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Candlenut
Candlenut Bahasa Melayu: buah keras or kemiri. An oil-rich nut commonly used as an ingredient in rempah and sometimes in sambal. They’re mildly toxic…
Jul 21
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Buah keluak
Hullo to readers old and new! I just got back to Cambridge after the best part of a month on the road – a travelogue of sorts will unfold over the…
Jul 20
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no. 92: thirst made visible
Hullo to readers old and new! This essay originally ran in Scope of Work last week, and I wanted to publish it here as well, because I thought it was an…
Jul 14
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no. 91: food as infrastructure
Back in February, I wrote a piece for Vittles on the history of hawker centres in Singapore, which contained the line “hawker centres are…
Jul 7
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Pandan
Hullo to readers old and new! This is the Cambridge, MA Companion to Singaporean Food, a weekly, ongoing series about all those words I italicize in…
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June 2024
no. 90: competing with denny's
Hullo to readers old and new! This is in the tradition of “I couldn’t write a short letter, so I wrote you a long one,” but it’s not even that long. I…
Jun 30
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Chicken rice
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Jun 28
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Kopitiam
Hullo to readers old and new! This is the second weekly entry in the Cambridge, MA Companion to Singaporean Food, an ongoing series about all those…
Jun 21
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no. 89: an offering
Jon said to me, a few months ago, “you really need a glossary, I don’t know what three-quarters of these things you’re talking about are, I just know…
Jun 16
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no. 88: nothing but a flood of green
It has been a damn fine salad season already, and it’s only May. That fact makes the summer stretch ahead like a school holiday, endless with the…
Jun 2
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no. 87: street corner high
I have a recurring dream in which Mama’s Too is my neighborhood pizza joint. In this dream my diet involves a lot more pizza than it should, but that’s…
May 19
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nine layers
With apologies to folks elsewhere, this is mostly a pop-up announcement, but it’s also a fragment of what’s probably my first memory of kueh. It’s been…
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