Comments on: Kacangma or Motherwort Chicken https://www.julieolive.co.uk/2019/04/09/kacangma-or-motherwort-chicken/ A Malaysian lost in Britain Fri, 29 Aug 2025 22:23:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Chris https://www.julieolive.co.uk/2019/04/09/kacangma-or-motherwort-chicken/#comment-18911 Fri, 29 Aug 2025 22:23:50 +0000 https://www.julieolive.co.uk/?p=1440#comment-18911 2 stars
Dear Julie, I’m an Aussie, with European upbringing, and my parents lived in Indonesia after the war. However, I must say, your kacangma looks nothing like the real thing, but probably tastes OK. I was married to a Malaysian, and had the wife’s aunties from Kuching come over on four occasions for our children to cook this very special confinement dish for my wife. It was so delicious with the slow cooked chicken, ginger, and rice wine flavour but very pronounced flavours that I ate most of it each time. The chicken was bathed in a kind of resin oil perhaps from the sesame oil etc but seriously good taste. From memory, on each occasion, the chicken was dry but so moist and fell of the bone because it must have been reduced considerably. Yours regrettably, looks more like a desert and hastily cooked for the camera. Kind regards, Chris

]]> By: Julie Olive https://www.julieolive.co.uk/2019/04/09/kacangma-or-motherwort-chicken/#comment-17683 Thu, 18 Jul 2024 14:31:37 +0000 https://www.julieolive.co.uk/?p=1440#comment-17683 In reply to Joji.

Hi Joji,
Thanks and I am happy you enjoy it.

]]> By: Joji https://www.julieolive.co.uk/2019/04/09/kacangma-or-motherwort-chicken/#comment-17576 Fri, 07 Jun 2024 19:41:52 +0000 https://www.julieolive.co.uk/?p=1440#comment-17576 I have to use! Tastes just as good as I remembered. Awesome blog and hometown recipes! Cheers.]]> 5 stars
Hello from NYC! Followed your recipe and put the Kachangma herbs 🌿 I have to use! Tastes just as good as I remembered.

Awesome blog and hometown recipes! Cheers.

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