Stories and recipes from a Malaysian home kitchen
Here are 10 Ipoh Cafes that opened in the last 6 months – half of them are in Old Town! I have personally visited them to have a drink at least, not simply copy paste from the internet ok!! 1. Jias By GirafFood – Western & Malaysian food, including simply the best nasi lemak I’ve…
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I’ve passed D North Star ‘s unassuming frontage a million times but never bothered to check the restaurant out, because our goal is to withdraw money from Maybank Canning Garden Ipoh next door. Zip and go. A few weeks ago when I was by myself, I felt a sudden stab of curiosity and went in….
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I’ve been curious about Jason Nyonya House for a while. We must have passed it at least half a dozen times because it’s near my husband’s nanny’s house. However, we never really got round to trying it out as Nanny always cooks for us. Then a few weeks ago, a most serendipitous incident led us…
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Becoming rich and famous was not on KP Kwan’s mind when he set up his Youtube channel Taste of Asian food in 2016. He merely wanted to create an archive for recipes that he developed for Bakeroni, a neighbourhood café he runs in Taman Desa, Kuala Lumpur, with his wife Moi Ching. But fate had…
What my first catering job taught me about organizational efficiency A few weeks ago, I uploaded a recipe post for a roasted peppers potato salad. The first comment was from Rachel Ang, who declared she loves potato salad. Our banter went on for a bit, until she posted this jaw-dropper: “That looks delicious! I was…
Four Malaysian men who cook actively share their formative experiences and kitchen tips they’ve picked up along the way. Cook for passion? It didn’t quite start out that way for my friends Vemanna Appannah, Kenny Fong, Rahmat Shazi and Choen Lee. One was conscripted as “free labour” in his sister’s home science experiments. Another was…
On 29th May 2020 – right smack in the middle of MCO – Chef Ang Ling Chee found himself quarantined in a hotel after returning from a trip to Japan to see his family. As head chef and co-owner of popular restaurant Parklife, Chef Ling was not used to sitting around doing nothing. A few…
So recently, something exciting happened: I did my very first podcast!! Stev Yong, former IT manager turned financial consultant, invited me to speak about www.cookwithipohbunny.com on My Personal Finances, the award-winning financial education education platform he founded. What has personal finances got to do with a food website? Personally, the MCO forced me to confront…
I was doing my usual lurking at the lively Global Malaysian Makan Minum Network FB Group when a photo stopped me short in my e-tracks. “What a gorgeous looking bowl of hokkien mee!” I thought. My mouth watered at the sight of succulent prawns swimming in an appetizing bowl of noodle soup topped with a…
When Covid19 hit, Sam Lau of Artisan Handmade Bread was forced to return to his baking roots – but not all’s gloom and doom. “Come come, Alex, you must try some sourdough from this young man.” My ears pricked up. Sourdough was starting to trend in Kuala Lumpur, but I had not heard the word…
What’s a must-have during Hari Raya? To the people of Perak, the best part of the celebration is rendang tok. Once reserved for Perak royalty, the delicacy is exalted for its sweet, robust taste and deep, dark flavours. The meat is slowly cooked in coconut milk and some 20 different herbs and spices for 4-…
Like many small businesses, popular comfort food purveyor Charlie’s Cafe was hit hard by COVID19. As captain of the ship, owner-founder Desonny Tuzan had people to take care of and he knew, in order to survive, he could no longer do business as normal. Here’s what he did to save the business that he and…
In a moment of insanity, I enrolled in a cooking class. And passed with flying colours, at least according to Kak Linda, head chef and cooking tutor at Sarang Cookery 🙂 It all started when hubs and I went to Sarang, a Nyonya restaurant in Pudu, Kuala Lumpur, for dinner. The food was outstandingly authentic….
So this is going to be a story about website building. Well, there’s a reason I used the slug “Stories” to cover all kinds of stories, cooking or not cooking related 🙂 I faced a dilemma before I built the website. Do I hire someone to do it, or do it myself? After consulting a…
I couldn’t believe my eyes when my mum sent me this photo via whatsapp. What shocked me was not the fact that she *knows* how to send a photo. She learned that some time back. What made my jaw drop was the fact that she sent me a picture of her COOKING. She cooked lunch….
