines, Laos, or Myanmar. It's not even rare. It's very common. It also does not exist in China, so the Peranakan can't claim they got it from there. What is more likely is that the Peranakan merchants in Singapore became the main producers of it in the city. Hence it became associated with them. Even though, outside of Singapore, it is considered a traditional dish in numerous other Southeast Asian cultures. A similar dish even exists in Goa in India (which probably acquired it from Southeast Asia via Portuguese trade), the bebinca. Though their version isn't dyed.
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@restfulstillness2274 Lastly, Southeast Asians are the descendants of the original rice cultivators in the Yangtze during the Neolithic. We were displaced by the Sinitic peoples around 4000 to 2000 years ago, pushing us outwards to Southeast Asia. Glutinous rice, which is used for most ricecakes, even specifically originally developed in the highlands of Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam. Rice is our ancestral crop. Not East Asian, as is a common misconception in the west. Rice and ricecakes are more central to Southeast Asian cuisines in comparison to East Asian cuisine. We have thousands of different ricecakes. This is just one of them.
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@s._3560 This doesn't exist in Fujian and isn't from Fujian. These layered desserts use ingredients like coconut milk and pandan, which are original crops/products of specifically Austronesians in Island Southeast Asia. They are found all throughout Southeast Asia and isn't in any way "endangered" or unique to Singapore. It's not even a Peranakan dish. It's just Southeast Asian.
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And then China claims it all as theirs in the end. 😑
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This feels like yet another attempt at claiming something Southeast Asian as Chinese.
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