These are the kueh we'll be eating this National Day
In his seminal book The Way of Kueh, Christopher Tan writes that "the word 'kueh' probably comes from Zhangzhou, a Southern Min dialect from Fujian Province", whose peoples were among the first Chinese to settle in Maritime Southeast Asia. That doesn't mean that "kueh" is the original name of our favourite local treats though. In another landmark book, The Food...
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