Image credit: Wikipedia In 1822, Lieutenant Philip Jackson drew up a Singapore town plan according to Stamford Raffles' instructions...

Image credit: National Archives of Singapore While researching the origins of Singapore food, I stumbled upon a little known or forgotte...

Image credit: The Bute Archive at Mount Stuart This was the Singapore which Raffles saw when he landed at the mouth of Singapore River ...

Shilin Night Market is the most famous of all Taipei night markets. It is a tourist destination but is also popular with locals. Shilin c...

Holland Drive Food Centre It would be beyond the wildest dreams of the British Straits Settlements colonial officers who created the fi...

Image credit: Wikipedia Boat Quay today is chock-a-bloc with fine restaurants offering cuisines from around the world. It has always bee...

Singapore from the return of the British in 1945 to independence in 1965 was the most "interesting times" to cite an ancient Chi...

Pek Sin Choon Tea Merchants You kno...

Image credit:  Wikipedia It is often said that the three must do things in Beijing are climb the Great Wall, visit the Forbidden City...

Image credit: Wikipedia The period from 1819 to 1942 saw Singapore rise from a fishing village and pirates' nest to the bastion of ...

History of Bak Kut Teh Most of us assume that the teh   茶  in bak kut teh refers to the custom of drinking tea during a bak kut teh 肉骨 ...

Photo credit: Wikipedia In the last episode, " Singapore Food in 1000 AD ", we ended with Sang Nila Utama's arrival in Tem...

Image credit: Wikipedia This is my personal exploration trip, searching for our food heritage starting from 1000 AD. I deliberately cho...

Thean Chun kopitiam in Ipoh, Malaysia Kopitiam culture is deeply ingrained in the lifestyle of people in Singapore and Malaysia (as wel...

Du Du Cooked Food 嘟嘟熟食 | 22A Havelock Rd, Havelock Road Food Centre, stall #01-10, Singapore 161022 🚄 10 minute walk from Havelock station ...

You will find this popular fried yam (taro) ring or yam basket dish in almost all Chinese restaurants in Singapore and Malaysia. It is a rel...

For the history of fried kway teow 炒粿條 in Singapore, we have to start from Chaoshan char kway teow 潮汕炒贵刁 far away in Guangzhou, China of to...

Image credit: National Archives of Singapore I like this 1980s photograph of Indian rojak in Singapore - unembellished, no "food st...

Every dish tells a story. Here's what 10 hawker dishes tell us about the history of Singapore. Let's eat and celebrate the Si...

The main outposts of Nyonya food and Peranakan culture are in Malacca, Penang and Singapore. The DNA of most  Peranakan cuisine (or Nyony...

Warong Sate Kendal in Batam, Indonesia Satay (known as sate in Indonesia) is a popular BBQ dish found everywhere in Indonesia, Singapor...

When you ask Singaporeans about laksa, most will immediately think of Nyonya or Peranakan laksa. It is the Malay ...

Swees Epok Epok in Batam Food can tell us a lot about our history. When we munch on our favourite epok epok and curry puff, we are tasti...

Ban Leong Wah Hoe Seafood In Singapore, chili crab is almost synonymous with seafood. I mean, if you go to a seafood restaurant in Singa...

Image credit: Singapore Memory Project Before there were hamburgers in Singapore there was Roti John. Though a relatively new creation,...

Boneless Silver Carp Head is an iconic dish in Huaiyang cuisine 淮揚菜 which is one of the Four Great Traditions in Chinese cuisine (which in...

Kam Long curry fish head, Johor Bahru, Malaysia Created in 1949, curry fish head is a relatively new dish but it is deeply entrenched i...

All three biggest brands of Singapore bak kut teh were in Taiwan by 2019 but Malaysian bak kut teh shop Wonderful Papa Bak Kut Teh 萬得富爸爸肉骨...

Bak kut teh 肉骨茶 is one of Singapore's food icons (along with chicken rice, chili crab, Katong laksa etc). Yet, nobody knows no...

Hearing the good news that Mad About Sucre is opened for home delivery, we ordered lunch quickly as MAD is  one of our favourite Singapor...

Four Eyes Bak Kut Teh The origin of Klang bak kut teh 巴生肉骨茶 is as clear as their famously delicious dark brown, viscous, savoury herbal...