This year, I was lucky enough to have a stall at the 2020 Pasar Malam. I collaborated with my sister (who also goes to Allsaints) and two of our friends who are more skilled at cooking than us. We face timed each other and came up with a business name, product, costs of materials and more of the important parts of creating a product to sell at the Pasar Malam.

We decided to sell macarons and melting moments. The weekend before the Pasar Malam, my sister and I baked 250 melting moments over around 8 hours. It was very tiring work, however we eventually finished and were sick of making melting moments. The cost of all of the ingredients was about $70 in totall. We kept the 250 melting moments in the fridge so that they wouldn’t melt.

The day of the Pasar Malam came, and we set up our stall and waited for people to come by. It was a slow start but after a little while people noticed what we were selling and started to buy. The original price was $2 each or 3 for $5. As it got later in the evening, we reduced the price to $1.50, then eventually to only $1. At times when there weren’t many people walking by, two of us would walk around carrying some of the melting moments and macarons selling them.

What we found was that macarons were selling much quicker than melting moments, so by the end of the night there were none left. We only had melting moments left and were even selling them 2 for the price of 1.

When we started to pack up, we had about 2 small boxes left. It was quite successful and we earnt a profit of $383. If we do it again next year, I think we should just make macarons because they are cheaper to make and they sell better. Overall, selling at the Pasar Malam was a great experience.