"Who could have dreamed up this tangy medley-cucumber, pineapple, carrots, jicama (a crunchy root vegetable)-dressed in a dark soy sauce that had been sweetened with what seemed like brown sugar?  Surely not a Westerner.  The rojak, a popular Malaysian salad served up by hawkers in street markets, also had the spicy bite of pungent shrimp paste ...."

Joel Denker, The InTowner (2004)