Examples of Malay dishes that did get Anglicised names, and are part of the March update, include "fish head curry" and "steamboat". A discussion about local food simply wouldn't be complete ...

In the 1970s, armed with only his native Tamil and basic Malay ... dish by dish. Today, watching him effortlessly switch between Tamil, Cantonese, and Malay while serving his legendary vegetarian ...

“Two examples of Malay dishes that did get Anglicized names are fish head curry (1972) and steamboat (1960),” it wrote. Another food-related word that made it to the list is tapau ...