Food Obsessed

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a Malaysian must be in search of a good meal. Malaysians will travel far and wide at any time of the day or night to find the best and tastiest dishes. I’ve known people who would drive for three hours on a Sunday out of town to go to a coffee shop in another state because that coffee shop made the best noodle soup. While the Brits might go on pub crawls, my pal Kenny Mah over at Life for Beginners tells me that he and his friends would go on food crawls, going from restaurant to food stall to cafe over an evening to eat different courses of their meal - and more!

So is it any surprise that when Malaysians discovered blogging a mass of food blogs sprung up!

What impresses me about these food bloggers is that they have the self control to set up their cameras to take photos of the food with loving care before tucking in! When they go out for meals together, it must be an amazing sight when they whip out their arsenal of high end digital cameras and start clicking away. The results I must say are almost pornographically mouth-watering…

Here are some that I’ve been enjoying - and salivating over. (To find others, simply check out their blogrolls which will reveal a whole new world of food.)

A Whiff of Lemongrass - a delicious blog by an accountant, would you believe, who writes beautifully and goes under the moniker Lyrical Lemongrass. She is of mixed parentage which means she has a wide cross-cultural taste. Based in Shah Alam, a suburb of Kuala Lumpur, she and her husband make a feast of their lives wherever they are, taking luscious shots of their meals with a pretty serious camera.

Precious Pea - a Malaysian based in Melbourne (we get around, you know), she blogs about her two passions, dogs and food, as well as sharing some glimpses into the people in her life. I enjoy the fact that this isn’t purely restaurant reviews and that we can get to know Precious Pea’s life a little bit. But the food photos are again the highlight!

Dad, Baker & Chef - The title says it all. He’s a dad and he bakes lovely cakes and desserts for his family and friends. Click on this pic of the dessert he made for his wife and girl friends who came round for a meal and swoon - at the food but also at his loving generosity and creativity. What a guy!

Photos: from the food bloggers’ respective blogs, with thanks