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Essays and features about Malaysian food culture, hawker life, and the meanings around how we eat.
Browse recent food stories from The Times of Malaya.
The char kway teow uncle is 68 and his wrists hurt and his children work in offices and nobody wants to talk about what comes next.
Open at all hours, cheap enough for everyone, politically neutral enough for anyone. The mamak stall has done something that Malaysian institutions rarely manage: it belongs to everybody.
Eating alone in Malaysia is something you do, but it's also something people notice.
Every family has its version of the pot. The recipe is almost never written down.
