Coconut rice with sambal and okra

Breakfast is the one meal in the day when cultural boundaries aren’t easily crossed – even the most experimental and daring of eaters revert to what they know and like, which is their mum’s cooking. My friend Helen Goh, who was brought up in Malaysia, finds it excruciatingly difficult to have anything in the morning but the national breakfast grub, nasi lemak. Nothing else turns her on. My dish is inspired by nasi