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Makan Malaysia: bringing Malaysia to you through food  …

Are you still wondering what that means? Well – We’ll tell you – it means we’re making some sexy flavours and dishes from our homeland for you here in the UK so you can actually Eat Malaysia orrrr MAKAN MALAYSIA!

⁠How? 

We cook up fresh batches of food every week⁠ in our fabulous new kitchen – you can see our full menu here

and then

We super chill it using our special blast chiller (this cooling beast can take a 5L curry from boiling point to under 5 C in just an hour!). Highly crucial in keeping our food safe to eat⁠

and then

⁠We vacuum pack it – taking out any air to give our food a decent fridge life and, as a bonus, it makes our food packs super slim and easy for you to store in your fridge/freezer (not that you’ll be able to resist for too long.. right?!).

And finally

⁠We send our fresh goodies out to you via next day courier service in special insulated boxes with special ice packs !! ⁠Everything special also!⁠

⁠We do all this EVERY week and dispatch out to you every Wednesday for food to get to your door on Thursday, ready to heat up & Makan or save for the weekend

Bosses? Business Owners? Tycoons?!! us??? nahhhhhhh… Just 2 years ago no one would ever put us and those words in the same sentence as us but recently someone referred to us as tycoons and we were like huh? These guys?? we just want to makan lahhhhhhh!! ⁠But also, we are definitely not tycoons!!
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We’ve turned our passion (eating) into a livelihood and then into a business and from the outside, it may look like we’re ‘on the ball’ and know what we’re doing buuut look at those faces! It’s craziness back here  And the more people we meet, the more we realise that no one is really ‘on top of it’ or really knows what they’re doing, especially in these times!⁠
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One of our biggest lessons learnt over the past year is that everyone is just figuring it out as they go, you’ve just got to keep going.. and that’s what we’re doing so that one day we can be real tycoons  It’s often a lot more difficult than it sounds to keep going especially when it means a world of change and uncertainty but with with a strong goal and commitment (yes, this bit was hard for us too) you can get there! Anyone can! ⁠
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Oh hiii from the Makan kitchen team!! 

These guys help us create and send out our Malaysian goodness all across the UK and they are AWESOME. From every curry to every fritter and every box – everything is made with a lot of TLC by the people in this pic and though we might not be able to pose for a family photo very well (Sue had many, many troubles working out the timer on her phone) we know how to run a slickkkkk kitchen.

Go on, show us a better team!⁠

Before there were 5 of us in the kitchen, there was just us – Kat & Sue – and building our team with these incredible people has meant that we’ve stopped completely burning out and we’re seeing fewer grey hairs and eye bags … Which is also good for you because it means we’ve got more energy and time to spend  thinking about you and what exciting things we can deliver 🙂 

⁠So watch this space for more specials and pop-ups coming your way!⁠