• Singapore Lens

    I have noticed that Singaporeans rarely argue about politics at the dinner table, but put a small...
    People rarely talk about soup the way they talk about other food. Nobody gets misty-eyed over a...
    Say the word "authentic" at a dinner table and watch what happens. Someone will insist a curry...
    The first thing I notice in a Peranakan kitchen is never the food. It is the sound. That steady...
    There is something about a Sunday lunch that slows the whole week down. I have always thought of...
    It is just past noon and the hawker centre is roaring. Plates clatter, a fan whirs overhead, and...
    I still remember the first time I saw that little Michelin sticker on a hawker stall window. It...
    I still remember watching my grandmother render lard in her wok, the kitchen filling with that...
    I found it by accident. An old recipe card, tucked at the back of a kitchen drawer, half hidden...
    I still remember the sound before the taste. The soft swish of rice being washed, my...
    My grandmother never wrote down her recipes. She measured with her palm, tasted with her eyes...
    My grandmother never wrote anything down. Her recipes lived in her hands. A pinch of this, a...
    I came in alone on a slow evening, the kind where the day has emptied out and you are in no hurry...
    The rain came in slow that afternoon. Not the kind that demands attention, just a soft, grey...
    There’s a certain calm to a good bowl of soup curry, and I think it comes from the vegetables....
    The rain started somewhere between the office and the bus stop. Not the dramatic kind, just that...
    The bowl lands in front of me, and before I even pick up my spoon, the aroma reaches me first....