CRAZY & GREAT 2 of 2 (CG2)
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SINGAPORE 🇸🇬 PAIRINGS
SATAY • SATE
Satay is believed to originate from Java, Indonesia, where it is written as Sate.
This is the same spelling in Malaysia and in the south of Thailand where there are Malay communities, including in Phuket.
FRIED HOKKIEN PRAWN MEE
This is a Singapore original. I have never come across Fried Hokkien Prawn Mee in Malaysia, Xiamen, Quanzhou or Hui’an, my ancestral home in Fujian Province. Two types of noodles are used. Yellow Hokkien Mee (Phuket where there is quite a lot of Hokkien Chinese, uses this type of noodle too) and Bee Hoon or Rice Vermicelli.
HAINANESE CHICKEN RICE
Immigrants from the island of Hainan are the creators of this culinary icon. While we know the person who first concocted the Singapore Sling – in 1915 by another Hainanese named NGIAM Tong Boon – the Head Bartender of the Raffles Hotel, no one knows when Hainanese Chicken Rice first appeared on our island state.
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SOMMELIER AT HOME
REMEBERING GERARD BASSET
Judging at Decanter World Wine Awards in London or Decanter Asia Wine Awards in Hong Kong, whenever I
Djessa Reyes • The Dempsey Cook House & Bar
Djessa Reyes was born and raised in Ilocos Sur. The province in the north of Luzon – the
Gerald Lu • Praelum
Praelum has between 300 and 350 labels. And – via Coravin – 50 wines by the glass. Ninety-five
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