Home Truths

​It was a sea of red and gold last night at Metricon’s annual Lunar New Year event. Held at the majestic Doulton show home in Burwood east, the twinkling twilight celebration, honouring the Year of the Pig, saw customers and colleagues alike converge on the Designer by Metricon masterpiece for an evening of fun, food and festivity.

Diana Chan can still remember the smell of her mother’s tamarind fish. The sweetness of the shallots, the zesty lemongrass and the sourness of the tamarind paste are so strong in her mind that, to this day, whenever she cooks this dish it takes her straight back to her mother’s kitchen in Malaysia, where she would sit, night after night, mesmerised as she watched her transform the simplest, freshest ingredients into beautiful family dinners. With Lunar New Year in full swing, we caught up with her to talk all things food, family and tamarind fish.