Food

Favourite comfort food? Chicken rice

KUALA LUMPUR, May 24 ― Whether it’s fried chicken with rice, steamed chicken with rice or roasted chicken with rice, they’re still called the same thing ― chicken rice.

I daresay this is one dish everyone is familiar with, right from its fragrant rice, eye-catching arrangement of chicken meat, the thin slices of cool cucumber, the ... Read More

Shoppers buy fruits at a department store in Tokyo May 20, 2013. — Reuters pic

Shoppers buy fruits at a department store in Tokyo May 20, 2013. — Reuters pic

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By Eu Hooi Khaw

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