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About Yeegan

Born in Malaysia but living in London, the food gene runs strong in me. I will endeavour to use it for good

Travel review: Penang restaurant, Princeton

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Dad and I are finishing off our series of New Jersey reviews by sharing the restaurant that serves the best Malaysian food outside of Malaysia

There is a chain of restaurants with the Penang name in New Jersey but this one on Nassau Park Boulevard just off US1 in Princeton is independent from them


They have Chinese chefs in the kitchen but they understand the important points about Malaysian flavour profiles. The menu is littered with classic Malaysian hawker dishes (read a little guide about Malaysian hawker food here) Continue reading →

Kong Hee Fatt Choy!

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Happy Chinese New Year! It’s dad’s year this year – the year of the monkey. I think it suits him well. Dad’s mother always says she’s glad that he was born at night when monkeys are sleeping, otherwise he’d he even more michevious than he already is 

  

Dad has shared his Cookoff Gang’s Chinese New Year cookoff. Read about their 8 course feast here

Our favourite theme park in the world part 2

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Dad and I hope that you enjoyed reading part 1 of our review of Six Flags Great Adventure, our favourite theme park in the world, where we gave you some general tips about the park and shared our favourite roller coasters in the park

In this part, we’ll talk about some of the more family friendly rides and other attractions. The first topic is queueing. As with any theme park, it’s key to arrive early as often, in the first one or two hours, the park is relatively empty and you can get onto a lot of rides. If you’re here in the summer and staying close to the park, I would advise coming back in the evening when the park has emptied a lot of families with kids. Another trick is to eat at lunchtime when other people are in restaurants Continue reading →

Horse meat scandal defused

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Do you remember the horse meat scandal in 2013? Supermarket products were found to be adulterated by horse meat. Dad and I remember that at the time, we were surprised that a large number of people said they were willing to eat horse and that they were more upset about the mis-labeling. We were impressed at the broadening of British culinary horizons Continue reading →

Our favourite theme park in the world part 1

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Carrying on our travel reviews in New Jersey, dad and I would like to share our favourite theme park in the world. We especially love riding roller coasters and are air time junkies, air time being that falling feeling you get when something drops rapidly. We can therefore be found at the back of roller coasters, where the connoisseurs and air time junkies can be found – the front seats are for the tourists! At the back, you get the best falling feeling as the cars will be accelerating the fastest down the drops

Of course, I’m not strictly allowed on roller coasters as I could be classed as a loose item but dad has snuck me on a few. He tucks me into the front of his jacket and does it up really securely so that I can’t fall out but my head is sticking out so that I can see

So, which is our favourite theme park in the world? Continue reading →

It’s arrived!

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A few weeks ago, I shared a Richmond Sausages advert on here. Here’s another advert in that same series

Dad and ‘future mom’ managed to find a packet of Richmond Sausages with a Teddy tracker prize and it has arrived. The offer closes on 16/2/16, so if you want one for your beloved teddy, you still have a couple of weeks to keep searching 

 

Film review: The Assassin

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Any hint of a wuxia movie makes dad’s film antennae stand right up. Hailing from Malaysia, he was brought up on a diet of Hong Kong martial arts movies and there were many fond memories of family trips out to the latest Jackie Chan blockbuster

It was nice to see this genre of movie break through into the western mainstream with Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Tiger in 2000. Dad remembers the spontaneous applause that broke out in the cinema after the first martial fight scene in Crouching Tiger. Other than the action sequences which put the Hollywood attempts into the shade, it introduced well-trodden eastern movie themes such as duty and unrequited love to western audiences

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