Food Type: Chinese Category

Several years back, my friend, Jo, invited me over to her family home in Kampar to celebrate Chinese New Year.    I have loads of memories of Kampar; it was always one of our pitstops during our cross country travels in the old days.  Pa and Ma used to do a bit of their dating […]

I’m fraught with guilt at the thought of blogging about food at a time like this.  Freedom of expression has taken a completely new meaning in our country.  My friend, Joan, quoted this passage in her article in The Malaysian Insider, and I’ve taken the liberty to reproduce the passage here: “Hell is a world […]

Once upon a time, there lived a young female mitten crab named Sally.   She was a tiny little crustacean, less than 10 centimetres wide, and had pincers covered with dense patches of hair.   Thankfully, Brazilians were not the vogue for females like Sally, and she reveled in her hirsuteness.   She laughed and […]

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Food, for me, is a means to an end and not an end in itself.

Food, for me, represents the love of family, the fellowship of friends, and the community and communality it brings.