Love this podcast. Support this show through the ACAST supporter feature. It's up to you how much you give and there's noiky. I love eating as much as anything else in the world. But also, it sometimes brings me conflict, shame and all sorts of other things that are rubbish. It's complicated and I think fascinating. This is a conversation with an interesting soul,

not just about food, but about gobbling it up, or if you will, hoovering.

This week I'm joined by a master chef contestant, no less.

Hailing from Malaysia via Bristol is the absolute mega-poppet, an extremely fine kitchen

with Zaleha Ulpin.

You might remember her from her regretfully well-pressed-covered departure from the show,

involving, in my opinion, some slightly moronic comments about

her Rendan Curry. First, excuse me, while I quickly need to beg you for some money,

I'm on a site called Patreon now to help me fund the podcast so that I can do brilliant

things like travel around to get better and better guests. It's essentially where

people like you potentially can give me

a monthly amount from as tiny as two bucks in exchange for cool presents. If you might be keen,

or you've got a rich aunt who's wasting her money down the book is send yourself or her to

patreon.com forward slash the hoovering pod. Thank you. So anyway, this week's

podcast is truly revelatory. I get to taste home-cooked flavours from Malaysia that I have

never experienced before. I'm so spoiled to be cooked for and to meet Zaleha's family and to

be allowed into her home.

There are brilliant funny moments but some of the insights into the highs and not so

highs of being in and then of leaving a reality TV show about cookery.

Really got my backup, I think, would agree with me by the end of this.

That Saleha is far too lovely. Oh wow.

I didn't think I've ever had, I've certainly never made anything like this.

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