Dr. Çetiner’s Blogs (Dr. Beytullah Gültekin Çetiner)

Kefir Grains in Malaysia
We are still making homemade yogurt in Malaysia initiated with the yogurt culture that we brought when we came to Malaysia 9 months ago. As known, Yogurt, originally Turkish yogurt is a wonderful product full of beneficial bacteria for human body and specially human digestion system (See Yogurt).

Yogurt is ordinary food in any Turkish house consumed daily without any exception. I do not remember a day in my house or mother’s house without yogurt. We always keep culture anyway. Because for the next production you need the culture.

Kefir Grains to Make Kefir
As original Turkish food again, Kefir is widely consumed in Caucasus Turks and Turkey as well. You need kefir grains to start kefir production in-house similar to yogurt process (see making Kefir). Kefir is also becoming very popular like yogurt in Turkey. You can find it anywhere. If you are not sure you can go to any Faculty with Agricultural studies in Turkey having a department with diary products.

Kefir Grains in Malaysia
Unfortunately, we did not bring Kefir grains when we traveled to Malaysia. I made a search for Kefir Grains in Malaysia but we could not find any. I am writing this blog entry to find out if anyone has Kefir grains or producing Kefir in Kuala Lumpur / Malaysia. Please use commenting facility in this post if you are willing to share. If anyone coming from Turkey to visit Malaysia would bring Kefir grains we would be grateful. I am ready to pay for it. You can alternatively email me at drcetiner at gmail.com. Once I get Kefir culture I will inform valuable readers from this post. We can also share the culture.

The related posts for Kefir:
* How to Make Kefir
* Kefir
* Yogurt vs Kefir
* How to Make Yogurt
* Yogurt (Yoghurt)