Originally from Australia, Karen Koh is a broadcast journalist and board member of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club. She spoke to Andrew Sun.
I grew up in Sydney, and my parents were migrants from Singapore. At home, my mum cooked Asian food. I could never understand why my school friends did not like vegetables, because my mum made all kinds of Asian-style leafy greens.
She also grew chillies and made her own sambal belacan. The whole house smelled like fish. Now, I love seafood – crab, lobster, prawns, clams, squid – more than meat.
