19/04/2024
I wrote a book! 🇸🇬🦀❤️ Agak Agak coming your way 4 July 2024. https://geni.us/agakagak
Based on the Malay word for ‘somewhat’, ‘agak agak’ really comes to life in the home kitchen, where cooks are encouraged to rely on all their senses and experience, rather than tools or rigid formulas. It’s not a bubbling mess of luck and random ideas though. It’s knowing to wet your hands if your mee hoon kueh dough feels a tad dry. It’s choosing to hold back on the chillies, depending on how spicy or sweet they are this time. It’s the way my mum, aunties and uncle cook - and it’s the way I’ve come to cook, especially here in the UK where I don’t always have the same ingredients to work with; nor the long hours to potter away.
This book is filled with Singaporean recipes from my home kitchen - everyday recipes that I love and cook time and time again. You will find Singaporean hawker favourites, made a little bit simpler and quicker for home cooking. You will find the lesser-seen dishes served only at home among friends and family. You will find new ideas that combine the incredible fresh produce here with the flavours I’ve grown up with. You will also find tips, twists and tricks on many of the recipes, to help you adjust, adapt and make it your own.
If that sounds like your cup of teh tarik… go go go pre-order now via the link in my bio! It takes you to a bookseller in your country. Pre-orders are so important for authors as it lets the shops know which books people are getting excited about, and which books to buy more copies of to sell. Thank you - it would really make my day 🥹
Thanks as well to the Agak Agak team: Hardie Grant Books , design by Evi-O.Studio, photography by Ola O Smit photography with assisting, food styling by with assisting, prop styling by , and my agent . I have been so lucky to work with you clever wonderful people x
