Meet Jonathan Yap: Preserving Peranakan Heritage Through Food, Memory and Resilience

For Jonathan Yap, Peranakan cooking began with childhood memories of his grandmother’s food. Growing up in a Baba-Nyonya family, dishes such as ayam buah keluak were more than meals; they were traditions he looked forward to and memories that stayed with him long after his grandmother was gone. What began as an attempt to recreate … Continue reading Meet Jonathan Yap: Preserving Peranakan Heritage Through Food, Memory and Resilience