Malaysia's Nyonya Food

Nyonya Cuisine (Peranakan food) is a blend of Chinese and Malay cooking styles, that originates from the Peranakans or Baba and Nyonya (or Nonya) of Malaysia and Singapore. This cuisine is unique to Malaysia and Singapore. Today the food of the communities that are found mainly in Penang, Kedah, Singapore and Melaka

Visitors to Penang, Melaka or Singapore should check out some Nyonya Dishes, such a below:

• Acar Awak - Pickled vegetables of carrots, long beans, cucumber, etc, cooked with ginger, turmeric, garlic and vinegar (photo)


• Acar Ikan - Pickled Fish; small fried fish soaked in sauce of oil, tamarind, garlic


• Nasi Ulam - rice mixed with vegetables, a variety of local aromatic herbs, grounded salted fish, desiccated coconut, etc.


• Inchee Kay Bin - Chicken spiced with curry paste and deep fried

check out more Nyonya food and Recipies at http://food.mymalaysiabooks.com/

or at food pages at http://www.mymalaysiabooks.com/recipe/food.htm

School Holiday Destinations

Wondering where to go in Malaysia? Why not check out these World Heritage sites in Malaysia. To fellow Malaysian, it may be just a day trip or one or two nights stay at budget hotels.

Malaysia's Heritage Site:

• George Town, Penang
• Melaka City
• Mulu, Sarawak
• Langkawi Geopark

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Chang Festival or Dragon Boat Festival

The Dragon Boat Festival or Chang Festival fall on 28 May this year (2009 )

The Chang Festival marks the death of a Chinese poet and scholar Qu Yuan who drowned in 296 BC in Hunan province in China . When people heard of his disappearance, they scoured the river in boats to rescue him, beating their drums to scare off the fishes from nibbling at his body. Unable to find his body, they made glutinous rice dumplings wrapped in bamboo leaves and threw them into the river in the hope that the fishes would eat these dumplings instead of his remains. Boats were decorated with dragon heads on their bows.


This festival falls on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese lunar calendar. The tradition of making dumplings (called 'chang') is celebrated by the Chinese community in Malaysia with the offering of the dumplings to the gods and their ancestors. The festival is celebrated in Penang annually with an international dragon boat competition which is immensely popular and attracts participants from all over the world.

• Chang Recipe / Chinese Dumpling Recipe at myFood domain
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