It’s one of Malaysians’ favourite fruits: tasty when ripe, fantastic when deep-fried and, when overripe, absolutely scrumptious as kuih kodok. Malaysia has so many variants of bananas, most ...

Kuih kodok is made from overripe bananas – typically pisang awak, which have black seeds inside. The bananas are then are mashed and mixed with flour and sugar before being deep-fried to golden ...

This effort also led to the discovery that some locally appreciated banana groups such as Pisang Awak or Maia Maoli Popoulu were not made of a single clone, opening interesting perspectives on the ...

COMMENT | I am not one who is easily confused but I would like a name change for Pisang Awak, the banana species which is a cross between Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana. Each time I visit the ...