Ordering in: The only restaurant in Malaysia to feature the food of the oldest Peranakans of the land

Kerisik kulit timun is an unusual dish unique to the Chetti community that utilises the skin of cucumbers. — ABIRAMI DURAI/The Star

The word “Peranakan” literally means “child of the land” and is often used to describe the descendants of traders/travellers from other lands who married local women and formed their own unique communities in Malaysia and Singapore.

While the Peranakan Chinese are the most visible and well-known community to have emerged from these inter-marriages, what is surprisingly little known is the fact that the first and oldest Peranakan community in Malaysia is made up of the Chettis in Melaka, sometimes also called Peranakan Indians.