Recipes & Cooking

Ayam Masak Merah (Chicken in Spicy Tomato Sauce)

Ayam Masak Merah (Chicken in Spicy Tomato Sauce)

Tomorrow is Hari Raya or Eid, the biggest Muslim holiday that marks the end of Ramadan, or the Islamic holy month of fasting. As a Malaysian, we celebrate all festivities (regardless of our race and ethnicity) with food, food, and more food, and that’s why I invited one of my favorite Malaysian food bloggers Lisa at My Lemony Kitchen to…

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Sambal Telur Recipe (Egg Sambal)

Sambal Telur Recipe (Egg Sambal)

Sambal—precisely cooked sambal—is a notably versatile and robust component in traditional Malaysian cooking. It’s the building block of many scrumptious and colorful Malay and Nyonya dishes and marries well with wide array of ingredients: seafood, tofu, eggs, and vegetables. Once you master the skill of making a great sambal, you can prepare numerous variations of lusciously addictive sambal-laden dishes, for…

Grilled Fish with Banana Leaf

Grilled Fish with Banana Leaf

This is the grilled fish recipe that I am reluctant to share. Why? Because it’s so darn good and perfect. I secretly wanted to stash my hand written Malaysian grilled fish recipe somewhere and hoping that one day, a mega chef like Jean-Georges Vongerichten would pay me $10,000 for this precious recipe. But I am a nice person; I love…

Soto Ayam Recipe

Soto Ayam Recipe

Please welcome my friend F at Salt N Turmeric to Rasa Malaysia today as she shares her killer recipe of Soto Ayam with us. Soto Ayam is basically chicken soup and it’s very popular in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. There are various adaptations of Soto Ayam in the region but Salt N Turmeric’s version is simply scrumptious. If you wish…

Cucur Udang (Prawn Fritters) Recipe

Cucur Udang (Prawn Fritters) Recipe

A few months ago, I introduced Malay cooking to you via this post. Today, I am very glad to have Mastura of Foodilicious on board as a guest writer, a talented Penang food blogger and photographer who cooks beautiful and sinfully delicious Malay food and more. On Foodilicious, Mastura shares mom-daughter Malaysian home cooking, street food, baking, and restaurant dining….

Beef Rendang Recipe (Rendang Daging)

Beef Rendang Recipe (Rendang Daging)

I am sure many of my readers in Malaysia and Singapore have been wondering why haven’t I posted a beef rendang or “rendang daging” recipe? Good news, the wait is finally over and here is my recipe of arguably the most famous beef dish in Malaysia, Indonesia, and Singapore. Beef rendang is of Indonesian origin–a much-celebrated recipe from the Minangkabau…

Introducing Nasi Melayu (Malay Cooking)

Introducing Nasi Melayu (Malay Cooking)

As a Malaysian food blog, I really haven’t done a good job in introducing my readers about Malay-style cooking, which is essentially the main cuisine type in Malaysia as the ethnic Malays make up about 2/3 of Malaysia’s total population. So, today, I am going to introduce you to Nasi Melayu (literally means “Malay rice”) or the cooking of the…