https://www.scmp.com/rss/500168/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Indonesia will effectively ban palm oil exports from April 28, until further notice, after President Joko Widodo on Friday announced a halting of shipments of cooking oil and its raw material to control soaring domestic prices. In a video broadcast, Jokowi, as the president is popularly known, said the policy is aimed at ensuring availability of food products at home. “I will monitor and evaluate the implementation of this policy so availability of cooking oil in the domestic market becomes... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3175256/indonesias-jokowi-ban-palm-oil-exports-effort-curb?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3175256/indonesias-jokowi-ban-palm-oil-exports-effort-curb?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 22 Apr 2022 15:12:30 +0000 Indonesia’s cooking oil shortage has turned deadly following the deaths of two residents who died after queuing for the liquid gold in East Kalimantan on the island of Borneo. The tragedies occurred despite the area being one of the largest producers of Crude Palm Oil (CPO) and fresh palm oil fruit in Indonesia. On Saturday, a housewife Sandra, 41, fainted while queuing for over an hour in the hot sun waiting for her local minimarket to open. She died in an ambulance on the way to the local... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/article/3171031/indonesia-simple-act-buying-cooking-oil-has-turned-deadly?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/article/3171031/indonesia-simple-act-buying-cooking-oil-has-turned-deadly?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 19 Mar 2022 03:00:14 +0000 One of the markers of Sichuan cuisine is how varied and complex the flavor profiles are. It’s not just “mala”—spicy and numbing; officially, there are more than two dozen, stretching to include what the Sichuanese term “strange flavor”, an intriguing balance of sweet, savoury, spicy, nutty and numbing. It speaks to the ingenuity of Sichuan chefs that almost all of these flavor profiles can be achieved with just a few simple ingredients. For the past two years, I’ve been incorporating these... https://www.scmp.com/food/inside-spice-rack-chinese-chef/article/2157670?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/food/inside-spice-rack-chinese-chef/article/2157670?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 31 Jul 2018 11:00:15 +0000