Chicken recipes: Braised, baked, breaded, fried, or grilled, chicken is an easy-to-prepare dinner staple and easy on the budget, too.

Follow the puffs of smoke and the aroma of spices at any Ipoh bazaar this fasting month and they will surely lead you to one of Mahmood's ayam golek (charcoal-grilled chicken) stalls.

Ayam percik (grilled chicken wings with savoury coconut sauce) Ayam percik (in Malay, percik means 'to splash'), features a marinated chicken, grilled over open fire, basted with a flavoursome sauce.