malaysian ma? 🤔

yepp MALAYSIAN!! i guess that's an easy start la heh. but tealive is actually pretty big rn (all over SEA and even dah ada kat australia, canada, uk, UAE, etc.), with several sources saying there are 1000+ outlets globally WHICH IS ACTUALLY INSANEE

nope, spanish. the name of the brand comes from the word chupar which means suck in spanish :P

nopess scottish, founded by sir thomas johnstone lipton

malaysiannnn hoorayyy

japanese lmao, yakult came bef vitagen so there r ppl who claim vitagen copied yakult but mm is vitagen or yakult better?

SIKEEE IT'S AUSTRALIAN 💀💀💀 idk i was pretty surprised to learn that a while back, ig cuz the way milo markets itself is very local but oh well 😭😭

yea malaysian, i guess this one is kinda obvious kut tapi saje nak throw u off HAHA

huhu singaporean. founded by fraser and neave (as u might guess), two scotsmen

malaysian!! weh i rmbr i was talking w my brother while eating when i learnt this and i was pretty surprised lol. my parents were when i told them too. also it's called 100plus to commemorate the 100 years since the founding of F&N

AAAHSJJDF BATA IS CZECH. dude yk haritu i was playing scattegories w my friends and one of the prompts was "msian brands" and the letter was B, soooo i confidently and proudly jwb bata lahhh ONLY TO FIND OUT I WAS WRONG UGH OMG

maggi... is from... SWITZERLAND. FRICKING SWITZERLAND. FOUNDED BY A SWISS GUY NAMED JULIUS MAGGI (what a name LMAO). how do ik this? basically haritu when i was going for the mbl camp in poland, we had like a cultural night so i wanted to bring stuff from my country to share abt with others laa AND WHAT BETTER THING TO BRING THAN MAGGI AMIRITE??? ONLY TO FIND OUT MAGGI IS NOT EVEN MSIAN AAAAJSKDKFMG. i still brought maggi mug tho and shared it on the last night (all-nighter) with a friend and didnt tell her abt the true dark disappointing origin of maggi. ey bodola why r all our iconic msian stuff like maggi and milo not even msian to begin with 🙄💔💔

ya it's from indonesia la - congrats einstein. saje nak test and make u question ur entire life hihihi 😹🫵🏻

malaysian. okay mybe obvious but i was lowkey surprised to learn this (from a friend) actually

indonnn lolz

philippines, sadly this is also not ours 😓😓

malaysian!!

also malaysian!!

also also malaysian!! (omg new york cheese cake is the best 🤤🤤)

ya nama dia manhattan but it's malaysian bro HAIH. i guess good call tho cuz no one would eat there if it were called "malaysian fish market" AHAHAHA

it's SWISS oh my goodness

MALAYSIAN LA OFC. KALAU KAU SALAH SMH ARE U RLLY MSIAN??? 😡😡🤬🤬

well i'll tell u that it's not msian. so ahh that must mean it's japanese la kan? SIKE NO IT'S CHINESE BUT PRESENTS ITSELF AS JAPANESE AAAJJSJDF BRUHH. and yk what, a few years ago my family went to japan pastu at some point my brother kut (tak ingat) nak pergi cari miniso but HAHH GUESS WHAT there's not a SINGLE miniso in japan dude and that's how i found out IT'S FRICKING CHINESEEEEE FOR GOD'S SAKE 😭😭

nopeee, invented by two british brothers (james n william horlick - why r their names the most stereotypical british names ever) in the US

WOW BERYL'S IS MSIAN WEH WOW i thought it was a somewhat premium imported brand

MARRYBROWN IS ALSO MSIAN (from johor) WOW UM?? i think it's just the white name that's throwing me off 😭😭

american but they claim that they're the no.1 heavy citrus brand in msia and sgp BUT YA MEH?? cuz ngl i dont rlly see ppl drink kickapoo that much 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️ ALSO the drink was inspired from a comic strip!!

dutch!! i kinda thought it was msian ://

malaysian yippeee

indonesian :(

kinda obvious it's not msian but i was surprised (twice!! bcs i half-forgot after the first time i found out lol) that royce is japanese :00 then i rmbr saying to my parents smth along the lines of "wHy iS iT nOt rOiiSu?!?!" AHAHAHA and okay ya it actually IS "roizu" but they just englishified it and yea i think u'd agree w me that "royce" is not a vry japanese-looking word JDJDFJSJ. OH but it's interesting how they got the name: basically the founder's first name is yasuhiro. reverse the characters -> rohisuya, and "ya" is a suffix for shop in jpnese so that leaves rohisu -> roizu!! 🤯🤯

so apparently dutch lady is msian. HOW IRONIC 😭😭😭

PADINI IS ALSO MSIAN DAMN

FIPPER IS MSIAN??!! I ALWAYS THOUGHT IT WAS A PRETTY BIG INTERNATIONAL BRAND LIKE CROCS OR SMTH. ALSO ALSO ALSO. IT WAS FOUNDED BY SOME GUY NAMED "JACK LIM" AHEM AHEM AHEM

nop, first started in singapore by some american baker i.e. that sloccum guy. but im preeeetty sure someone (my dad?) pernah told me (salah info la) that uncle sloccum was sabahan?!?! lmao idk or mybe im misrmbring

okay so yes u may hv been able to make the reasonable guess that darlie is, in fact, not msian. BUT would u have been able to guess its dark history... 💀💀 so once upon a time, the toothpaste was not called darlie but... darkie (a racial slur against african-americans) and featured a white man in blackface + a top hat. so ahh probably from the states (which was racially segregated at the time) right?? BUT SIKE NOPE ONCE AGAIN IT'S CHINESE 😭😭😭 and in chinese the toothpaste is (till today) called 黑人牙膏 (which directly translates to "black man toothpaste") AAAHSJDJF yea i think i learnt this info from one of my chinese friends. apparently the name is not rooted in racism tho but bcs ppl associated black ppl w white teeth (since their skin was dark, making their teeth look whiter). but later it became controversial in the US (wow who wdve guessed!!), so baru the english name was changed to darlie. HA THE MORE YOU KNOW 🌈✨

malaysian hoorayyy

singaporean, it's called 4fingers cuz the founders believed ppl typically need 4 main fingers on each hand to enjoy their chicken 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️

malaysian!! and sold in 80+ countries now. it's only called julie's bcs the founder wanted it to stand out from other local brands (which mostly had chinese names). there IS no girl named julie lol

american. started in california 100+ yrs ago as a roadside root beer stand. BUT it's the first fast food restaurant to open in msia (in 1963)

CHOKI CHOKI ISNT OURS IT'S INDONESIAN AAAA NOOO MY ENTIRE WORLD IS SHATTERED AND MY HEART IS BROKEN 😔💔