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‘Have you eaten?’ is still Asian for ‘I love you’
Cooking dishes our forebears used to make is our way of expressing how much we miss them long after they have passed.
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Love plays out on a broad canvas across time and can be found in small acts – like cooking for family and passing on traditions in the best ways we know.
ST ILLUSTRATION: MANNY FRANCISCO
It is 4pm and my 67-year-old mother is making ayam buah keluak in the kitchen.
I know this from the persistent pounding of the pestle against the granite mortar, and from the fresh smell of hot oil, chilli and garlic wafting from the kitchen and making its way all around the house.
