My Mother's Palate — Flavours She Left Me
An anime cooking series about memory, heritage, and the recipes a woman never thought to write down.
The Narrator
Chef Kün 坤哥
A professional chef with 35 years across four continents. In his mother's kitchen, he was always an apprentice.
The Heart of the Story
Madam Cecilia 李菜花
Teochew-Peranakan home cook. The greatest chef Chef Kün has ever known. She left no written recipes — only flavour.
What This Series Is
A son who became a chef. A mother who never needed one
My Mother's Palate is an original anime cooking series following Chef Kün as he returns to his mother's recipes — reconstructing from memory, taste, and the fragments of instruction she left behind.
“She never wrote it down. She said if you were watching, you would know.”
Every episode begins with a memory. Every memory begins with a smell.
EPISODE 01
The Ngoh Hiang That Nobody Could Copy
No five-spice. No soy sauce. Just pork, water chestnut, and Chinese celery — rolled in bean curd skin the way she said "only the women who grew up making it know how.
EPISODE 02
Hae Bi Hiam — The Chilli That Lasted Forever
Her version had no belacan. No shortcuts. A whole dried tamarind peel tucked in at the end — the detail she mentioned only once, casually.
EPISODE 03
The Pork Chop That Was Never Breadcrumbs
Cream crackers, not breadcrumbs. Pork collar, not loin. A one-pan logic so efficient it felt like genius — because it was.
MORE TO COME
Laksa · Otah · Achar · Sambal Belachan
Eight dishes. Eight memories. A full season of the flavours that shaped a chef — and the woman who never called herself one.