What is a Singapore Restaurant
Imagine your dinner - a starter little amuse bouche salad of Sambal Timun, gently spicy and done with a generous sprinkling of that dried sambal laced with pounded Thai cured shrimps. Then, a starter plate of Prawn Rojak, layered exquisitely with fruits, vegetables, crunchy sliced dough fritter and tubers of the season, topped with a freshly baked shrimp- plated like a fragile tower. A bak kut teh soup follows, to neutralize that shrimp paste aftertaste of the rojak...read more

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Break fast with a break from the usual.
In Manado in Indonesia, the must-have centerpiece makan at many family Christmas feasts is Babi Putar, or spit roast pigs, and Ketoprak, a vegetarian beehoon and tofu dish doused with peanut sauce, is the closest cousin I connect to our Satay Beehoon. Terik Daging, is a sort of Javanese rendang that comes more savoury and salty than it is sweet. I do know a bit about Indonesian food culture but much of what I know, I owe it to one man...read more

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