Nasi Lemak Ayam Taliwang
When I started writing on my blog long ago, one of the first things I often wrote about was on food. It was also a lamentation about losing our food culture especially our hawker fare. K F Seetoh and Professor Tommy Koh also mentioned it later. Our hawker food begin even before I was born but as a young child, I saw how it has evolved. We were poor, people need to feed their family and those who could cook started peddling food as hawkers. Some set up push cart stalls with a few wooden tables and chairs, others peddle from door to door and there were some who would carry their stoves for hot water, gravy with their condiments, plates and bowls in two crates balancing them on a wooden pole and walked around the neighbourhood. All hawkers prepared everything for their food - from gravy to shallots and their chilli sauce, etc. They do not buy them ready-made as there was no such things those days. The tik-tok noodle seller was the original Deliveroo or Food Panda as he...