I spent most of last week making rempah (spice pastes) and kueh for a private chef gig I was doing. Whenever I do this, I find myself wondering if there’s anyone within a hundred miles doing the same thing – peeling a hillock of shallots, gutting chilis, toasting
Lovely to hear about this kueh-making on the other side of the world. There's always some nostalgia in the way you describe food and the process of cooking them. Familiarity that I never really experienced myself but only heard of through stories and perhaps TV shows of the past.
Your conversions of the variety of units also remind me of an idea I had for a recipe app powered by AI to convert ounces and mili-somethings into grams because I keep Google open while cooking to convert units - more than I wish to 😂 just an idea for now, but pain points are there to be solved 🙃 i.e extracting the actual step by step and ingredients list from prose of a blog post..
Lovely to hear about this kueh-making on the other side of the world. There's always some nostalgia in the way you describe food and the process of cooking them. Familiarity that I never really experienced myself but only heard of through stories and perhaps TV shows of the past.
Your conversions of the variety of units also remind me of an idea I had for a recipe app powered by AI to convert ounces and mili-somethings into grams because I keep Google open while cooking to convert units - more than I wish to 😂 just an idea for now, but pain points are there to be solved 🙃 i.e extracting the actual step by step and ingredients list from prose of a blog post..