04-04-2018 18:47 via uk.news.yahoo.com

Chicken rendang snub stirs heated Southeast Asian recipe debate

A British cooking show has sparked a lively debate across Southeast Asian over whether the widely popular chicken rendang dish should ever be crispy and where it originates from.Malaysian-born Zaleha Kadir Olpin served the spicy chicken alongside her nasi lemak, a traditional Malaysian dish, in the quarter-final of the BBC's MasterChef UK."Saying chicken rendang should be crispy is like saying that hamburgers should be boiled," KF Seetoh, founder of Makansutra and an Asian street food expert bas
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