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Join Masterchef’s Billy Law on an exclusive 9-day Culinary Tour in Malaysia – he will share his personal journey in food, love and family in the country where he grew up. If I have to describe my year 2011, these are the words I can think of – random, surreal, spontaneous, hectic, life changing. Last [...]

  When in Ipoh, eat, eat, eat! I have lived by that motto for nineteen years, and I still do whenever I go back to Ipoh, that’s my hometown where I was born and grew up in Malaysia. Ipoh (ee-poh) is approximately 200km north of Kuala Lumpur, not much of a tourist destination I must [...]

Day 4. We are heading up to the Highlands. After spending two days in Kuala Lumpur and a short day trip to Melaka, we finally packed up our bags and check out the hotel, it is time for our “real” road trip and heading north to the Cameron Highlands. It’s been a while since I [...]

IPOH. I am very excited to introduce you to this month’s featured foodie, who is also a fellow Malaysian food blogger from Ipoh, my home town in Malaysia. He called himself Motormouth, a pharmacist by day, this late 20s something food blogger is always on the move, looking for all the delicious food around Ipoh [...]

Day 3. Cloudy with a chance of chicken rice balls. After two days of non-stopping eating within a close distance between Kuala Lumpur, Klang and Petaling Jaya, it’s time to leave Selangor state and venture out to look for regional food in other cities. We hop back into the car and set off for a [...]

Malaysia, the country where I was born. Despite being an Australian for over 3 years now, Malaysia is still where my root is, Ipoh is still my home town, and my whole family still lives there. Sadly I don’t go back to visit my family as often as I should, but if I do ever [...]

I slowly discover that I have complicated things, especially in cooking. Looking back at my recipe archives, most of the recipes involved a lot of ingredients and a million steps to follow, which usually half a day to prepare one dish. What happen to the simple quick toss on the wok? What’s wrong with the [...]

There are some home cookings from Malaysia that I really miss. But I am also having troubles locating a few essential ingredients even if I bother to cook that authentic dish myself. Pandan leaves for instance, it is hard to come by in the area where I live. But in Sydney, heaps of them! I [...]

I ♥ Ban Mee. Full. Stop. If you are Malaysian or Singaporean, then you probably would know what Ban Mee is. Ban Mee, also sometimes known as Min fun Kueh (麵粉粿), is a simple noodle dish usually for breakfast or lunch, and is made from two basic ingredients – plain flour and water. The noodle is [...]

I tried not to look at my holiday pictures, because it has only been three weeks since I got back from trip and I am already suffering withdrawal symptoms from all the delicious food! This afternoon I switched on the Lightroom, and spent a good hour just looking at the photos, no editing, nothing. Just [...]

Why would I want to eat spaghetti when I can have all the yummy local Malaysian delicacies? And I am always over sensitive and cautious about eating raw sashimi in a hot tropical country like Malaysia, Salmonella is not what I am looking for on the menu that’s for sure. But when they mix it [...]

HAPPY MERDEKA DAY! Today is Malaysia National Day! Of course we have to celebrate with some local food, especially street food! One of the highlights of my trip is definitely hanging out at the mamak stalls at midnight, sitting on the red plastic stool flimsy enough that will probably break and flattened in any second, [...]

A familiar sight of chefs in clinical white uniforms, complete with mouth masks; kneading dumplings away behind the aquarium glass tank. They called themselves the descendants of the “dragon” or phonetically – the “steamer basket”, as that’s what Dragon-i is famous for, steamy Xiao Long Bao. Like Din Tai Fung, Dragon-i is another restaurant chains [...]

Don’t blink. If you blink, another square of crispy suckling pig will be “y-oink”ed and vanished from the plate before you know it. Suckling pig, banquet dinner, family reunion and mum’s birthday – any excuse would do to get myself back to Malaysia for some gluttony action with the family. You know you have a [...]