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“Have you joined the Baba Nyonya group?”
Mum stands over a four-litre pot of babi pongteh, coating heavy chunks of pork with fermented soybean spice paste. The howling rangehood almost drowns the scrape of her steel spatula as I idly poke through our snack basket.
“Yeah, you added me ages ago.” I pilfer a sweet pink roll of haw flakes to distract my peckish mouth. “I don’t really use Facebook that much anymore.”
My mum has peppered the Baba Nyonya Recipe Sharing Group into nearly every conversation on cooking we’ve had since she found it. At over 117,000 members strong, the Facebook group is full of recipes for Peranakan, Malaysian, and Singaporean foods, a global community for cooking tips and food envy. Not all members are Baba Nyonya, also known as Peranakan or Straits Chinese, but all appreciate the cuisine. Born from Chinese settlers marrying Malay women centuries ago, the small sub-culture has more admirers than members. Read more…
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