FriedChilies Team Malaysia
The team, FriedChillies, are known for their recipe videos and Malaysian food hunt articles on FriedChillies.com. Very familiar with the F&B scene in Malaysia, they discovered that there were less chefs and food influencers serving or covering the local traditional kuih.As a result, some of the kuih recipes are on the brink of extinction as more of the country’s makciks and neneks continue to retire from their old-school kitchens. (Recipes also can extinct ok guys?)
What They’re Doing
To prevent the traditional kuih apocalypse, the FriedChilies team have taken things into their own hands and gathered age-old recipes from all parts of Malaysia. They just published their first instalment of their kuih hunt – Around West Coast Malaysia in 80 Kuih. The recipe books are available at Yayasan Hasanah.
The Cookbook is titled: Around West Coast Malaysia in 80 Kuih.
That’s a real clever play on the ‘Around the World in 80 days’ title of the book by Jules Verne!
My first thought: “There’s 80 types of kuih just from half of Malaysia??? That’s a lot!”According to the FriedChilies founder, “Kuih is anything you don’t eat as a main meal.” Looks like her definition is wider than what we usually refer to as kuih. It’s a great thing because the recipe book covers other appetisers and desserts such as bubur and pengat.
