In a Straits-Born Kitchen (Geok Boi Lee) chilies From mulled wine to festive

From mulled wine to festive spritzes

and the triumphant rebirth of three-star cuisine

laying out his more than a quarter-century of drugs

From coast to coast

In a Straits-Born Kitchen (Geok Boi Lee) chilies From mulled wine to festiveU. K. IMPORT While researching the Straits born community for this cookbook, Lee Geok Boi realized that the culinary delights typically classified as Peranakan were more than just Straits Chinese. They are also Eurasian, Chetti Melakan, Indonesian Chinese, Malay and Indonesian. The trove of salads, curries, soups, stews, kueh kueh, cakes and biscuits are all found in the different branches of the Straits born communities who were drawn to this island