Jackie M Crew Photoshoot
Hastily-arranged photoshoot involving some of the Jackie M Crew. Special thanks to the uber-talented Ian Chow and his beautiful wife Cindy for making time to take the photos.

Some of you might remember the days when I used to run Google Hangouts-on-Air weekly, where I taught my audience how to cook Malaysian food via Live video. You can still watch replays of these broadcasts on my YouTube channel – I was one of the pioneers of using Live video as a platform to do…

I attended ACS (Anglo-Chinese School) in Kindergarten. I’d been raised speaking Hakka within the family, and Cantonese among the neighbourhood kids. The teacher spoke Cantonese to me. I remember a boy, Bernard Wong, taking a liking to me and bringing me candy every day. We hung out. Then one day, he started getting obnoxious. I think he’d…

Update 12 Jan 2024: One of my followers alerted me to the fact that the video that was originally embedded in this blog post was displaying that it was “no longer available” – I’m going to put it down to an attempt at housecleaning my YouTube channel content that went awry sometime back. Nonetheless, I…

When I first arrived in Australia in 1984 my experience of curries in this country consisted of North Indian-style yoghurt-based varieties and those starchy-looking sliced onion-dense yellow dishes from suburban Chinese restaurants. I was surprised last week when I found out via this piece in The Conversation – https://theconversation.com/from-curried-wombat-to-rendang-and-doro-wat-a-brief-history-of-curry-in-australia-150370 – that curries in Australia in…

As someone who’s run a Malaysian food business for decades, I’m always trying to strike a balance between maintaining “authentic” flavours while cutting down on time spent in the kitchen (thanks to labour costs and staff shortage issues). My friends at MyBlueTea.com.au recently sent me some samples of their natural pandan powder (made from pure…

Print PDF I’m going to be doing 3 of my favourite activities this coming weekend. All at the same time. I love travel, and I’m travelling to Melbourne courtesy of Tourism Malaysia Australia. Everyone knows about my passion for Malaysian cooking, and I’ll be doing that while I’m there. The other thing I like…