Table 2 Themes and respective categories

The use of native crops

i. Pandan leaves from domestic landscape

ii. Maximum utilization of banana plants

iii. Maximum utilization of coconut trees

iv. Fish from adjacent sea

Practice of conventional Malay cooking methods

i. Common dry-heat cooking methods

ii. Common moist–heat cooking methods

iii. Unique techniques in preparations

Enculturation of east coast traditions

i. Terengganu descent traditions

ii. Kelantan descent traditions

Tradition enrichments of Malay’s sub-ethnicities

i. Unique range of Melayu pulau traditional kuih

ii. Descents of Banjarese lineage and traditions

iii Descents of Javanese lineage and traditions

iv Buginese diversity of traditional kuih