Raja’s Appam: A Small Taman Melawati Eatery Serving Fluffy, Flavorful Appams

📰 Original title: Worth the wait: Excellent ‘appam’ at Raja’s Appam in Taman Melawati

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Raja’s Appam: A Small Taman Melawati Eatery Serving Fluffy, Flavorful Appams

Located in Taman Melawati, Raja’s Appam has become a beloved local spot for traditional South Indian-style pancakes called appam. Originally operating as a catering service from 2017 to 2020, the business transitioned into a food truck in 2021 before settling into its current small eatery in March 2025. The restaurant has gained a reputation for its freshly made, crispy-edged, and spongy-centered appams, served with toppings such as banana, corn, egg, or brown sugar. The Banana Appam offers ripe bananas mixed with coconut milk and a sprinkle of brown sugar, while the Special Appam combines a soft-cooked egg with caramelized brown sugar. Other menu items include thosai, chapati, poori, idli, vadai, and curry puffs, all prepared fresh from scratch. Drinks like Teh Tarik complement the breakfast offerings perfectly. During weekends, customers should expect long waits due to the eatery’s popularity, but the quality and freshness of the dishes make the wait worthwhile. Raja’s Appam has successfully carved out a niche in a neighborhood dominated by Malay cuisine, attracting patrons who value authentic flavors and freshly made dishes.

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Raja’s Appam: A Small Taman Melawati Eatery Serving Fluffy, Flavorful Appams

📰 Original title: Worth the wait: Excellent ‘appam’ at Raja’s Appam in Taman Melawati

🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Users: It's not clickbait ✅

View full AI summary: https://en.killbait.com/raja-s-appam-a-small-taman-melawati-eatery-serving-fluffy-flavorful-appams.html?utm_source=mastodon_social&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=killbait.mastodon_social

#gastronomy #appam #rajasappam #tamanmelawati

Raja’s Appam: A Small Taman Melawati Eatery Serving Fluffy, Flavorful Appams

Located in Taman Melawati, Raja’s Appam has become a beloved local spot for traditional South Indian-style pancakes called appam. Originally operating as a catering service from 2017 to 2020, the business transitioned into a food truck in 2021 before settling into its current small eatery in March 2025. The restaurant has gained a reputation for its freshly made, crispy-edged, and spongy-centered appams, served with toppings such as banana, corn, egg, or brown sugar. The Banana Appam offers ripe bananas mixed with coconut milk and a sprinkle of brown sugar, while the Special Appam combines a soft-cooked egg with caramelized brown sugar. Other menu items include thosai, chapati, poori, idli, vadai, and curry puffs, all prepared fresh from scratch. Drinks like Teh Tarik complement the breakfast offerings perfectly. During weekends, customers should expect long waits due to the eatery’s popularity, but the quality and freshness of the dishes make the wait worthwhile. Raja’s Appam has successfully carved out a niche in a neighborhood dominated by Malay cuisine, attracting patrons who value authentic flavors and freshly made dishes.

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Huge thanks to @chloeneast and @keds_economist for spearheading the #APPAM Women in Economics community. I thought the networking meetup was terrific, and the future of women economists in public policy is bright.

(I feel like I should post about my work more)

Presented some “what happened during the COVID years” work today at #APPAM The study looked at literacy growth for kids in Save the Children’s rural literacy programming from fall 2019 through spring 2021. It was a fun project because the Save the Children team are fantastic and curious and motivated. Also fun because their participants made upward progress—far better than what we’ve seen elsewhere during that timeframe.

Recent work highlight: Linking #landlords to uncover #ownership obscurity. Using #property records and corporation records in Boston, I show how to use text linking methods to uncover obscurity caused by both messy data and intentional ownership obscurity - when landlords use multiple LLCs - and show how this uncovers new scales of consolidation and responsibility for #evictions and property conditions.

Preprint coming soon!

Presenting today at #APPAM at 1:45. https://slides.com/forresthangen/linking-landlords-hangen

I'm sorry to be missing #APPAM2022 #2022APPAM. It is my first and favorite conference because it (and #JPAM) are distinctive places that feature high-quality social-science research that can also center public-policy relevance as a motivation—without apology.

I hope #APPAM and #JPAM join Mastodon soon (and maybe run an instance?).
#twittermigration #academia #policy #EconTwitter #EduTwitter @educationecon #EdPolicy #educationpolicy

Excellent turnout and lively discussion #APPAM panel Immigrant Integration Policy: Insights from Research at the Municipal, Metropolitan, State and National Levels (Population and Migration Issues) with Grant Rissler, Salta Liebert, Cathy Yang Liu, Jennica Larrison, Abby Williamson, Tatiana Padilla & me. Research in this area is advancing briskly.
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