“Nonya cuisine is an early example of fusion food, one that evolved from this integration of Malay and Hokkien food with the colonial cuisines of Portugal, the Netherlands and England,” Dr Ong Jin ...
Growing up in Penang, Nancy Lim, 59, vividly recalls the kitchen being a wonderful place where her mother, Tan Lee Lee, 80, reigned supreme. Although Tan was initially averse to her children ...
In it, Ong has tried to find out if popular food, cooking techniques, ingredients and utensils interacted to create Nonya or Peranakan cuisine. The Peranakan culture is the result of the intermarriage ...
I flipped through Nonya Flavours: A Complete Guide to Penang Straits Chinese Cuisine (2003) searching for the author only to realise that it was a collaborative effort – a collection of recipes ...