Sarah Lim

Sarah grew up in George Town eating at the same hawker stalls her grandmother did. She has spent the last decade writing about Penang's food culture — tracking down the origin stories of dishes, interviewing the third-generation operators who still cook the way their grandparents did, and explaining why the char kway teow on Kimberly Street is different from the one three streets away.

Her coverage focuses on the practical and the historical: what to order, where to go at what time of day, and the cultural context that makes Penang eating more than just tourist food. She writes about hawker centres, kopitiams, nasi kandar, and the Peranakan traditions that shaped what Penang eats today.