#john torode

Education Here and Abroad (1958)

I thought that this was just another one of those riled up moments that will blow over but the fact that not only did John Torode completely disregard a part of Malaysian culture by calling it an ‘adaptation’ and try to change the subject by saying “maybe it’s Indonesian’ but signing off with Namaste?

First of all, Namaste is South Asian, not Southeast Asian you expired jar of mayonnaise. Rendang is a stew. It’s not crispy, it doesn’t have sauce on the side, and it’s not supposed to fall off the bone. Your national dish is chicken tikka masala and the last time I checked there’s ‘sauce’ all over it and it isn’t crispy either.

The utter disrespect that this man has is appalling. We’re not getting excited. We aren’t a bunch of children trying to get daddy to listen to us. Saying it’s Indonesian, knowing fully well that it’s a subject that we’ve fought over only shows that you are yet another white man trying to divide southeast Asians and we are not going to fall for that shit because the one thing we poc know is to not let a piece of wonder bread come between us.

What makes me genuinely angry is that John Torode has an entire series on Malaysian cooking. I’m sick and tired of white people coming to a country and taking a part of our culture for your own gain. It’s not cultural appreciation to change and re-imagine our culture. We’re not here to be inspring and fascinating.

The same day I find out why Weiner is mia, similar but worse..why?! There is too much junk floating into our head space. I literally threw a cup across the room, unrelated, just part of the nature of the beast.

The only good thing was hearing the owl hooting twice 12:11pm & 6:30pm, this little guy is getting happier I hope... while the world goes to pot, there should be something to balance things out. He's hooting right now! 8:02pm, and still doing as he is flying away. awww