rice porridge for breakfast: congee, juk or babur

rice porridge for breakfast: congee, juk or babur I'm up with the birds this morning, together with Mia, my elderly cat, who meows imper...

tamarind and honey prawns (assam prawns)

 tamarind and honey prawns (assam prawns) I've used Malaysian tastes for my influence with this marinade. Nothing could be simpler, just...

malaysian crispy prawn fritters (cucur udang) with a sweet chilli dipping sauce

malaysian crispy prawn fritters (cucur udang) with a sweet chilli dipping sauce There are many food bloggers who have a specific focus. Whil...

kaya toast: a weird but wonderful breakfast of champions!

kaya toast with soy eggs It's not really weird, although it might sound a bit odd to English tastes. It's a Singapore-Malaysian thin...

sambal belacan

sambal belacan I have mentioned before my love of sambal , a spicy chilli condiment hailing from Malaysia and Indonesia. In the past year or...

a fabulous tangy malaysian curry: kari kapitan

kari kapitan Kari Kapitan (or Captain's Curry or Ayam Kapitan) is a classic Nyonya recipe from Penang in Malaysia and is the perfect com...

dragons' eggs (or chinese tea eggs)

chinese tea eggs My family was divided as to what the strange, mottled boiled eggs that were sold at various corner grocers shops and hawker...

malaysian chicken satay

malaysian chicken satay Campbell Road in downtown Kuala Lumpur in the 1970s was where the best hawker food was. It was where my father and I...

egg sambal (malaysian spicy eggs)

egg sambal I don't have a bucket list . If I did, it would be more likely to be a big, fat cauldron - a list of fabulous things that I m...

in memory of my father: seafood laksa lemak (malaysian spicy coconut noodle soup)

seafood laksa lemak (malaysian spicy coconut noodle soup) If you are regular reader of this blog, you will know that I often talk about my f...

an easy vegetarian curry (pea, egg and potato)

pea, egg and potato curry I arrived at University several decades ago with a box of books, a suitcase of vintage clothing and a complete ina...

celebrate chinese new year with dragon cookies (loong peng)

dragon cookies (loong peng) When Malaysian Chinese people found out that I was born in the Year of the Dragon , they cooed and petted me. ...

nasi goreng (malaysian fried rice)

nasi goreng It's not often that I turn from mild-mannered cook by day into my foodie crime-fighting alter-ego; righting food wrongs with...

and now for something completely different: Malaysian steamed layer cake - kuih lapis

kuih lapis (Malaysian layer cake) Malaysian cakes and desserts are often tooth-achingly sweet, but this one is so pretty that it is hard to...