Tanjong Pagar Guoco Tower L’Arte Pizza: World Pizza Champion starts a new trend in Singapore In 2011, I wrote about the Vera Pizza Napoletana which ushered in the trend of Napoletana-style pizza in Singapore. Italian wood-fired ovens were still relatively
Next Gen Hawkerpreneurs Bak Chor Mee 25 Minced Meat Noodles: It just takes passion In our conversations about preserving our hawker culture, there has been a lot of talk about older hawkers passing the mantle onto the next generation.
World Gourmet Summit Events World Gourmet Summit Inaugural Hawker Series I am honoured to have been part of the panel of judges for the inaugural World Gourmet Summit Hawker Awards this year! Together with my
Heritage Hawkers Wonton Mee Nam Seng Wanton Mee: 92 years young and still going strong When Nam Seng closed their shop at Far East Square amidst the Covid pandemic, I thought that that was the end of yet another Singapore
Next Gen Hawkerpreneurs THE MUST TRY LIST Zheng Xing Delicacies: Tradition lives on! The thing that makes hawkers special is specialization. Most hawkers spend their entire life cooking just one dish. The good ones never stop trying to
THE MUST TRY LIST Jalan Besar GoldenRoy: San Francisco Sourdough Pizzas! I stumbled upon GoldenRoy while doing some research on pizzas. The man behind it is Roy who had picked up the interest in sourdough while
Afternoon Tea Recipes Christmas Recipes Leslie’s Best Butter Cake Recipe with KitchenAid: Finally, after baking more than 30 cakes This butter cake recipe project has been a long time in the making! My mother-in-law has always insisted that the traditional butter cake is still
THE MUST TRY LIST Private Dining Chiderful: Private Dining in a Sleepy Shopping Centre Not only is this eatery located in an old shopping centre that had seen better days, but it is also tucked away in a corner
Little India Jalan Besar Hambaobao: Uniquely Singaporean Burger Bar Fans of Ham Bao Bao must be elated when they re-opened after closing their stall at Beauty World in 2019. This burger bar is one
Everton Park Ice Cream O Happi Place: Cosy HDB Gelateria “When life serves you lemons, make lemonade”, or more accurately, “If you have a lemon, make a lemonade” as Dale Carnegie puts it, in his
Next Gen Hawkerpreneurs THE MUST TRY LIST Geylang Lor 29 Charcoal Fried Hokkien Mee: Passing the Baton Those of you who have been reading this blog for a while would probably know that fried Hokkien Mee is my all-time favourite hawker food,
Heritage Hawkers Char Kway Teow Chuan Kee Fried Kway Teow: One Plate at a Time “Old School” is the phrase that best encapsulates what Chuan Kee Fried Kway Teow is all about. Over the years, the number of hawkers that
