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Serina Yap

Food and cooking · Markets, kitchens and the family recipe

Serina writes recipes the way they are actually handed over, with the argument attached. Her books move between the wet market at seven in the morning and a kitchen where two people cannot agree on how much ginger is too much ginger. Every method is tested on a normal stove by somebody in a hurry. She measures by eye and writes it down in grams for your sake, not hers.

3 books in print · 10 journal pieces

Food & Cooking Novel & Fiction

Books by Serina Yap

Morning Has a Spoon Twenty Four Savoury Breakfasts for Ordinary Mornings

Ginger Is the Argument Twelve Market Suppers and the People Who Never Agree on Them

Bring Back the Yellow Bowl A Novel of Sisters, Supper, and the Last Market Sunday

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Serina Yap in the journal

22 Oct 2026What to Cook When Nobody Agrees on Breakfast
21 Oct 2026How Much Ginger Is Enough?
19 Oct 2026One Clean Circle on the Shelf
16 Oct 2026Nine things the wet market tells you before seven in the morning
12 Oct 2026The kitchen a month before Deepavali, and the argument we have every year
7 Oct 2026My aunt and I disagree about when the soup is done
3 Oct 2026The morning the ginger won
28 Sep 2026Things the market taught me that no recipe did
24 Sep 2026The fish man keeps the good one under the counter
19 Sep 2026Too much ginger, and other family law