Malaysian learns the secret to cooking good paella is...a 'magical spell'?


Paella is cooked in a large flat pan. — Wikimedia Commons



The secret to cooking good paella lies in a set of smooth Spanish incantation.

“Paella, paella... se bueno! Se bueno!” chef José Manuel Benito chanted over our large pan of Valencian paella. In English, that translates to: “Paella, paella... be good! Be good!”

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