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Went shopping last minute for mooncakes today. I know, Mooncake Festival is not for another week or so but these sweet pastries aren’t for me. They’re for my parents and Nic’s parents. It’s this tradition we have where we mail (yes, good old Poslaju) the solidly wrapped mooncakes in their steel tins to our parents …

“You like Penang?” A friend once asked. I guess I do. I didn’t spend much of my growing up years here but I spent almost all of my school holidays in Penang when I was younger. There’s something about Penang which is charming although the traffic can be crazy at times. But Sundays are good …

“You know, cooking with you is different,” Best Friend says, in between observing me chopping up tomatoes for the tomato salsa we were preparing. “Why?” I look up in surprise. I know Best Friend is rather hesitant in the kitchen, and she sticks to dishes she can cook. Give her a new recipe and her …

Yes, folks. There is a Part 5. The concluding one in this whole Cherating series. A reader (eh hem) and close pal asked me this when I met him last week. What’s in Part 5, he asks? Well, the food part. But of course. Food features heavily in my life. I suppose it’s natural considering …

Chicken rice is very Malaysian. Everyone eats chicken rice (except of course if you are vegetarian) when: 1) they do not know what to order for lunch/dinner 2) they want something substantial (and in Malaysian terms, that means filling and what can be more filling than having rice?) 3) they want to compare chicken rice …

I’ve never been very much impressed with Korean food. Aside kimchi, I cannot for the life of me remember what else is authentically Korean. Plus, I don’t take beef. So it seemed that Korean food wasn’t much to rave about until I had to figure out a place to bring my 23-year-old cousin on her …