Food

Blog: Meeting an old friend in Langkawi

View of the beach from the kooky Dash Resort Langkawi on Pantai Tengah. Picture by yours truly. When I was last in Langkawi I was not...

Blog: Bedugul, a lush part of Bali rarely visited by tourists

Like migratory birds, around October each year my husband and I would travel to Ubud in Bali for our annual break. This year we tried a...

Blog: Mooks Thai Bistro food review

Authentic and reasonably-priced Thai food haunts are increasing in numbers, although not particularly easy to find outside of the Golden...

Blog: Why I cycled in Penang

When I returned to George Town, Penang this year, I conducted some of my explorations on a rented bicycle. These are my adventures....

Blog: Cleverness that delivers

For a long time for me, molecular gastronomy is something that should remain in the lab and not on my plate. Sometimes referred to as...

Blog: Of Ramadan buffets and the primitive brain

As a child, I was a picky and difficult eater. My father took huge pains to train me to clean my plate, whether I liked the food or not,...

Book Excerpts: Of Displacement and Ramadan

The prospect of transforming an old Tanjong Pagar shophouse into a home preoccupied my thoughts as much as the sad dearth of Hari Raya’s...

Blog: Nosh in George Town

In Penang’s George Town, food is cheap and in great abundance; there are all manners of food establishments from roadside hawker stalls,...