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Young adult heritage fiction

The Missing Nasi Lemak Recipe

When Anna’s grandmother’s treasured nasi lemak recipe book vanishes just days before the biggest food carnival their street has ever seen, panic spreads faster than sambal on rice. With a smug rival food truck circling and the family’s forty-one-year-old stall on the line, Anna and her ride-or-die friends, Pye and Amelia, turn amateur detective — only to discover the truth is far stranger, and far more heartwarming, than any theft.

As the countdown to the carnival ticks away, Anna learns that some recipes were never really written in ink at all, but stitched into memory, love, and years of watching hands that taught her everything without saying a word. Warm, funny, and full of authentic local flavor, this is a story about family, legacy, and finding out that the truest way to keep a tradition alive is to become its next storyteller.