Shopping malls, ice cream & Penang - things author Zen Cho misses about Malaysia


In a Penguin Random House Q&A, London-based Cho answered a few questions about her favourite places and foods in Malaysia. Photo: Handout

Miss visiting your favourite shopping mall during this pandemic? Don’t worry. Award-winning London-based Malaysian author Zen Cho reveals she does too in a recent Q&A series with international publisher Penguin Random House.

“One of the places I have missed in this long pandemic is One Utama, a shopping mall I spent a lot of time in as a teenager, ” said Cho, 34, proving that she’s still a Petaling Jaya lass at heart.

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