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Preserving history | Borneo Bulletin Online

ANN/THE STAR – Melaka Chetties – the original peranakans (or ‘child of the land’) of Malaysia can trace their ancestry to a tiny village near the heart of the state called Kampung Cheti. Their roots cover over 500 years of history, when Indian merchants arrived in Melaka from Coromandel Coast on the Indian subcontinent and […]

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The first cookbook to showcase the culinary secrets of the Melaka Chetti

A landmark cookbook is unveiling the previously unknown recipes of the Melaka Chetties, the oldest Peranakans in Malaysia.

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From kerabu to vindaloo: Straits-born cuisine is more diverse than you think


This Chetti Peranakan dish of lauk pindang requires the use of very, very fresh fish. — Photos: IN A STRAITS-BORN KITCHEN
Straits-born cuisine has long been synonymous with the Straits-born Chinese. The two are indefatigably intertwined in a relationship that often brooks no argument and certainly has few dissenting voices.
For reference, Straits-born Chinese essentially refers to the Peranakan Chinese community (made up mostly of the descendants of Chinese male traders of Hokkien descent who married local women centuries ago) and largely settled in Penang, Melaka and Singapore.
But in putting together her latest cookbook,
In A Straits-Born Kitchen, experienced author and prolific cookbook collector Lee Geok Boi realised that Straits-born food isn’t just restricted to Straits-born Chinese cuisine. Instead, it covers a wider umbrella of Peranakan food that encompasses the Chetti community in Melaka, Eurasians and Indonesian-Malays as well.

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