Penang Nyonya Recipes: Preserving Our Important Heritage
By Dr. Ong Jin Teong
July 2023 FEATURE
DURING MY TALK at Penang Institute on Penang Nyonya Cuisine — Past, Present & Future, I elaborated on our intangible cultural heritage’s characteristics and preservation. Part and parcel of it include archiving old Nyonya cookbooks and recipes, especially those from Penang — and I am glad Penang lnstitute has agreed to set up a repository in their Penang Studies Research Centre to do just that.The objective of collecting a diversity of old traditional recipes of Penang Nyonya dishes is so...
Dr. Ong Jin Teong
is the author of two award-winning books —Nonya Heritage Kitchen: Origins, Utensils, Recipes and Penang Heritage Food: Yesterday’s Recipes for Today’s Cook. Following his retirement as a Nanyang Technological University’s College of Engineering professor, he lectures, conducts classes, writes books and articles on Nyonya cooking and food heritage, and runs the occasional supper club.
