Only in Sarawak : Corned Beef

Corned beef is a salt-cured beef product. The term comes from the treatment of the meat with large grained rock salt, also called "corns" of salt. It features as an ingredient in many cuisines. Most recipes include nitrates or nitrites, which convert the natural hemoglobin in beef to methaemoglobin, giving a pink color. It has been argued that nitrates reduce the risk of dangerous botulism during curing. Beef cured with salt only has a gray color, and is sometimes called "New England corned beef". Often sugar and spices are also added to recipes for corned beef.


It was popular during both World Wars, when fresh meat was rationed. Corned beef remains popular in the United Kingdom and countries with British culinary traditions and is commonly used in sandwiches, corned beef hash or eaten with chips and pickles. It also remains especially popular in Canada in a variety of dishes, perhaps most prominently Montreal smoked meat.



Corned beef is commonly found in shelves of grocery stores and supermarkets throughout Sarawak.   Across the South China Sea, in Malaya, corned beef is something shockingly unheard of.

Jimmy's Caldo de Cana

9^th of September is Jim’s Bigday.

So, I made him a secret beverage, specially named after him : Jimmy’s Caldo de Cana.  It means sugarcane juice in Portuguese.

Of course it is not just sugarcane juice !   It has a little bit of Brazilian signature Ypióca Empalhada Ouro, a spirit made from sugarcane juice itself !! Sugarcane juice with a little kick !!! Yam seng !!!!

Hippy Bigday, Bro !!!!!

Ongrizinal Limonda Brasileira

Again, its another typical Malaysian hot afternoon.  So, I made myself a lemonade.

First, squeeze out the juice of a lemon.

Add an equal portion of Brazillian Ypióca Empalhada Ouro which Jimmy brought back from Brazil.

Fill up the glass with chilled F&N Ice Cream Soda.

Voilà !! An ongrizinal refreshingly zesty, gassy-chilled, alcoholic yet non-intoxicating lemonade !

Ongrizinal Limonda Brasileira ( in Portuguese which means Brazillian Lemonade )