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CHINESE NEW YEAR SPICY TAMARIND PRAWNS

CHINESE NEW YEAR SPICY TAMARIND PRAWNS   Serves 4 500g fresh large prawns, cleaned with shells on 5  shallots, peeled 3  cloves garlic, peeled 1  lemongrass, sliced 3  red chillies 2 dried chillies 2 cm fresh turmeric 2 cm galangal…

NEIGHBOURHOOD CATS AND FOOD

Wander around the streets and you'll see cats lolling around in the shade or basking in the sunshine. Many are on the chubby side with all the good food around them

CHWEE KUEH

Steamed rice flour cake with preserved radish This Teochew savoury snack with Guangdong origins literally means ‘water cake’. A tiny well in the middle of the rice flour cake forms a pool of water when it is being steamed. Springy…

SINGAPORE GIN

Singaporeans JAMIE KOH, SIMON ZHAO and VIC RAM, and expats TIM WHITEFIELD, ANDY HODGSON, CHARLIE VAN EEDEN and CHRIS BOX, brave the road less travelled to create their own gin labels that are proudly Singapore-made

NONYA DELIGHTS

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The Peranakans are an ethnic group in Singapore descended from the indigenous Malay women and Chinese immigrants, who came to Singapore in search of work

OUR LOVE FOR KUEH

Food writer and cooking instructor CHRISTOPHER TAN chats about Singapore’s love for kueh and his book By Carol Kraal

INDIAN BREAKFAST

Light and delicious, and packed with Ayurvedic goodness, Indian food makes a lovely meal for breakfast Dosai Vadai Appom Traditional Indian cooking is not only delicious but is known for its Ayurvedic functional properties. Ayurveda has been around since 700BC…