Nasi Lemak

It was an old Baba custom to serve nasi lemak on the 12th day of a Baba wedding. The elaborate wedding is rarely experienced now. My mother often told me the stories of such a day’s events. It would start with the bride’s family providing the groom’s mother with a section of the bedsheet used on the wedding night. Lime juice was used to test the evidence of the bride’s virtue… or lack thereof. If all went well, a roasted suckling pig on a tray took pride of place at a street procession to t