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Letter To A Student In China
Awhile back, I was contacted online by a Chinese student who wanted to tell Noah’s story as part of a school assignment. I’m resharing my letter here because I’m a big fan of repurposing content, plus it’s a good opportunity for me to point my audience to my other website – babyNoah.com.au – which is…
The Fortune Teller
According to my dad, mom planned on having four kids. This pic shows the four oldest kids – and that would have been it – neither I nor half my siblings would have existed. Then my mom visited a fortune teller. He told her he could see her husband marrying a second, younger wife in…
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10 Cambodian Foods That Will Make You Fall In Love With Khmer Cooking
It was my first morning in Siem Reap, on my first ever trip to Cambodia. I knew no-one except a handful of staff I’d met the evening before at the hotel. I couldn’t speak one word of Khmer, and I was still trying to wrap my head around the local currency – I had converted…
Why My Food Is Not “Authentic”, And Why I Don’t Care
One of the measures of whether a restaurant’s food is good is whether it’s “authentic” — a term that’s a particular favourite of armchair food critics the world over. Now, as a former Malaysian restaurateur and professional cook, I’ve received my fair share of accolades and criticisms about my own food over the last 27 years. I…
Introducing Miss Fay Khoo…
Print PDF As a cook/ex-restaurateur who’s copped my fair share of bad write-ups, I’m naturally predisposed to eyeing food reviewers with a healthy (some would argue unhealthy) dose of cynicism. Don’t tell anyone, but I secretly rate them on a scale from – “mildly annoying” to, well, – “food blogger” 😉 With that kind of…
Food Fame – Auria Abraham, AKA New York’s Sambal Lady
You know a Malaysian product is good when even Malaysians rave about it. I’d heard about Auria’s Malaysian Kitchen’s famous sambal, but did not at first realise The Sambal Lady and I had a lot in common. First of all, Auria and I both went to the same high school back in Malaysia – Convent…
