More sons are inheriting Malay heritage recipes

Razif has trained his three boys to make all sorts of Malay heritage food and the brothers now often work together to create these meals. - ART CHEN/The Star

Most people can regale you with nostalgic tales of their mother’s food, and the associated smells, sights and sounds resonant of the maternal culinary processes. Few can recall men in the family being able to reproduce these same recipes.

And nowhere is this more evident than with Malay heritage recipes, many of which are the direct byproduct of enterprising women utilising ingredients indigenous to the areas they grew up in.