Stories and recipes from a Malaysian home kitchen
Dear God, how much I adore falafel but how difficult they can be to get right! After more attempts that I can count, I finally got them perfectly crunchy, golden brown and mad delicious, WITHOUT deep frying too. It took quite a bit of experimentation (read: failed attempts). The hardest part was getting the balls…
If you’ve attended a Malaysian national school, you would have fond memories of mee goreng makcik kantin. Or as some of us call it, mee kosong. Because this type of fried noodles was really, literally “kosong” (empty): hardly any vegetables, no meat to speak of, not even egg, the cheapest of proteins. But somehow the…
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…
