This book won the Gourmand World Cookbook award for best national culinary history, and has proven to be a classic. Over the years, many Penang heritage dishes have been modified so much that what is served today is just a pale image of the original. With the absence of recorded recipes, modifications of family dishes are inevitable due to the preferences and dislikes of members of the household, and hence the original tastes were not faithfully reproduced from one generation to the next. Similarly, for some restaurants, the original recipes and the tastes were not faithfully passed from a retiring chef to his successor. This book preserves the Penang heritage food from days of yore, covering home-cooked food, restaurant and café food, and hawker food. Meticulously researched, the author has recorded the recipes of his grandmothers, mother, aunts, uncles and cousins. Every time-tested recipe is prefaced with heritage information and, together, they trace Penang heritage food to its Thai, Hokkien, Hainanese, Indian and Malay roots.

Gourmand Award Winner 2016 Join Pearly as she revisits her childhood favourites - authentic flavours that will take you back to the golden days of old-school Nyonya cuisine. She’ll let you in on the secrets of her pantry and share the health benefits, traditions and superstitions associated with Nyonya ingredients. Aside from easy-to-follow recipes, her second critically-acclaimed cookbook is also packed with full-colour photos to help readers identify must-have Nyonya ingredients from the wet market and Asian grocery.

WA author teaches at TAFE; 200 authentic recipes, simple and elaborate alike. Well written and illustrated.

Penang Nyonya cuisine is distinctive in its flavours, combining many taste sensations - tangy, spicy, sour, sweet... With a culinary tradition spanning many generations, Penang Nyonya cooking, like its gastronomic cousins in Melaka and Singapore, is a creative fusion of Chinese and Malay cuisines. Penang Nyonya cuisine also draws on the best of Thai and Indian cooking, resulting in a host of inimitably fascinating dishes. That some of these dishes have become favourites throughout the region is a testament to the irresistibility and popularity of Penang Nyonya food. Penang Nyonya Cooking - Foods of My Childhoodwas first published in 1983 and reprinted many times over the ensuing years. This new edition boasts a fresh layout bolstered by new photographs and recipes that have been adapted to an easy-to-use format. With the revamp, it is hoped that interest in heritage cooking unique to this part of the world will grow through another generation of readers and into the twentyfirst century. This delightful volume of recipes will excite both the cooking professionals and the novices - whipping out Nyonya delicacies is now a pleasureable and delightful experience.

Pearly Kee, a true-blue fifth generation Nyonya was schooled in a traditional Nyonya kitchen and teaches what were once closely guarded cooking secrets. From her cooking school in Penang, she’s taught a whole new generation of fans from professional chefs to foodies and amateur enthusiasts. Her first best-selling title has since been revised to include five new authentic Penang Nyonya recipes. Her Gourmand Award winning cookbook – Pearly’s Nyonya Pantry is also available from Clarity Publishing.