New year, new 'fhun'-loving dishes

Eight Treasures Roasted Chicken. Photo: The Star/Yap Chee Hong

At a peer-to-peer recipe sharing session organised by Unilever Food Solutions (UFS) in preparation for the lunar new year, the usual suspects were nowhere in view. No Buddha Jumps Over The Wall, yue sheng, abalone (pao yue), dried oyster (hoe see), pork trotter, whole fish or nian gao, not even a spring roll.

Instead, the three kitchen gods – Datuk Ringo Kaw (director of Asean Culinary Academy and Kelana Jaya Seafood Restaurants), Chef Sun and Chef Alan Wong – presiding over the affairs were singing the praises of ingredients like salted egg yolk and lime-flavoured powder.