How hard was this? In between everything else we all had to whittle down some of our favourite all-time food and serve it up in a coherent manner for all to feast upon. It's been a great year for food, Malaysia's been getting good press about our cuisine, there has been sightings of foodtrucks and events…
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Sometimes the best gifts are the ones that come straight from the kitchen. They show that time, effort, and most importantly heart has been put into it.
Besides, who wouldn’t love a delicious gift that they could nosh on? Simple edible presents that would please your friends and family. Perfect…
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Everyone has places that they keep going back to. Places that are institutions in their hometown where as a kid their parents used to bring them, dangling on knees slurping half-boiled eggs from ceramic dishes or mussing up faces with fragrant briyani. And the reason they go is because when their parents…
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The SS18 Subang Jaya location is by far the best Pasar Ramadhan in Kuala Lumpur and Petaling Jaya for the year 2011. The food here is old world meets new school. If it was a movie, the SS18 would have won best film, best director, best actor, best supporting actress and a countless of other awards that…
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It’s an early Sunday morning and I’m in the kitchen located at the back of Masjid Jamek in Kampung Baru. 15 huge kenduri pots are bubbling away, filled almost to the brim with a cream-coloured liquid. I spy a knotted pandan leaf bobbing about in the pot as a man stirs one with concentrated intensity.…
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It’s okay if you’re too tired to cook. Hey, it’s okay if you’re too tired to go out, even. But then what will you eat? There are only so many times you can call up your favourite pizza place before they recognize your voice (and that’s just.. sad).
So we’ve rounded up a list…
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These days more people are making the move from buying commercially mass-produced goods to supporting local companies making homemade products, better known as artisanal products. We looked into the recent (and we came to learn, not so recent) trend of artisanal ice cream and came across some interesting…
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When people around me talk about Indonesian food, they always talk about Ayam Goreng Penyet, or Sate Padang, Rendang Minang, or Soto Ayam but that’s about it. The same names are mentioned again and again as if Indonesian foods are just plates of smashed chicken or spiced beef satay.
Born…
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Eating every part of the animal isn’t some new-fangled slow food trend. In every meat-eating culture, peasants had to make use of all the bits of slaughtered animals that the rich folk didn’t deign to eat. They had to cook it with much tender loving care into dishes that people wouldn’t just eat,…
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Since men discovered fire, there has been grilling. So alongside prostitution a grill-pit master is most likely one of the oldest professions. Imagine the gasps of respect your friends will give you as you invite them over for a barbecue but proceed like a chef-magician to conjure up tasty grilled delights…
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We’ve all heard of child prodigies in music, art, movies, sports and science. Now with TV shows like Junior MasterChef, there’s yet another category of inspiring kids: cooks! To help you understand this phenomenon, we’ve trawled the Internet and found so many little Kellers and Changs, and parents…
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“You’re having two goats on a spit?” Wow. Kid’s parties have certainly gotten a whole lot bigger and more expensive compared to my time. Then, the most expensive was a buttercake ordered from a woman named Nancy, some punch, a few munchies and you’re good to go.
Now there’s the…
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