Print PDF Q: What do Fish Balls, Fish Cake slices, Thai Fish Cakes, Otak-Otak and Yong Tau Foo (stuffed tofu & vegetables) have in common? A: They’re all made with fish paste. This recipe was taught to me by my brother CS Tang (minister of Cornerstone Presbyterian Community Church) back when I had my restaurant….
Print PDF Recipe by Hotel Jen, Penang One of the Hotel Jen recipes that didn’t make it into our video series during my recent trip there was Nasi Ulam, a herbed rice salad dish. Nasi Ulam wasn’t something I was familiar with growing up in the southern part of the Malaysian peninsula, but it is…
Considering how I live and breathe Malaysian food you could be forgiven if you thought that’s all I eat, round-the-clock. Fact of the matter is, precisely because I cook Malaysian food for a living, I rarely have any motivation to seek out Malaysian restaurants on my days off here in Sydney (it’s a different matter…
Recipe by Grand Hyatt Kuala Lumpur I knew when I shared the Curry Laksa recipe in my last post that it would be just a matter of time before those who watched the accompanying Hangout-on-Air started asking for the Popiah recipe as well >> Click to watch my Popiah and Curry Laksa Hangout-on-Air >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYe-1dr0MBU The…
Print PDF Recipe by Grand Hyatt Hotel Kuala Lumpur I’ve talked at length about the different varieties of Laksa in Malaysia and posted videos and Hangouts and recipes to cover some of them. Clearly there’s no such thing as too many laksa recipes because I’ve been asked by some of you to share the one…
Print PDF This is a segment that appeared on Hooked and Fish & Hunt Australia last season – I cooked a blackfish caught by Dave Butfield using a store-bought Malaysian curry paste; the idea being that if you’re out fishing and camping, you probably don’t want to lug around huge amounts of fresh ingredients and…
Print PDF I remember when Delia Smith’s cookbook came out back in the day and the scorn she received (in my household, to be fair) for her “How to Boil an Egg” tutorial – as we collectively ranted about its perceived redundancy – who doesn’t know how to boil an egg?! Well, call this culinary…
Print PDF The team at Four Points by Sheraton Kuching had pulled out all the stops to make our stay as comfortable as possible. As an example, although we arrived a couple of hours late due to flight delays, the entire marketing team along with Chef Liou were waiting to greet us as we pulled…
Print PDF Preamble Even before we started filming the pilot of Asia: Food.Travel.Mystery, my collaborator and co-executive producer Robb Demarest and I had planned to scout out locations in Borneo – it has all the right mixes for our series with its unique food, off-the-beaten-path travel and its intriguing and sometimes mysterious cultures. We specifically…
Print PDF It was late by the time our transport pulled up to the Ocean Wing lobby of Shangri-la Rasa Ria where our arrival was greeted with the sound of traditional gongs. There are 2 Shangri-la resorts in KK, and Rasa Ria is the secluded one 45 minutes out of town. It also has its…