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With the proliferation of food porn in social media, it's inevitable that the phenomenon makes a cameo in the arts too. Not so as selfie or wefie, but more a mark of cultural or personal taste in culinary transformations. Here, Chang Fee Ming makes a detour from his usual subjects on people, festivals and traditional abodes with this Makan Series which were shown at the 2022 CIMB Art & Soul: Curtain Call exhibition. Fee Ming's love of Malay food and fishes is evident in his occasional Facebook posts and his potpourri shows distinctly spicy Kelantan and south Thailand dishes, often with the rezeki (livelihood) angle. The ikan budu is not a fish per se but a fermented anchovy condiment. In five decades of a chequered career as a dedicated watercolorist, Chang Fee Ming has achieved accolades as a trail-blazer in the region. His prized bounty include: Gold  Asean Award in the Sime Darby Art Asia (1985); Minor Awards in Bakat Muda Sezaman (1986, 1987); 1st Prize PNB (1985); the Dom Perignon Portrait of A Perfectionist Award, Malaysia (1999); the Winsor & Newton World Millennium (1999); two Awards of Distinction, Rockport Publishers USA (1997), and the Malaysian Watercolour Society Award (1984 and 1985). Though he first etched international fame in Bali, he is best known for his epic anthropological painting odyssey of the Mekong.