I so enjoyed the cooking class given by Bee in the Tropical Spice Garden Cooking school. The style is Peranakan which is the uniquely Asian blend of two cultures where the people are ethnic Chinese but they have been in Malaysia for centuries and the culture and language is predominantly Malay influenced. The Peranakan passed on recipes from mother to daughter so very few recipes have been documented until now when the younger generation are ensuring that the traditional cooking is preserved.
The Tropical Spice Garden is a beautiful privately owned botanical garden about 25 kms outside Georgetown on the very expensive resort coast. It is an 8 acre secondary jungle with over 500 species of flora and fauna. We were taken on a tour of the garden and especially the spice section before the class started. It is incredible to see the plants from whence all of our spices come.
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- Ornamental Pineapples
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- Misai Kucing – we had tea made from this
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- Giant Ginger Flower
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- Beautiful flower – that’s all I remember
We cooked blue pea-flower rice with a pineapple curry and turmeric chicken with steamed banana cake as a dessert. The cake was steamed in a banana leaf.
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- Learning about spices
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- Blue Pea Flowers added to water
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- How did that turn blue?
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- What’s Cookin’ Good Lookin’?
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- Done
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- Truly delicious
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- Feasting
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- Bee ‘n Me
Awwww. I want to cook with Bee too.
Loving your travels. It’s like we’re there with you.
That beautiful flower- I saw one just like it In Kampala, Uganda
I really enjoyed meeting you Elred and hope that your journey is continuing to be a good one.
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Loving the updates! I’m asking for that blue rice meal when you get back 🙂