Canadian food and travel blogger ‘Spunky Girl’ from Spunky Girl Monologues was joined by Tracy Burns, a vagabond Australian mother/wife on the move rocked up to Cooking School on the 1st November. They were further joined by 3 in-house guides.

Pearly was in top form as she walked them through Nyonya classics Jiew Hu Char and Otak Otak. Pamela from Spunky Girl admitted she wasn’t so sure about this Nyonya hullaballo and further more ‘JIEW HU CHAR’! And I think she was even considering backing out- to think!

But she put on a brave front and I dare say she’s now a Nyonya convert and lapped up the creamy otak otak wrapped in banana leaves.

To read Spunky Girls Monologues cooking tales, click here.

Post -cooking, I took some time out to explore their blogs and with a young child myself was particularly drawn to Tracy’s travel experiences. But I think what fascinated me more was how one makes that decision to quite jobs, sell the house and go. Whilst the pull for adventure seems to alluring, the processes of doing the former almost seem too daunting. And yet Living Proof walked through our kitchen doors and now the temptation builds!

And to be regaled with Tracy Burns, VagabondFamily.com account of her cooking class, click here.

Ha! But alas, who would look after the gardens and the cooking school – something  I love to do and really, we do inhabit a little pocket of paradise, don’t we?

So ladies, we bid you adieu and to all the farthest corners of the earth you go, do sometimes hold a fleeting memory of your time spent with us at Tropical Spice Garden Cooking School with Pearly and the team. That’s all we ask. We remain…