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A year ago, I bumped into a series of flag designs created out of food for Australian Food Festival. The idea was simple, each flag was composed with traditional food elements that related with each country. And then me and Honey thought, what would it be if it were a Malaysian flag? Would it be made out of nasi lemak? Or chicken curry?

Jalur Gemilang was designed by Mohamed Hamzah in 1947 for the Malaysian flag design competition. The first design was a green flag with blue kris in the middle, surrounded by 15 white stars. The second design, which was among the three finalists, was similar to the current flag but with a five-pointed star. He borrowed major elements from the American flag, by using stripes as the idea to represent the 14 states.

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The Pasar Ramadhan tradition here in Kuala Lumpur is something I've found to be similar to the ones back home, in Jakarta. It’s a time where people can have various types of kuih, drinks and of course traditional lauk and enjoy the festivities.

This year, my content editor asked me to cover pasar ramadhans in KL in the form of a photo essay. To start the hunt, we went to TTDI market on the third day of Ramadhan, expecting the food to be a great treat for iftar. Sadly, it was disappointing. It wasn’t as happening as last year.

Our hunt then continued to other markets in Kota Damansara, Pelangi Damansara and Puchong Perdana. And of course, the faithful hunt brought us to better markets where we were able to fulfill our craving for some delicious dishes.

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I have been fasting regularly now for 20 odd years. And let me tell you I have made all the mistakes. Ate so much at buffets, they have to wheel me out on a gurney. Suffered nights of indigestion. During uni days with limited funds and a need to look like a waif, I only ate one meal. By the time the 10th day of fasting came, I clear passed out during an economics lecture.

There's more. But the stories are dodgy so let's just put it that though I've always fasted sincerely, there have been times when I've completely missed the point of it all.

That fasting is time to reflect and be thankful for something as simple as knowing where your next meal is coming from. It's also a time of moderation. And I suppose with the siren call of buffets and Pasar Ramadhans galore, it's hard to keep centred.

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Sharing some experiences from the 4th Annual New York Food Film Festival, one of my favourite events was their day 4 event : The Worlds First Food Truck Drive-In Movie at the Tobacco House, Dumbo, Brooklyn. This is a special event as somehow the organisers managed to gather 20 of the top mobile food trucks in the city. People can get a sampling of New York's best street food in one place, at the same time. Now how about that?! Cool. People were impressed because if you were to queue for them at their normal locations, the lines on some of these trucks can be about 20-30 people long at any time. It's very special occasion to see them all in one place. Tickets were sold out way in advance.

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This project started when our new intern The Charlie joined us at FC for a short stint. As usual, I was doing some research on food and design projects while talking about random ideas with her when we somehow thought of making food origami. We initially wanted to stick a few pieces of paper together to construct different food shapes, but we wanted more of a challenge. After figuring out what to make, The Charlie and I decided to make a durian. We researched sites to figure out the structure from scratch. It was a day for origami enthusiasts like us to get busy pressing play and pause on polyhedron tutorial videos while patiently folding sonobes. Surprisingly, that makes us happy...we're weird that way.



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Shuckers ready? Suckers puckered? Grab an oyster. Loosen those jaws... GO!

Building a city out of cookies is not a new idea. In fact, many people have done it before, be it by stacking cookies to imitate the city, or by simply making a cake that is in the shape of a building. This makes a great analogy between cooking and architecture, where both can be seen as lofty art or simply as a humble craft.



I was talking to a friend who's working on some construction projects when this came to mind. When he talks about materials related to construct a building, I think of the juxtaposition from a food perspective. And a simple one that I came up with was cookies.


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