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Apr 16, 2009 | Post by: Phil Lees 2 Comments

Parachute Foodblogging 2: Restoran Nasi Kandar KL

Kuala Lumpur is the perfect town for stopover eating: parachuting into town for the few hours between flights. I’ve done it once before but this time was a bit more of a nostalgia trip. For me, breakfast in KL is synonymous with nasi kandar; Malaysian Tamil Muslim food from a

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Feb 22, 2008 | Post by: Phil Lees No Comments

Five Links on Friday: 22 February 2008

Food Trend: Seaborne Chefs – Marco Pierre White hits the high seas, rented out by P&O Cruises Intestines in Coca Cola – Great Vietnamese offal recipe (in Vietnamese) Rachael at Thus Bakes Zarathustra wants to glass Jamie Oliver – and I want to watch. Food Trends: Malaysia’s Roti Boy and

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Feb 07, 2008 | Post by: Phil Lees 7 Comments

The last ditch

Saturday night market in Little India, Kuala Lumpur If you could choose your last meal in a country, what would it be? It’s a much more concrete question than some imagined last supper: unless you’re on death row or about to commit suicide then chances are you’ll have no power

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Dec 17, 2007 | Post by: Phil Lees No Comments

Three feet high and rising

Cook me a roti three feet high then slather it in honey and condensed milk. No, really. The above roti tisu (occasionally, “roti tissue”) is both the silliest and tallest thing that I’ve ever attempted to eat and succeeded. It came from the roti grill of Kayu Nasi Kandar, my

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Dec 15, 2007 | Post by: Phil Lees No Comments

How to eat an island

Roti chanai and kopi (coffee) Sitting at a breakfast of roti canai and kopi, you start to wonder if the roti could be flakier, less oily. If a few more layers of the papery pastry was possible. If only you’d stopped at the neighbouring nasi kandar vendor who will give

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