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Published 2017
On a whim a few years ago I bought a three-author cookbook published in the UK with the glorious title Best-Ever Cooking of Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia & the Philippines: Ingredients, Techniques, Traditions, & All the Popular Local Dishes. And they aren’t kidding. It’s an absolutely insane book: step-by-step photographs of every single dish (all 340 of them—how’d they do that?), no-holds-barred ingredients lists (terasi and belacan, milkfish and mutton, sour carambola gree