Is it all from the same company? Or do multiple terrible cake companes all just share the same terrible formula?
Which cakes? I’ve searched my entire brain catalogue for Chinese cakes and I must say it was pretty empty. I didn’t know there were a particularly bad type sold at school cafeterias and cheap takeaways
I’m guessing this is what they’re referring to:
I’ve personally seen it served identically at a few different unrelated places. I’m guessing its sold pre-made, considering that the appearance is always identical.
Oh, thanks for the image. No I’ve never seen that
I am literally in actual China today and I have no idea what cake they mean.
Edit: I’ve seen the image below. Yeah, I don’t associate that with china.
With that said I know you didn’t mean it as China has no notable cake, but I can associate at least one cake with the most China thing ever. Ma Lai Gao. The one you see in every single dim sum restaurant. Kinda like sponge cake.
I think where I live most mainstream asian restaurants don’t showcase their desserts as much as their other dishes. You’ve just made me realise this. It’s like you need to actually search for them on the menu to find them, unlike with western style restaurants which clearly have cakes and sweets on display. I recall places selling a variety of asian cakes and sweets but they’re niche… This explains why my mental repertoire is so empty.
Ma Lai Gao. It’s on my list now, I must try this!
Aramark, Cisco foods, etc.
They’re probably frozen and thawed out for service. Like 90% of stuff served in high volume restaurants.
Sysco foods. Cisco is the router company, but some of their stuff tastes the same.
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Hey, some of us like that stuff! But I have no idea
Yo, I load that shit up with ice cream. I love it.
Hopefully we’ll get an authoritative answer from someone who works at one of those places.
But if I had to wager on it, I’d wager that they all use a similar simple cheap recipe, and it’s just part of their daily routine of stuff that they make.
If you’ve ever paid attention to a Chinese takeout type place (I know, not necessarily the same thing) then you’ll notice they all have a giant pot of this sauce/stock stuff that they use in almost every dish. Every day someone comes in and prepares a big batch of that stuff (it’s made from soy sauce and a few other simple ingredients). Then just ladle it out all day as they cook up each order. They would never do this for home cooking, but for a restaurant it makes total sense.
So my guess is some poor bastard comes in early in the morning and dumps some giant box of cheap industrial cake mix into a huge mixing bowl with some other basic ingredients and then just spreads it out in a pan and throws it in a commercial oven. It’s not a ton of work, and you can do other things while it’s baking.
It’s true a lot of restaurants outsource their baked goods and desserts, but my guess for a buffet which is operating on lean margins, they would not.
Same company that makes all the other shit at a Chinese buffet. And its all soyent green shipped over from China.
