Yuna: Tom Yum
Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle
Rachel Belle
4.4 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Yuna is an internationally acclaimed R&B pop star, born and raised in Malaysia. But after a decade of living in LA, and missing her mother’s homemade nasi lemak and banana leaf rice, she and her husband finally succumbed to learning to cook the Malaysian dishes they miss most!
Award-winning London chef and cookbook author Mandy Yi says it’s common to eat six meals a day in Malaysia, and walks us through a day of meals, snacks, street food and night markets.
Yuna talks about what it was like trying to get a record deal, as a Muslim woman who wears a hijab, and she shares a hilarious story about how a late night snack attack nearly got her into deep trouble with the Canadian government.
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| 0:33.4 | Now, on to the show. |
| 0:45.5 | Thank you. Now, on to the show. I'm Rachel Bell, and this is your last meal. |
| 0:48.9 | The show where celebrities share stories about the foods they love most, and we dig into the history, |
| 0:53.7 | culture, and science |
| 0:54.4 | of those meals with experts from around the world. Today on the program, Yuna. |
| 0:59.8 | I'm just a fool for you, longing for a lost love, asking the whole white world. |
| 1:09.9 | Yuna is a critically acclaimed R&B pop singer, born and raised in Malaysia, now based in Los Angeles. |
| 1:16.2 | Her career began more than a decade ago when her music went viral on MySpace, R-A-P MySpace, |
| 1:23.0 | and she just released her fifth international studio album, Y5. |
| 1:33.4 | Yuna and I talk about her mission to learn to cook the Malaysian dishes she misses most from home. |
| 1:38.6 | And how a late night snack attack almost got her in trouble with the Canadian government. They have something on my record saying, probably looking for pizza. |
| 1:43.5 | Then we'll be joined by award-winning Malaysian |
| 1:45.9 | British chef, cookbook author and owner of Sambal-Shik-Laksabar in London, Mandy Yin. She's going |
| 1:52.3 | to tell us all about the glorious food culture of Malaysia and we're all going to want to move |
| 1:56.2 | there. You know in Malaysia we like you know we eat like five, six times a day minimum, and it's just surrounded by food. |
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