Two sisters, one oven and a lot of strawberries. This is how a weekend hobby became a little pink shop in Bangsar.
Mei and Ann bake strawberry shortcakes in their mum's kitchen in Cheras and sell them through Instagram messages. Twelve cakes a weekend, delivered by car.
A pandan cake with gula melaka caramel, made for their grandmother's birthday, gets shared everywhere. Suddenly it's two hundred orders a weekend.
The sisters open Maison Crème on a quiet street in Bangsar: a glass vitrine, six cakes a day and a bench outside for the queue.
Every crêpe is still flipped one by one and every cake is finished by one of the sisters. Most days the vitrine is empty by four.
“If it isn't good enough for Mum's table, it doesn't go in the vitrine.”Mei & Ann, founders