I did an interview with SilkAir (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Singapore Airlines) a couple of months ago and the article finally came out! If you are flying with SilkAir, you will see the feature on the Sept/Oct 2009 issue of “SilkWinds”–the inflight magazine.
There are some errors in the article: 1) they think I am a *he*, 2) wrong facts about Penang hawker food, which weren’t part of my interview with them. In any case, I can’t complain and am very proud to be featured by a very popular regional airline in Southeast Asia. What’s more, the topic is about Penang hawker food/street food that I take great passion and pride in promoting…(read the full article after the jump)
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Today, I am very happy and excited to announce the official launch of Nyonya Food at nyonyafood.com, a website that I have wanted to launch for the longest time. Nyonya food is a site that chronicles my native cuisine, the food I grew up eating–the food of my childhood. It’s also a portal about the fascinating–but hugely underrated and undiscovered–Nyonya-Baba or Peranakan culture and heritage.
If you have been following Rasa Malaysia, you know that I came from a Nyonya family as my late grandmother was a much celebrated Nyonya of her time. A few months after the successful launch of Rasa Malaysia (sometime end of 2006), I registered nyonyafood.com, with the same mission, passion, and enthusiasm I have for Rasa Malaysia. I wanted to educate the world more about the unique living culture of Nyonya-Baba or Peranakan–a sub-culture found in the British Straits settlements of Penang and Melaka (Malacca) in Malaysia, and Singapore. It was easier said than done; the domain was in dormant until very recently when I finally found time to put my vision and dream into reality…
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To say that Malaysians are talented is not an overstatement as some of the best–and most impressive–food blogs are authored by Malaysians. I am constantly amazed by the sheer talent of my fellow Malaysians, for example: Billy Law at A Table for Two. A Table for Two chronicles Billy’s eating adventures in Sydney as well [...]
Thanks to Hunter Lewis, test kitchen director at Saveur, my lettuce wraps (lettuce wrapped chicken) recipe is featured on the May issue of Saveur! Hunter emailed me that he liked my lettuce wraps recipe and would like to use it for the May issue. I practically fell out of my chair and said “YES!”
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I just found out today that Chef Al Rosas of Rosas Farm, who stole my Nobu Cod picture (please read my “Open Letter to Those Who Steal“) also stole from Haalo of Cook (Almost) Anything At Least Once, but I was mostly appalled by the reply from Erin Rosas of Rosas Farm to Cook (Almost) [...]
This is an open letter addressed to those who steal pictures, recipes, content, business idea/concept from Rasa Malaysia–you know WHO you are (and I know WHO you are):
Online e-commerce store vendors who steal my picture to pursue commercial gains
Websites who copy or syndicate my RSS feeds: blog posts, pictures, recipes without proper credit or my [...]
I am so excited that The New York Times has picked Penang, Malaysia (my hometown) as one of the 44 places to go in 2009. This is a great honor to Malaysians, especially to Penangites because–very sadly–Malaysia is not on the “tourist map” of Americans.
I have traveled extensively and have been to numerous places in [...]
This is a late acknowledgement, but thanks to Ivy Manning, Rasa Malaysia is one of the websites featured on “What we like to read, watch, click on” by FOODday staff at OregonLive.com.
Click here to read the complete article. You can check out my beef rendang recipe here, or browse through all exotic recipes on Rasa [...]
