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Sangee’s Kitchen

Across the Table
Interviews with Welcome Merchant food vendors at Powerhouse Lane. Words by Ann Ding and Shivika Gupta
[Alt text] Three smiling people pose behind a stall with jars of beverages and a menu board featuring chrysanthemum iced tea and fried ice cream from ‘Sangee’s Kitchen’.
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Sangee’s Kitchen

Powerhouse Lane was a celebration of the culinary and musical landscape of Western Sydney presented across four flavoursome nights on George Street at Parramatta Lanes in late October 2024.

As part of the festival, Powerhouse commissioned fbi.radio’s Snack Time team, led by presenters and food enthusiasts Ann Ding and Shivika Gupta, to conduct an interview series with Marjorie Tenchavez, founder of award-winning social enterprise Welcome Merchant, alongside four renowned local food vendors. Presented here is Across the Table: Sangee’s Kitchen.

Powerhouse Lane is proudly funded by the NSW Government in association with City of Parramatta Council and Powerhouse.

‘Some of my best memories are from cooking with my dad. He would show me how to blend the spices and create traditional dishes from scratch – my father is my inspiration.’
Sangee, Sangee’s Kitchen, 2024
Two hands hold a cardboard box of round snacks filled with ingredients, while another hand pours green liquid from a small black cup onto the snacks.
A smiling vendor in a black outfit with gloves stands at a grill, preparing food skewers of marinated meat, with sauce containers visible nearby.
A display of jars labelled ‘Sangee's Kitchen’, containing colourful preserves or sauces, with golden lids, arranged neatly on a wooden surface.
A smiling person in a black top and gloves prepares food at a stall, with kitchen items visible in the background, and a ‘Welcome Merchant’ sign on the counter.

Sangee is a chef and founder of Sangee’s Kitchen, a food business specialising in Malaysian street food. After moving to Australia in 2018, she was inspired by childhood memories in Penang of watching and learning to cook from her father to go on to set up Sangee’s Kitchen in 2021. As a curry chef, her father taught her how to make a variety of dishes which form the basis of her culinary prowess.

Sangee is passionate about sharing the unique blend of multicultural food characteristic of Malaysian cuisine. Listen to Sangee take us on a tantalising journey from nasi lemak to curry laksa. In a nod to her Tamil roots, Sangee served pani puri, a popular South Asian street food dish, at her Powerhouse Lane stall. This was paired with Malaysian favourites such as satay skewers, offering Powerhouse Lane an unmissable pop of Malaysian Penang flavours.

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