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 ...

They include Hao dong beef (a pungent salad loaded with herbs and tender slices of beef, B230), Banana curry (raw pisang awak banana braised in spiced coconut milk, B180) and Gaeng nang loi (spicy ...

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 ...