A book can convey so much – as scenes shift, plots thicken and readers become enmeshed in characters’ lives, emotions can range the gamut from horror to anguish, anger, sadness and so much more. But on Nov 22, chef Kim Hock Su of Restaurant Au Jardin in Penang will be attempting to do what few in Malaysia have done before: transform the emotions and scenes from a book into food.

The event is a collaboration between Singaporean food travel experience company NOSHtrekker and Kim, who will be morphing Penang author Tan Twan Eng’s Man Booker Prize-shortlisted The Garden Of Evening Mists (soon to be adapted into a movie) into four courses and a signature cocktail.