The newly opened Mokai on Chapel Road in Bandra serves a refreshing Pandan Coconut Cooler and even a Pandan Cream Croissant and even a kaya butter, which has a subtle flavour of the leaf, on its menu.

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Pour into a suitable serving bowl and leave to one side. Take a large pan of boiling water and gently ease in the pandan leaves, blanching for 30 seconds and then remove and dry with some kitchen ...

KUALA LUMPUR: Move over, matcha – here comes another green sensation: the screwpine leaf, better known as pandan in Malaysia. This year, the humble, ubiquitous plant grown widely in the South ...

And I wanted a martini.’ Nguyen used British grain vodka redistilled by a small family distiller using fresh pandan leaves imported from Vietnam. The result is a neatly packaged, fine-tuned spirit ...

In this recipe, the dessert gets a Southeast Asian treatment, with ice cream made of coconut milk and fragrant pandan leaf, and rich, deeply flavoured caramel made with gula melaka. Gula melaka is ...