From the category archives:
I created four recipes for the newly launched InSing portal in Singapore (my first paid assignment) and you can see the food porn above. The recipes are:
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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!”
Saveur has always been my favorite magazine and the only food magazine that I really read. Saveur is a treasure with stories, features, and articles about savoring a world of authentic cuisine. You won’t find any glammed-up food photography or pretentious culinary trends on Saveur; it’s about real food that real people eat. If you have been following me, you will know that I am a firm believer in preserving our heritage and authenticity…
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(Picture courtesy of my best friend Craft Passion)
Thanks to my friend EC, I was featured in a full-page interview on Kwong Wah (光华日报), the oldest and one of the largest Chinese newspapers in Malaysia. Founded in Penang, Kwong Wah is the newspaper that I read growing up so it’s an honor to be profiled in the “非常人物” (loosely translate to “Outstanding People”) column.
I was actually going to post a translated version but Google translate is simply absurd, hilarious, and makes no sense. It also does no justice to this beautifully and eloquently written Chinese article. Other than talking about Rasa Malaysia, I also touched on culinary tourism and urged Malaysian Tourism Board and state agencies to continue to invest in promoting Malaysia as a culinary tourism destination. Only through careful preservation and cultivation that the colorful and authentic cuisines and food traditions of Malaysia will thrive and live on…
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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 the world, but Penang always holds a very special place in my heart. Penang is home; it’s also a place with many unique offerings: heritage (Georgetown, Penang is a UNESCO World Heritage Site), food, nature, culture, sun, and more…
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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 [...]
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While Asia is the best place to savor some of the freshest seafood, I encountered some weird ones recently in Sai Kung, Hong Kong (a mecca for seafood lovers).
Alive, moving and slimy feeling sea cucumber. I have tasted dried sea cucumber, but not a slug like this…(view more weird and creepy sea creatures after the [...]
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I’ve just come back from a fun-filled trip to Tokyo, it was a blast! I had been to Tokyo a few times before, but this trip was definitely the best trip by far with great company and totally cool people, you know, sometimes everything just comes into place and it feels magical.
Tokyo is such a [...]
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