A man’s post of his mum’s RM90 “Memang Gah” cake has Malaysia in stitches — netizens think it looks like a cement slab
IT looks like a slab from a construction site. It is, allegedly, a cake.
A man recently took to Threads to share a photo of a cake his mother had ordered, posing what has now become the most important question of the week: “Guys, take a guess what cake my mom had ordered. What type of cake is this?”
The details made the post even more baffling: the cake measures 7 x 7 (inches), costs RM90, and goes by the rather audacious name or as the author puts it “memang gah” — loosely translated as “bragging” or “boastful” in Malay.
Looking at the photo, the cake’s dull, grey appearance left the author — and thousands of commenters — completely stumped.
“I don’t know whether to be sad or to laugh at the (cake) seller,” he admitted.
The post racked up 2,600 likes and 1,900 comments, with netizens falling over themselves to offer their best guesses at what, exactly, they were looking at.
The overwhelming frontrunner? Cement. Many were convinced the photo showed a freshly poured slab, not a baked dessert.
Others had equally colourful theories: flower foam or floral sponge (“burned for 20 minutes,” one helpfully suggested), a whetstone or sharpening stone, and even belacan — the pungent fermented shrimp paste beloved in Malaysian cooking — a reference to the cake’s suspiciously grey and unappetising hue.
The more culinary-minded guessed it was a Cadbury chocolate cake gone badly wrong, with someone suggesting the chocolate had been mixed directly into the flour, producing the unfortunate colour.
“If you did not say it was a cake, I would not know that this is a cake,” one commenter put it plainly — a sentiment that appeared to represent the majority view.
The viral post did not go unnoticed by Malaysia’s baking community.
Savvy cake sellers wasted no time flooding the comment section with photos of their own far more appetising creations — colourful Sarawak layered cakes (kek lapis Sarawak) and glossy Cadbury chocolate cakes among them — effectively turning the comment section into an impromptu cake showcase..
As for the RM90 cake — what it tastes like remains a mystery. What it looks like, however, Malaysia has already made up its mind about.
