Print PDF Sambal Belacan, a simple, quick and easy recipe. Subscribe for more Malaysian cooking tips, recipes and secrets: www.youtube.com/JackieM This shortcut method to make Sambal Belacan is the same recipe I use in my business, and it is extremely popular among my customers. INGREDIENTS USED: 400 g fried shallots 600 ml water 2 Tbsp…
Pasembur (aka mamak or Indian rojak) is a signature Penang salad with a sweet potato-based sauce, that I used to enjoy a long time ago in my Seremban hometown. The wet market in the centre of town had a stall that sold it (and may still do after 30 years, for all I know) and…
Print PDF Kapitan Chicken Curry is one of the more popular dishes in my range of frozen Prepared Meals, but as anyone who’s watched any of the cooking videos on my YouTube Channel would know, I’m a big believer in shortcuts; I’m the first to admit a lot of liberties are taken with my recipes….
Print PDF When I gave up my IT career back in 2002 to get into “this food thing” – as it’s disparagingly referred to by some in my family- it wasn’t out of any altruistic reason so much as it was a way for me to recreate my memories of Malaysia through its food. A…
Print PDF More than a year after I closed my Malaysian restaurant, and even after disconnecting my landlines and cancelling all call redirection services, I still get tracked down by determined diners trying to make table reservations. I also get a lot of enquiries about cooking classes – thanks to my busy schedule however, they’re…
Print PDF They say necessity is the mother of invention and that’s kind of how “Breakfast Roti” – one of the signature menu items at my markets, came about. For the uninitiated, it consists of Roti Canai (Malaysian flaky pancake) served with Kaya (Pandan and Coconut Jam). Fun fact – “Breakfast Roti” ie. “Roti Canai…
Print PDF Pretty much every time I post something, haterz (yes, with a “z”) come out of the woodwork to complain about this or that aspect of my content, and I can’t imagine this will be any different. To pre-empt some of this, I’m going to come out and say the following about my Otak-Otak…
Print PDF The great Malaysian north-south culinary divide comes into play with this dish, which I, as a Seremban-southerner grew up knowing simply as Hokkien Mee. It wasn’t until many years after leaving Malaysia that I was made aware that Hokkien Mee in KL-Seremban meant something quite different to Hokkien Mee in the northern state…
Print PDF There are lots of cendol recipes out there, but the technique, which usually involves scraping cooked batter through a colander, always meant I ended up with stumpy bits rather than green worms. This was until Johari, my fellow ex-Malaysian and glorified trolley pusher (as he himself described his then-job as a flight attendant)…
Print PDF I feel the need to reiterate this because unlike my online followers, most of my “real world” customers still think “restaurant” and not much else when they think of me, despite my Concord establishment having closed for nearly a year now – but one of my many activities is to run regular Google…