A Snack Well Worth Waiting For
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It tastes best when cooked with charcoal.Made from a simple base of flour and eggs, ban chien kuih is a popular Hokkien delicacy. It comes with a flavours...
Tastes of India, from North and South
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Northern and southern Indian cuisines are celebrated for their distinctive cooking styles and skilful blend of spices. In northern India, most food varieties ar...
The Legacy of Taste
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There are some things in life that never change. Taste is one: a dish from childhood – the certain way a char siu is marinated and barbecued to the perfec...
Our Food Draws the Crowd!
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IntroductionPenang is one of the must-visit cities in Malaysia. Findings from Agoda’s Travel and Tech Study show that domestic travel in Malaysia surged...
A Nourishing Canvas
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Food sustains body and soul. In art, especially in the depiction of fruits, it is as resplendent as still-life with all the stylistic métiers, and is use...
Butterworth Food Trail
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Nasi Lemak Warung Kak Sadiah Sri Bandar Market Taman Bagan Baru, 12000 Butterworth Time: 5.30am-9.30am Closed on MondaysKak Sadiah started selling nasi...
A Whiter Shade of Apricot
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With its unique aroma, which may not be everyone’s cup of tea, heng jin teh has been a Penang favourite for decades and is usually taken together with eu...
You Can Eat Healthy in Penang
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Penang is deservedly famous for its street food, but street food is not especially famous for being healthy. As obesity and diabetes become more prevalent in th...
Bringing World Cuisine to Penang
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Much of Penang’s appeal lies in the myriad types of cuisine available there. Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Syrian, Lebanese, Italian, American, German and Fr...
Taste, in Words
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Laparpo: Popularising Halal FoodPenang’s food-blogging scene abounds – naturally – with passionate subject-matter experts. Penang TuaPui and...
Slow Food is Good Food
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In 1986 a protest against the opening of a McDonald’s near Rome’s Spanish Steps took place. Carlo Petrini led the campaign against the founding of t...
Talk about Market Forces!
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We all remember waking up early in the morning as kids to accompany our mothers to the neighbourhood wet market, treading on slippery floors (especially if you&...