Day 2 – Coconut Milk, Coconut Cream, Thick and Thin Coconut Milk, Creamed Coconut and Kerisik I’ve covered this topic to some extent in a previous blog post so check that out for the recipe for making your own coconut milk. In this Periscope broadcast, I reveal – what Malaysian recipes mean by thick and thin…
I thought I might start with an ingredient that almost everyone is familiar with, but which is nonetheless somewhat confusing. There are 3 broad types of soya (aka soy) sauce – sweet soya sauce salty soya sauce – for this exercise I’ll call it “regular soya sauce” thick soya sauce aka caramel sauce Growing up…
I guess I’d always known that there’s something of a learning curve involved as far as the topic of Asian ingredients is concerned. This became starkly evident to me when I was working on my Truly Malaysian Street Food at Home cookbook, when my American editor struggled to keep up with half the stuff in…
I remember as a kid back in my Templer Flat days in Seremban, one of my neighbours once brought a gigantic stone mill up to their 11th floor unit and set it up on their balcony. It was so heavy and our block of welfare units was so flimsy I wondered their balcony was going…
Print PDF Find out in my 9-minute video below 😉 Just to put some context into this, I spent minutes trawling through my pantry for ingredients I had on hand, I didn’t spend months writing a thesis, interviewing experts, drawing up definitive lists or stocking up for this video. In other words, if I missed your…
Print PDF ‘Must have’ in the sense that they’re what I would personally get if I were limited to only 10 items – again, depending on your own (Malaysian) cultural upbringing, you might have a vastly different list to mine. Will elaborate on these another time along with suitable recipes. As mentioned in a previous…