“In Penang, the portions are tiny so you can try a million dishes all at once. That’s how I know that I will never be hungry and my heart will always be full....” Renie Leng’s Penang Kitchens cinched the first prize in last year’s inaugural edition of the Fay Khoo Award for Food and Drink Writing.
The award, set up in tribute to the memory of writer, food critic, publisher and TV/radio personality Fay Khoo received some 40 entries. They were mostly from Malaysia, but also from writers living in Bangladesh, Britain, Japan and the United States.