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Looking after the ashes kopi soh5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() A coffee and makan place for people to hang out and so it progressed to a point where they started calling me Kopi Soh, a term used to refer to the lady who serves coffee and owns the cafe. “The atmosphere on my blog was very much like a kopitiam. ![]() Unsurprisingly, Kopi Soh is as mysterious as her book, as the author operates under a pseudonym and has kept her identity secret for a very long time, beginning with her blog when she migrated years ago.įeeling homesick and lonely, she used her blog to post about Malaysia, and naturally, it attracted a Malaysian readership, which eventually became an online community of sorts. The selection process wasn’t a conscious one, I just let it all pour out of me,” she said when explaining how she selected her stories. In order to respect one another’s culture, we had to first learn what they were. “Growing up in Malaysia, I am also naturally surrounded by Malay and Indian tales, superstitions and taboos. In tandem with the aforementioned, this region of Asia has no shortage of stories concerning the unknown, the shadows in the trees, and the voices in the woods.Ĭollecting tales from her formative, younger years, Malaysian-born author Kopi Soh recently released her third book, Looking After the Ashes that compiles old wives’ tales, taboos and childhood superstitions peddled by adults. AS a melting pot of cultures, ethnicities, beliefs and religion, Malaysia – and the rest of Southeast Asia – has been rich with history for thousands of years, or even longer. ![]()
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