Sup Tulang Merah

Red bone soup — beef or mutton bones simmered until the rich marrow loosens and the tomato-spice broth achieves a vivid scarlet colour — is one of the most intensely satisfying soups in the Malaysian Indian-Muslim tradition. Eaten with a drinking straw inserted into the bone to extract every last drop of marrow, it is a dish of remarkable, unglamorous pleasure that rewards complete engagement with the process of eating.