Jawi Pekan Cuisine – Unique to Penang, Yet So Evocative of Other Foods
By Julia Tan
December 2019 FEATURE
Along Lebuh Armenian, where the Jawi Pekan – or Jawi Peranakan – traditionally settled, is the family-run Jawi House establishment. Chef Nurilkarim Razha brings me on a brief tour of the kitchen, and the scent from the pots of simmering curries – which come in a gamut of colours: ochre, orange, vermillion, brown, you name it – makes me heady.These are scents I am familiar with, and yet there is a hint of something just a little bit different from...
Julia Tan
went to primary and secondary school at Convent Pulau Tikus before continuing sixth form at St. Xavier’s Institution; any other school was out of the question. She misses the fried rice at the school canteen, and laments the passing of the wan tan mee lady.
