Agak Agak: Everyday Recipes from Singapore

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"A vibrant joyous book! Shu has captured not just the richness and diversity of Singaporean food - through this book she is inviting you into her kitchen to share all the happiness that food brings to her life." Asma Khan

"The book I wish I had written." Meera Sodha

In Singapore, cooking the agak agak way is cooking with intent and intuition.

Agak agak is a colloquial term rooted in the Malay word for somewhat. This term comes to life especially in the home kitchen, where cooks rely on their senses and experience, rather than tools or exact formulas.

Singaporean cuisine, as we know it today, has come from a long history of adjusting and adapting and doing things to taste. In Agak Agak, Shu Han Lee encapsulates this approach to cooking by sharing delicious recipes that bring punchy Singaporean flavours to simple home cooking, whilst encouraging you to use these recipes as inspiration to create other dishes.

Try classic and modern recipes such as Kaya Toast with Half-Boiled Eggs, Nasi Goreng, 8-hour Ox Cheek Rendang, Green Beans with Turmeric and Toasted Coconut, Chilli Crab Spaghetti, Mums Steamed Pumpkin Rice, Pandan Swiss Roll and Black Sticky Rice Pudding with Rhubarb, amongst others.

With tips and tricks, Agak Agak shares more than Singaporean recipes perfect for home cooks, it shares a fun, fresh and creative way of cooking.

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The bold flavours and spice of Singaporean home-cooked food made simple for home kitchens worldwide.
"This book is an enthusiastic friend, ready to take you into the kitchen so that you can learn about this rich, multi-faceted culinary culture at once so sophisticated and yet so boisterously earthy for yourself." -- Nigella Lawson
This book is an enthusiastic friend, ready to take you into the kitchen so that you can learn about this rich, multi-faceted culinary culture at once so sophisticated and yet so boisterously earthy for yourself.
I love this book! It is full of mouth-watering and irresistible recipes. A beautiful and enjoyable book to read and to cook from. Simple and delicious instructions as if given by a good feederfriend. Shus words are succulent, luscious and alluring. The flavours of Singapore can easily be whipped up using readily available ingredients.
"I love this book! It is full of mouth-watering and irresistible recipes. A beautiful and enjoyable book to read and to cook from. Simple and delicious instructions as if given by a good feederfriend. Shus words are succulent, luscious and alluring. The flavours of Singapore can easily be whipped up using readily available ingredients." -- Uyen Luu
"This cookbook will no doubt end up being well used in my kitchen splattered with cooking stains and smudged with fingerprints!" -- Rachel Khoo
This cookbook will no doubt end up being well used in my kitchen splattered with cooking stains and smudged with fingerprints!
There is so much vibrancy and deliciousness just jumping out from every page and whats really great is that many of the recipes are fairly simple and accessible. This is a book to keep, to read cover to cover and to cook from again and again until the pages are dog-eared and splattered with sauce and oil.
"There is so much vibrancy and deliciousness just jumping out from every page and whats really great is that many of the recipes are fairly simple and accessible. This is a book to keep, to read cover to cover and to cook from again and again until the pages are dog-eared and splattered with sauce and oil." -- Sabrina Ghayour
"A vibrant joyous book! Shu has captured not just the richness and diversity of Singaporean food through this book she is inviting you into her kitchen to share all the happiness that food brings to her life." -- Asma Khan
A vibrant joyous book! Shu has captured not just the richness and diversity of Singaporean food through this book she is inviting you into her kitchen to share all the happiness that food brings to her life.
The book I wish I had written.
"The book I wish I had written." -- Meera Sodha
"I adore this book! Shus immense talent is in clarifying and distilling the fabulously complex foods of this multi-racial island without diluting any of its vibrance. From hawker food to home-cooking, every recipe in this glorious book speaks, viscerally, to me.I cannot wait to cook and conjure those exquisite flavours and memories." -- Helen Goh
I adore this book! Shus immense talent is in clarifying and distilling the fabulously complex foods of this multi-racial island without diluting any of its vibrance. From hawker food to home-cooking, every recipe in this glorious book speaks, viscerally, to me.I cannot wait to cook and conjure those exquisite flavours and memories.
So many delicious, exciting and eminently doable dishes. It reads as a heartfelt tribute to the lively tastes of Singapore. -- Fuchsia Dunlop
So many delicious, exciting and eminently doable dishes. It reads as a heartfelt tribute to the lively tastes of Singapore.

Author Bio

Shu Han Lee grew up in Singapore and moved to London in 2009. Author of the acclaimedChicken and Rice, Shu is a food developer whose spice company, Rempapa, is stocked throughout the UK, including in Selfridges and Whole Foods.