These milkshakes are the size of a baby

The four FreakShake flavours in Patissez Malaysia at the moment are, from left: Muddy Pat, Pretzella, Like A Velvet, and Mint Condition. Photo: The Star/Glenn Guan

In early 2015, Anna Petridis and her mother Gina had just come off of hit Australian reality cooking show My Kitchen Rules, an experience which Petridis says was a “disaster”, as the duo were among the first to be eliminated.

After the show ended, Petridis’ father asked her if she would like to run a café with her mum. She jumped at the chance to flex her creative muscles, and the mother-daughter duo soon launched their café Pâtissez in Canberra, Australia’s capital. And from those seemingly innocuous beginnings, the now-famous FreakShakes emerged.