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Aunty Franklee, Hawthorn

  • by Sonia Nair
  • Posted on June 9, 2019June 30, 2019

Aunty Franklee serves a small selection of some famous Malaysian food exports but also other lesser known dishes like ‘thunder tea rice’ and ‘mother hen soup’, expanding the popular conception of what Malaysian food is.

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Sunda, Melbourne

  • by Sonia Nair
  • Posted on March 11, 2019March 11, 2019

I knew what I’d come here for, and yes you guessed right – the roti with vegemite curry.

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Red Hot Wok, South Yarra

  • by Sonia Nair
  • Posted on August 19, 2018August 26, 2018

If I had to choose three cuisines to survive on for the rest of my life – I think about this important question a lot – Chinese Malaysian would be one of them, and so I was highly excited when Gingko Leaf Girl suggested we try Red Hot Wok, a Chinese Malaysian restaurant in South Yarra.

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Hawker Hall, Windsor

  • by Sonia Nair
  • Posted on March 25, 2018March 25, 2018

I’d resisted going to Hawker Hall for the longest time because I am highly sceptical of hawker centres that a) aren’t in Asia and b) charge you $19 for a Hainanese chicken rice.

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Sarawak Kitchen Express, Melbourne

  • by Sonia Nair
  • Posted on May 14, 2017May 21, 2017

There are plenty of Malaysian dishes that Australians are well acquainted with, but economy rice isn’t one of them.

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Sarawak Kitchen, Melbourne

  • by Sonia Nair
  • Posted on April 9, 2017April 9, 2017

Having encountered minimal success with Malaysian food in Melbourne after more than a decade of living here, I’d resigned myself to enjoying the dishes of my childhood when a) I visit my parents or b) fly home for my annual food pilgrimage. That is, until I found Sarawak Kitchen.

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The Old Raffles Place, Collingwood

  • by Sonia Nair
  • Posted on November 27, 2016December 4, 2016

I’ve never really understood what ‘Singaporean’ food means. It’s akin to Tasmania seceding from the mainland and selling Australian food under the moniker ‘Tasmanian food’.

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When you’re histamine- and lactose-intolerant as well as lacking a somewhat vital organ such as a gallbladder, everything floats your bloat – tomatoes, eggplant, mature cheeses (so most good cheeses), wine, spinach, almond milk, every form of preserved meat (yes, that includes bacon), that little bit of ghee your mum slips into her dahl to make it taste all the better.

Bloat Scores

0 Living the dream

1 Had to loosen my belt a notch

2 The belt had to be completely removed

3 I could have balanced a glass of wine on my bloated stomach

4 If I were lying prostrate on my tummy, it would have looked as though I was levitating

5 So full of gas I floated home like a hot air balloon

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