It’s common, Malaysian coffee shop to have toast bread slice with Kaya spread. In general Europeans take bread with butter & jam. Malaysian Chinese coffee shops especially, toast bread served with marjerin/butter & KAYA spread. It goes even better with Benggali bread slice. Wow superb !!
The Malay word for ‘Kaya’ literally means Rich / Wealthy. In the pass rich people wanted to show off (but not limited then only) the Chinese Baba Nyonya are such & wanted to show off their wealth in many elaborate ways one of the ways was by preparing Kaya. Prepared from coconut milk, yellow egg yolk, sugar (palm). Steam cooked in a unique tip less cone shape wooden container. The shape allows steam circulate more dense on top thus forming golden thick paste.
When common people saw rich people using this golden spread for cooking & spread they believed that person is so rich able to eat gold. The word Kaya got picked up from there.
Itu orang “kaya” boleh makam emas lo 
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12 dish – O orang kaya
They also used tall staged tiffin to show off the many different dishes they could afford, one of it the 12 staged tiffin
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- Complete set of kaya making
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- Cone shape for dense steam circulation
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- Vent for steam to go thru
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- 12 dish – “Oooo” orang kaya lo (very rich man) They also used tall staged tiffin to show off the many different dishes they could afford, one of it the 12 staged tiffin
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