Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
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I find that younger food bloggers have a ‘national boundary’ of thinking Singapore vs Malaysia vs Indonesia food. Maybe the national lines are much more obvious.

But like this uncle, I have a far more porous view. My family is just as much Johorean as they are Singaporean. It’s impossible to split down the middle. So much of the food and culture is the same. Thai Chinese food is also so similar to my home food, owing to the same Chinese roots.

I was very intrigued when my mother in law told me she barely ate any Indonesian food, growing up in the north of Malaysia, whereas the south of Malaysia - Singapore - Sumatra - Java feels like an archipelago of delicious things that have all intersected. I feel so incredibly lucky to got to spend most of my life in that part of the world.

Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
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And then how that archipelago then intersects with south India and Yemen.. is even more interesting to me. I enjoyed learning that nasi mandi is basically the Yemeni dish.. mandi. I’ve spent the early parts of my life obsessively learning about all of those places and their foods and migration stories.

If there’s one book I can recommend, it’s ’The food of the Singapore Malays’. It’s a giant tome. You can injure yourself if you drop it. What a work of art.

thefoodofsingaporemalays.com/

The Food of Singapore Malays by Khir Johari

This is not a cook book. It is the unwritten story of a people. The book explores their food, not just as a means of sustenance, but as a cultural activity. Inheriting the Nusantara's rich flavours, Singapore Malays have a grand culinary heritage reflecting their worldviews, social values and histor

www.thefoodofsingaporemalays.com · The Food of Singapore Malays

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