In many ways, home cook May Goh owes her phenomenal cooking skills to her boarding school in Melaka. Having been sent there at the tender age of six, Goh found that even the littlest kids weren’t spared the task of cooking meals for up to 100 of their peers.
“We were trained from very young to be in the kitchen. Even if you were seven or eight years old, you had to start helping by peeling shallots and garlic,” says Goh, a retired school principal.
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