Melissa Leong vividly recalls the thrill she felt every time her favourite soup was dished up for dinner when she was a child. “It was very simple,” she tells The Weekly. “A clear purity of beautiful pork broth with the richness of the bones and the marrow. Some simple vegetables – carrots, potatoes, maybe a little onion. And then you would have this beautiful honeycomb tripe in slivers in the bowl as well. It was such a beautiful textural experience.”
One day, she asked her father what tripe was and, “it flipped me for a loop a little bit,” she admits. “When you think about things too much, you can come unstuck.”
It’s this notion which sparked her latest project.is a children’s book designed to inspire even the fussiest of kids to try all six taste sensations: Sweet, sour, salty, bitter, umami and spicy. For, as
