In addition to the lor bak – deep-fried five-spice pork sausage wrapped in bean curd skin – we were also eating other fried foods, including prawn fritters and tofu, from a selection that ...

Singapore, they said, adding: “We come to Penang for the food.” The eating began as soon as I stepped off the plane. My friend’s mother sent her driver, Ah Soon, to pick me up (I had been ...