I little something about me – I am Peranakan or “Straits Chinese”, a descendant of people from China who moved to (then) Malaya hundreds of years ago.

Nothing is more typically Malaysian than the “economy rice” store. These places sell “chap fun” (a Cantonese word for “mixed rice”), vegetable & meat dishes which you eat with your rice. Chap fun stalls are usually found in restaurant corner, often run by an uncle or aunty who calculates the price of your meal in…