"Gula Malaka" or "Gula Malacca" (1931) and more

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It got mangled again, so let's try a third time to type the bottom. Nothing
is easy. I'll add a "satai."
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MAGICAL MALAYA
by Ambrose Platt
Melbourne: Robertson & Mullens Ltd.
1931

Pg. 264:
It is only in sweet-meats that the cooks of Malaya display a hesitating
genius. They make legions of different kinds of comfits and pastries, but of all
the scores I sampled I discovered one alone that I can affirm to be
superlatively good. It is the simplest of the lot. "Gula Malacca" it is called.  It
consists of a small shape of jellied sago that is served in a shallow bowl of
nipa-palm syrup and deluged according to taste with the milk taken (Pg.
265--ed.) from a fresh young coconut. To eat this dainty is to forget one's  troubles
and to slide into a voluptuous dream of gastronomic joy. Lest my  readers
should mistakenly suppose my culinary lucubrations are self-revelant I  shall
bring this chapter to a close.
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THE SOUL OF MALAYA
by Henri Fauconnier
London: Elkin Mathews and Marrot
1931
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Pg. 180:
Then came dinner. Ngah's cookery was rather monotonous, but he made an
excellent curry, savagely spiced, the fires of which were extinguished in a  _gula
malaka_, the Malay dessert, sago diluted with coconut milk, and sweetened
with sugar cane caramel.
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A CHILD OF THE SUN
by Clive Dalton
(pseud. for Frederick Stephen Clark)
London: Eldon Press Limited
1937
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Pg. 92:
I ate many strange things, There was _satai_, which was bits of meat cooked
on a skewer, and a messy stuff called _goreng pisang_, of which the chief
ingredient was cooked banana, and sweets called _manisan_ and many other strange
and indigestible concoctions.  I ate them all joyfully. Some were  delicious,
some were horrible, but they were all Malay.
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INTO THE EAST:
NOTES ON BURMA NAD MALAYA
by Richard Curle
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited
1923
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Pg. 50:
In Malaya all Eurasians are called Stenghas, which means "half" (the usual
expression, by the way, for a whisky and soda; not, half whisky and half soda,
but half a glass of whisky and soda), but in Burma, where the question is
more  urgent, a greater nicety is employed.
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MALAY LAND
by R. J. H. Sidney
London: Cecil Palmer
1926
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ALPHABET ILLUSTRATIONS
E. CHINESE FOOD-SELLER--_MEE_ AND _KWEI TIOW_
R. SELLER OF _SATAI_ (MEAT)
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TAIL-PIECES
Q. SELLER OF _NASI LEMAK_