I have finally uncovered the name of the green cakes from my childhood

I’m putting this here so the SE Asian users of this site can laugh at me for being r-slurred. Anyways I went to a Catholic school which meant that like 70% of the kids who attended were Filipino which was my only way of experiencing Asian cuisine bc my parents are mayo and my dad can’t tolerate food much more flavorful than a chicken nugget.

Anyways sometimes they’d bring in a slice of green cake that was packaged like a slice of meat and I’d trade them whatever normie thing I had for lunch for it. Life moved on but I still occasionally thought of the green cakes but were unsure of what exactly they were. Until yesterday when I went to an Asian market on my own time and found a bunch of individually packaged green cakes or Pandan Cakes. I always wondered why they were green apparently it’s because it’s flavored using leaves. The prepackaged cakes are not as good as the slabs from my childhood but they’re still pretty good, and low in calories!

This makes the second SE Asian food I’ve had consciously and it’s definitely my favorite. The second was Tom Yum Soup which I think is actually my least favorite food of all time. The bizarre mix of sour and spicy is not for me.