Jen Kwok Lee had never tasted a crumpet before coming to Australia. He was 20, newly arrived in Melbourne from Kuala Lumpur, when he first spotted them on supermarket shelves. “It was the first thing I could afford, and I just fell in love with them,” he says. At the time, he cooked them in a Kmart toaster, topping them with lashings of peanut butter and honey.