Friendship and Food: Nurturing Communities through Culinary Spaces

By Liani MK

December 2022 FEATURE
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Photos by Jonathan LimSNUGGED WITHIN THE eateries and businesses that line Beach Street, an unassuming Taiwanese tea house provides an interlude from the chaos of Penang’s undecided weather.Enter Jing Si Books & Cafe and you might feel like you have crossed into a different dimension. An instant sense of serenity overcomes you in the tiny Zen garden, with delicate trails of sand designed to look like radiating ripples caught in time. The staff explains that this serves as a reminder...

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Liani MK

is an independent writer, journalist and artist whose works span areas of language, film, culture, indigeneity and migration in Southeast Asia.

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