Culture

How Malaysians actually eat: the kopitiam, the dai chow, the Ramadan bazaar and the reunion table, and what each one is for.

Dishes chosen for meaning as much as taste, which is why the menu barely changes and substitution is not really an option.

Empty car parks become food markets for one month, peak in the forty minutes before maghrib, and vanish by night.

One cook, one wok, one dish at a time, at a speed that seems implausible until you watch it.

Three items that have not changed in decades. What varies is the coffee, and the vocabulary defeats most visitors.

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