The specialty cake of Medan in North Sumatra and is often brought as a gift by those who visited the city. Very common to be found in Indonesia and Singapore but very rare in Malaysia.

Even I heard Hongkies ate this during CNY!

Why not popular at Malaysia? Malaysia got white colour one but not sedap.

Go Penang, can eat everywhere in kopitiams.

diam 7 la sei sohai dupe

Rare? it's called Kek Sarang Semut / Kek Gula Hangus here. definitely not rare at all. u just don't know it's local name.

lotsa breakfast gerai sell this.

This post has been edited by accitzone: May 15 2023, 12:01 PM

There used to be alcohol added into the recipe right?

Still prefer kuih lapis.

This post has been edited by dark_axl21: May 15 2023, 12:02 PM

I also prefer sarang semut







thing is, bika ambon is made from tapioca+wheat flour, whereas sarang semut from wheat flour

This post has been edited by JimbeamofNRT: May 15 2023, 12:05 PM

yeah he donno local name and act as rare lol

this type of cake is everywhere ler... how come rare here? sometime those makcik nasi lemak stall in the morning also sell

TopKEK sarang semut

Yes, very common in penang.

Actually, I agree with ts. This kek got special taste, not like kek sarang Semut or gula hangus.

Their texture look a like, but the taste is different. Indonesia very famous this cake. Here mmg difficult or impossible to get.

Penang one I don’t know. Is it yellow colour like in the picture?

isnt this pak tong kueh?

Too sweet. That sugar to get the penghabluran.

beehive cake mana?
barang sama tapi pattern lain

Maybe this is the honey version of the common white sugar kueh here

suddenly craving kueh bingka ubi

where to get wei the good one?!?!?

that one using rice flour

bika ambon use tapioca flour





haiyoh u guys reti makan saja kah

Different. Sarang semut is chocolate colour.

kek sarang anai + bingka ubi

No. I am avid eater of kuih. I know the difference. It as different as durian and cempedak.

I like the white sugar kuih here. But it cannot beat the bika Ambon.

I crave for bika Ambon but here really cannot buy.

This one u get from Ipoh

Pusat kek dan kuih KHOO eng CHEE.

nyonya shop here also got but not that good

why lah the good one always far far away one



ang ku kueh also I craving now

This post has been edited by JimbeamofNRT: May 15 2023, 03:02 PM

sedap ni

It's called (Kue) Bingka Ubi and the origin is Banjar (South Kalimantan). It's everywhere in Penang.


Can even find the Pandan variety there ;-



This post has been edited by headache: May 15 2023, 04:04 PM

Different. It got sarang semut

Just different name ma. Here call biskut sarang semut right?

The sarang is because tuak is used. I guess yeast can be used as replacement to get similar effect.





This post has been edited by headache: May 15 2023, 07:32 PM

Can't get this in Secret Recipe.

Owaii ...

No wonder so flavorful