Nonya Cooking

Nonya Cooking
Author: Terry Tan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 172
Release: 1996
Genre: Cookery
ISBN: 9789812046826

This book includes the best-loved, tried and tested Nonya recipes collected by experienced food expert, Terry Tan, through the years in this updated version of 'Straits Chinese Cooking'. Includes recipes for rich Peranakan goodies like Penang Asam Laksa, Nasi Kuning, Babi Pong Teh and more.

Urban Food Culture

Urban Food Culture
Author: Cecilia Leong-Salobir
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2019-04-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137516917

This book explores the food history of twentieth-century Sydney, Shanghai and Singapore within an Asian Pacific network of flux and flows. It engages with a range of historical perspectives on each city’s food and culinary histories, including colonial culinary legacies, restaurants, cafes, street food, market gardens, supermarkets and cookbooks, examining the exchange of goods and services and how the migration of people to the urban centres informed the social histories of the cities’ foodways in the contexts of culinary nationalism, ethnic identities and globalization. Considering the recent food history of the three cities and its complex narrative of empire, trade networks and migration patterns, this book discusses key aspects of each city’s cuisine in the twentieth century, examining the interwoven threads of colonialism and globalization. ​

Asian Cook

Asian Cook
Author: Terry Tan
Publisher: Viking
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2010
Genre: Cooking, Asian
ISBN: 9780670074501

With more than 150 recipes, Terry Tan's Asian Cook is a must for anyone wanting to create delicious Asian flavours at home. Learn the art of steaming dumplings, rolling sushi and whipping up an authentic curry. Choose between exciting contemporary interpretations and the classics that have helped define the distinctive cuisines of most Asian countries. All the staples are here, such as miso soup, crispy noodles, fried rice and mango lassi, as well as a selection of mouth-watering dishes from 30 of the world's leading experts on Asian and Oriental food, including David Thompson, Peter Gordon and Tom Kime. Terry Tan supplements the recipes with authoritative advice on stocking your pantry with Asian speciality products and shows you how to choose and care for specialist cooking equipment. Beautifully photographed, inspiring and informative, Asian Cook is your guide to understanding and appreciating the wonderful flavours and fascinating techniques of genuine Asian cooking. Winner of the 2003 Gourmand Award for Best Asian Cookbook in the World in its previous edition. Now substantially revised and updated, including 80 specially selected new recipes. ' . . . an intensely readable run-down of the styles, ingredients and implements of Asia, delivered with authority, charm and a spinkling of Confucian wisdom.' The Times

Making Heritage in Malaysia

Making Heritage in Malaysia
Author: Sharmani Patricia Gabriel
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2020-02-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9811514941

This book offers a scholarly perspective on heritage as a discourse, concept and lived experience in Malaysia. It argues that heritage is not a received narrative but a construct in the making. Starting with alternative ways of “museumising” heritage, the book then addresses a broad range of issues involving multicultural and folklore heritage, the small town, nostalgia and the environment, and transnationalism and cosmopolitanism. In so doing it delivers an intervention in received ways of talking about and “doing” heritage in academic as well as state and public discourse in Malaysia, which are largely dominated by perspectives that do not sufficiently engage with the cultural complexities and sociopolitical implications of heritage. The book also critically explores the politics and dynamics of heritage production in Malaysia to contest “Malaysian heritage” as a stable narrative, exploring both its cogency and contingency, and builds on a deep engagement with a non-western society in the service of “provincialising” critical heritage studies, with the broader goal of contributing to Malaysian studies.​

Reconstructing Identities

Reconstructing Identities
Author: Jürgen Rudolph
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Total Pages: 540
Release: 1998
Genre: History
ISBN:

The aim of this text is to provide a social history of the Babas in Singapore. It describes and analyzes social, political and cultural aspects of their identities by taking into account the conceptual history of Baba designations from 1819-1994. It argues that defining the Babas is misleading, it is more meaningful to adopt a socio-historical approach that differentiates spaciotemporally-distinct Baba identities. Such an approach is usually avoided not only in research on the Babas, but in many other sociological, anthropological or historical studies. It concludes that there is no such thing as a Baba identity, it has always been in flux and needs to be reconstructed taking seriously the conceptual history. The two crucial turning-points in the history of the Babas, namely the Japanese occupation (1942-1945) and self-rule (1959) led to public emphasis on their culture. Prior emphasis on their former status as a political and economic elite have been hitherto neglected. Taking into account all aspects (legal, political, economic, cultural, linguistic, religious) of Baba identities leads us to a fascinating trajectory of a potential group.

Asian Herbal Soups and One-Pot Meals

Asian Herbal Soups and One-Pot Meals
Author: Terry Tan
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International (Asia)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 9789814561600

Asian Herbal Stews & One-Pot Meals brings the rich and life-enhancing legacy of Chinese herbs to your table in the form of soups, stews, one-pot meals, teas and desserts. Prized for thousands of years by the Chinese for their health-giving properties, these natural ingredients are at the centre of growing interest and research around the world today. With more than 100 recipes written with contemporary tastes and lifestyles in mind, this book is an indispensable guide to serving up nourishing herbal meals for the whole family.

Life Is Not Complete Without Shopping

Life Is Not Complete Without Shopping
Author: Chua Beng Huat
Publisher: Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2013-07-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9971697270

One of the cliches that Singaporeans hold most dear is that their lives are a pursuit of the five c's: cash, cars, condominiums, credit cards, and club memberships. Over the last thirty years, Singaporeans have become accustomed to ever-increasing levels of consumption. Singapore's PAP government has 'delivered the goods', and this is recognized as a prime reason for its legitimacy. But what is the culture of this consumption? What does shopping say about Singapore society?