The Sensual Art of Nyonya Cuisine

by | Feb 22, 2017 | Journal

The Sensual Art of Nyonya Cuisine I’ve come to talk to Carol SelvaRajah about her recently released food memoir, Dining with Dragons. SelvaRajah grew up surrounded by Nyonya cooking at her childhood home in Klang, Malaysia, and is an expert in this unique...

Kong Hee Fatt Choy!

by | Feb 5, 2017 | Journal

Kong Hee Fatt Choy! I was running late for my appointment with Carol SelvaRajah, one of Australia’s leading exponents of Nonya and Malaysian cooking. When I arrived, she was on the phone to her brother in Kuala Lumpur, Dr Abel Arumugam. She opened the front door,...

Endangered Cuisines: Yogyakarta’s Gudeg

by | Nov 3, 2016 | Journal

Endangered Cuisines: Yogyakarta’s Gudeg Food is a wonderful vehicle for discovering a country and learning about history, culture, and the always-evolving relationship between the edible elements of the landscape and the development of local identities. As the...

Yogya Delights

by | Oct 9, 2016 | Journal

Yogya Delights It’s mid-morning by the time we leave the Sultan’s Palace in Yogjakarta and head out of town. Driving through the busy streets of this bustling university city of three and a half million people in Central Java, Indonesia, is no easy feat and I’m...

New Bali, Beyond Bali

by | Sep 30, 2016 | Journal

New Bali, Beyond Bali We were lucky to fly out of Bali on Monday.  If it had been Tuesday, we’d have been stranded along with hundreds of others (including many Aussie kids on school holidays) at Ngurah Rai International Airport south of the capital, Denpasar. Mt...