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This is one of the popular main dishes in Malaysia besides curries and sambal. Having a slight influence from the Baba and Nyonya cusine, this dish is supposed to be a little bit hot and sour. It uses bunga kantan and daun kesum , two main ingredients that make a good asam pedas. Without these two ingredients, asam pedas will not be perfect. Do try! Ingredients 2-3 Kerisi Fish 2 big onions, pounded 6 fresh red chillies, pounded 4 lemon grass, pounded 2 bunga kantan, halved a handful of daun... Read Full Story

This is one of my favourite cakes. The first time I sampled this cake when I was an undergrad at University Malaya. We had an annual Art Exhibition which got some of my artwork exhibited and one of my colleagues baked this delicious cake for us all. Since then I have always wanted to try to make this cake but as time was flying by, I almost totally forgotten about it until recently when I got the recipe from a friend of mine. This was my first attempt of making this cake and voila! It turned... Read Full Story

This is a typical Malay style curry that you can get at any Malay home. We make the curry similar to how the Indians do it with the exception of coconut milk. Whereas the Indians do not put coconut milk in their curry, the Malays do love coconut milk in their curries. But you can also substitute the coconut milk with plain yogurt or evaporated milk or even omit them altogether if you are watching your calories. Do try! Ingredients 2-3 fish, cleaned ( you can use any fish you like) 3 garlic... Read Full Story

One thing that I like about Malay Salad is that it has a lot of varieties and beautiful ingredients that distinguish from one salad to another. Not only you can take the salad with rice and other delicacies, you can also eat the salad on its own. I love many kinds of salad from the banana's heart salad that you mix with coconut milk and other herbs to bean sprouts salad mixed with pounded and roasted coconut. I have here a very simple salad that you can try at home. I am sure you will make... Read Full Story

I have cooked nyonya laksa a few times before. My first encounter with nyonya laksa was when I was in my secondary school. The canteen operator cooked a marvellous creamy and sour laksa that look very much like a thin curry broth. I had no idea that it was nyonya laksa not until I grew a bit older. Some might mistaken it for curry noodles, but they are extremely different in taste and texture even though they use the same puff soybean curd and fish balls to name a few. I got a nice Chef Wan's... Read Full Story

Meat Besamah or Besamah Daging is quite similar to meat curry except some extra addition to the ingredients like lemon grass and pounded coconut paste or locally known as kerisek. The gravy is a lot thicker and best eaten with glutinous rice or lemang even bread. We had the chance to cook this dish and eat it with steamed glutinous rice a couple of weeks ago and I thought I would like to share the recipe with you. Have a try! Ingredients Pounded Items 3 garlic 1 inch ginger 2 big onions 4... Read Full Story

Banana! What can I say about this tropical fruit. It is healthy, full of potassium that is good for our health and variable in taste and sizes. They can be as big and long as a tusk or as small as our thumbs...Well, maybe slightly bigger. But what matters most, banana often be the choice of many of us as they are easy to find. Besides eating them raw, we also fry them with batter, mash them to make delicious dumplings, wrap them in a banana leaf and grill them or turn them into sweet dessert... Read Full Story

Making jelly is one of the easiest, fastest and simplest dessert preparation that I have ever known. You can prepare it beforehand and it takes about half an hour to cook and another 1-2 hours to set. That is why I always have a few packets of dried jelly at home so if I feel like making a sweet jelly, I can just disperse the dried jelly in water and add any flavour that I want. You can use any kinds of jelly. Some will come in a dried version, whereas some in powdered version. Some boxed... Read Full Story

My kids simply love pancakes. Normally, the pancakes would not reach the table by the time I finish with the cooking. I was looking at some old pancake photographs from my computer when my niece saw some of them and she quickly requested me to make some pancakes for her. She is staying with us for two weeks during the school holiday which will end until the first week of January. So, as not to disappoint her, I agreed. So, I prepared this very easy and simple fluffy pancakes that I learned... Read Full Story

It would be very seldom that me and my siblings and in laws would eat out together because normally we would either eat at home or have takeaways. But this time, I gave the suggestion that we all should spend some time to eat at a good hotel or restaurant as a big family and had a different ambiance to our dining experience. The idea started when I took my two kids to a breakfast buffet at Hotel Sri Malaysia in Taiping a week ago and I thought since my brother and his family were coming, we... Read Full Story