Woots, let's get on with our Merdeka Open House... like I've mentioned yesterday I'm going to set up a poll so you can pick your choice of theme for this year's virtual open house. I'll place the poll on top of my postings and the poll will close on 4th August 2010.
I've gone through the suggestions stated in the comment box, my mailbox and also on my Facebook. I've selected the best 5 themes and all you need to do is to pick ONE. The 5 themes are:
(1) Provincial Specialties
Food that is originated from a place eg. Klang Bak Kut Teh, Teluk Anson Chee Cheong Fun, Penang Asam Laksa, Sarawak Kolok Mee etc. You'll have to cook the dish up and write about the dish... about it's history and your memory of this dish.
(2) Food from Our Heart
A homecook local dish that you love and that is lovingly prepared by your loved ones say your mother, ayah, grandmother, grandfather, yee ma, koo cheh, thamby, tangechi yada yada. Cook and do tell us your story about this dish and your loved one.
(3) Uniquely Malaysian
There are certain dishes that we can certainly claim it's very unique in the local scene. Dishes that we do not need to fight with our neighbours to claim who invented them such as Michael Jackson drink, kaya, 3 layer tea, yee sang and etc. So you'll need to come up with the dish and write a bit about it like how it came about, how it touches your life and what is so unique about this.
Create and write about a dish that contain at least one Malaysian fruit as the ingredient. Malaysian fruits as in fruits that are found or planted originally here so fruits like dragonfruit or passionfruit will be out of this league. If possible try create a local dish but you're free to go international with this one.
(5) Jom Lepak
We have a very unique culture of lepaking at Mamak stalls/shops so let's get on a roll to prepare something from your favourite Mamak fare. Best accompanied by a story about your favourite dish or stall.
Now come to the best part, the giveaway! The person whose suggestion got picked to be this year's theme will receive a 2 years subscription (12 issues) to Flavours magazine worth RM98.00. Do note that the delivery of this magazine is confined to Malaysia. In the event that the winner is not based in Malaysia, (1) you can opt to deliver this magazine to an address of your choice say your parents or relative and collect them all when you come back for holiday :p or (2) let's do a private arrangement between you and me on this ok hehe. So excited!
You'll note that I did not specify who suggested what so that you can pick on your choice without favouring anyone in particular. Well, unless you're so free to go through all the comments or my Facebook wall but you won't have access to those that were emailed to me heh! I'm not sure if the poll feature will work properly but I hope each can only submit your poll once. Don't need to be a kiasu right ;-)
Let's roll out the poll then!!!! Hurrah!