The menu at Salima Specialties in Skyway calls itself Pan-Asian, seemingly featuring Malaysian roti canai, Vietnamese banh mi, and Indian lassi drinks. But the dishes really all come from a single culture, Cham, a mostly Muslim Indigenous people from Southeast Asia. When Nurhaliza Mohamath, who goes by Liza, opened the restaurant in March 2022 with her parents, Salima and Asari, she found herself pushing the family to think about what Cham cuisine is. After a lifetime of curiosity about her own identity, she now confidently describes the food at her restaurant as Cham. “It’s Cham because our people made it our own, we have our own twist to it,”
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