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WHAT happens when one combines superstar talent like Masterchef Australia’s Adam Liaw (winner of Season 2) with a ubiquitous food truck? Well, you get gourmet meals by the side of busy streets with cars and motorbikes zooming past. Far from having to pay the exorbitant prices that fine dining restaurants charge, expect to pay only RM6.99 or RM7.99 for a wrap from the new Little Red Food Truck by Mission Foods.

Serving wraps with recipes cooked up by Liaw, who’s a Malaysian-born Australian chef, the Little Red Food Truck is set to hit the streets of the Klang Valley based on a weekly schedule that can be found on Misson Food’s Facebook page.

The five main items on the food truck’s menu were created by Liaw, inspired by his multicultural upbringing in Malaysia, Japan and Australia, as well as having a multicultural family (his father is Chinese and his mother is English). On the menu, expect to see Laksa Fried Chicken Wrap with Pineapple Salsa, Beef Bulgogi Kimchi Wrap, Coconut Prawn Wrap with Spicy Tamarind Mayonnaise, Lamb Shank Rendang with Sweet Radish Acar and Roast Carrot Hummus with Avocado.

Although wraps have traditionally been associated with Mexican and Spanish food, Liaw has managed to incorporate Asian and local flavours into his recipes, giving the wraps a completely new dimension. This new take on traditional Mexican wraps is a revolutionary way to eat much-loved Malaysian cuisine on the go, with no need for cutlery nor chairs and tables.

If there’s one thing that has caught the attention of Liaw in recent years, it’s the current trend in Scandinavia that’s taking the world by storm — cooking with local, sustainable produce. Noma, a Danish two-Michelin star restaurant which traces its roots to this exact philosophy sat at the No 1 spot of the Best Restaurant in the World list for four years (2010, 2011, 2012 and 2014).

Liaw believes that the idea of celebrating the ingredients that you choose to make your dishes from is immensely important — really thinking about the ingredients and doing them justice, so to speak.

Liaw’s fame was cemented in the culinary world forever when in 2010, he won the second season of MasterChef Australia. Since then, he’s gone on to write several cookbooks — Two Asian Kitchens, Asian After Work and Adam’s Big Port — and hosted his own travel/food show called Destination Flavour.

Mission Foods, the company bringing the Little Red Food Truck to the masses, is a subsidiary of Gruma, a Mexican company that’s the industry leader in corn flour and tortilla wrap production, with operations in the United States, Mexico, Central America, Venezuela, Europe, Australia, China and Malaysia. Today, Mission Foods has grown to become one of the largest producers of tortilla wrap products, producing almost a quarter of all flatbreads sold in the world.

The Little Red Food Truck will make its rounds all over the Klang Valley, serving up some of Liaw’s new mouth-watering recipes. To find out which areas the truck will be parked at, visit the Mission Foods Malaysia Facebook page at www.facebook.com/missionfoodsmalaysia.

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This article first appeared in The Edge Financial Daily, on June 11, 2015.

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