Chris Blattman just dropped something of a bombshell on experiments as dissertation projects: the market [for field experiments] is getting very crowded, and there are a million in the pipeline. So this is a poor product placement. The premium on…
I have committed the dumbest research mistake ever. It is the type of mistake that only comes from using electronic communications, and copying and pasting messages. I recently addressed an email to a figure linked to the government by the…
This is, more than anything else, the quintessential Eurasian Malaysian dish. It is a specialty in Melaka, where we had a delicious version of it, where both Straits Chinese and Portuguese communities pass down recipes from generation to generation. It…
Cap cai (“Chahp Chai”) is best known as a Straits Chinese dish popular in Malaysia and Singapore, but more generally, most Southeast Asian cuisines have some sort of version of this dish. Overseas Chinese immigrants settled all over the region,…
Popiah are a very popular Malaysian dish, the local version of an eggroll. However, unlike almost all eggrolls and lumpia (the Indonesian wrapped snack), popiah are usually not fried. In that sense, they are more like Vietnamese spring rolls, and…
Sometimes you want the tasty friend chicken that you get in Java, and sometimes you want the hearty soups that you find all over Indonesia; in this recipe, you get both. Yes, this is a Javanese dish that introduced us…
If you say the word karipap aloud, you might be able to figure out what it means. That’s right, curry puff. This is a classic example of food with Indian and Portuguese influences that has become a staple part of…
This is a recipe for a classic Singaporean and Malaysian Chinese soup. The name literally translates into "pork bone tea," but it’s better if you think about it as "pork ribs soup". It’s really good and has an interesting flavor….
Gulai is a term that refers to dishes served in a curry-like sauce, and ikan means fish. It has obvious links to Indian influence throughout the archipelago, but it strictly local. If you go to a Padang-style restaurant in Indonesia…
Nasi means cooked rice, and kerabu means vegetable mixture, so this dish means herbed rice salad. It’s very good, and would make a nice dish for a potluck or a picnic. We find the original version a little dry, so…
