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Pair Malaysian cuisine with beer in Cambridge

Sekali, a pop-up series by chef Derrick Teh, returns to Lamplighter Brewing Company.

Pair Malaysian cuisine from Sekali with Lamplighter beer this month in Cambridge. Courtesy of Sekali

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The Greater Boston dining scene doesn’t have much in the way of Malaysian food, which might help to explain why Sekali tends to sell out quickly wherever the pop-up dinner series goes.

Here’s another chance to try this bold cuisine locally: Sekali returns to Lamplighter Brewing Company on Sunday, Feb. 20.

Sekali chef and founder Derrick Teh, an alum of Pagu and Momi Nonmi, is bringing a takeout-friendly menu to the Cambridge taproom for a pay-as-you-go pop-up. No pre-orders are required, but all food is first-come, first-served.

The menu is still in the works, but Teh’s cooking is influenced by the melting pot of flavors of his home country — the chef is Chinese-Malaysian — and his classically trained culinary career. Past pop-ups have featured dishes such as sweet potato curry puffs, steamed buns with su ya (vegetarian “duck”) with house-made black bean sauce, mango sago pudding with pomelo. and more.

Take it to-go, or stick around at Lamplighter to pair it with Birds of a Feather IPA, Lamp Lager, or one of more than a dozen house-brewed beers on draft.