Roti John
The foreigners would always ask him to fry up an onion omelette, which they would eat with a side order of bread. They ate so much of it, and so often, that Shunkor decided to create a "two-in-one" dish for them. He added the bread as the omelette was cooking, and the result was a delicious omelette-topped slab of French bread, which came with a
special-chilli sauce.
It went down well with the foreign clientele, and the locals, and Shukor needed a name for it. Since it had been created for foreigners, it was named after them too.
"In those days, we addressed all ang mohs (foreigners) as John! John! So my father named this dish Roti John!" explained Norhayati, daughter of Shukor, who created Roti John in the 1970s.
And the rest, as they say, is history.
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on 2nd July, 2004 |
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