I came across a young boy munching on a piece of gingerbread man on Christmas eve. He caught my attention when he started making weird expressions on his face upon his first bite. This aroused my curiousity and I began to wonder how does it taste like. Is it hard or soft, sweet or spicy? Kiah Shen who was beside me, couldn't give me a satisfactory answer. So he made his way to the Coffeebean cafe counter and purchased a gingerbread man to let me have a taste of it.
"Run, run, as fast as you can. You can't catch me. I am the gingerbread man."
Childhood imaginations of the fleeing gingerbread man being pursued by a hungry mob and the prospect of eating it filled me with a slight sense of guilt. These thoughts were disrupted when Kiah Shen came back with a big gingerbread man on a plate and now I had to decide which part should I eat first. The head, hand or leg? Oh, not the head! Those big staring white chocolate eyes! That'll have to be the last. So I broke off the leg and took my first bite. Hmm... not sweet nor spicy. The texture was ok, not too hard. Smells nice but the taste was not fantastic at all. Well, this was a bit of a disappointment after all the anticipation. Maybe that's why it's only popular during Christmas, no?
