With more and more of our heritage hawkers getting in their ages, it is difficult for them to continue whip out the delicious food that they have been doing everyday for so many years. And being a hawker isn’t a glamorous job, compared to being a banker, lawyer, teacher or other professionals. Therefore, most of the heritage hawkers don’t any successor, and we risk losing out all the good food, which our future younger generations will not live to eat.
Just beside the “old-school” Love confectionery at Alexander Village which I just recommended, there’s another one by the name of Chinatown Tai Chong Kok Confectionery.
The constant upgrading and renovation of our heartlands, together with the ageing of the older chefs will mean that many delicious food will be soon extinct, and forever gone from us. We have seen many of your favourite childhood hawker stalls, and the old-school bakeries disappearing from our sight.
The Chinese celebrated festival is here again, it is this time of the year where we can see restaurants, hotels, bakeries busy promoting and selling their moon cakes. And this year we have seen more new varieties entering the market, this can only be good news to us.
I have been looking for nice kway chap for a while now, but I can’t seem to find them though.My latest hunt brought me to Tiong Bahru Market, a quick glance around resulted in two stores selling kway chap, and i chose this store over the other because this store had a slightly longer queue than the other on that day.
Food are always associated with places, like when you think of Laksa, Katong laksa instantly comes into mind. And there are also instances when you passed by a particular place, say Maxwell food centre, i dare say people will remember Tian Tian chicken rice as one of the stalls to go to.
Let’s shift our focus to Tiong Bahru, there are quite a lot of food that can triggered your fond memories, like the Tiong Bahru Lor mee, roast meat, bao, chicken rice and a few others. For some food like Nasi Lemak, you can probably named a few good ones like the Adam road and Punggol ones. But how about Chwee Kueh? When you think of Chwee Kueh, Tiong Bahru immediately comes into mind. This only goes to show how good the Tiong Bahu Chwee Kueh is!
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Brad
The afterthoughts of Tetsu Food Event
First of all, i know this may sounds naggy and even corny, but i will like to thank all of you for coming to LIC food event @ Tetsu, for without you guys the event will not be complete or possible.
Preparing for a food event althought it might seems to be quite an easy task, but it isn’t because you need to coordinate everybody time, find a suitable place, with a reasonable price tag, and furthermore the place can’t be that ‘ulu’ if not nobody will want to go.
All in all it took me a good 2-3 weeks to prepare for this outing, i started the discussions with Pris on behalf of Tetsu three weeks ago, after we finalise everything, i posted up the details 2 weeks ago. I must admit that initially i were quite worried about the turnout rate because this is on a weekday, a tuesday no less, and the price is slightly higher.
The response was overwhelming, within the first week on putting up the notice, i got about close to 40 folks who confirmed their attendance for this one. with another 20 odds confirming on the second week. All in all there were about 60+ people who signal their intention for the outing, but due to some unforeseen circumstances, some couldn’t make it last min, but no worries we will see you the next time round!
In the end, we have a total of 51 people including myself for the event, which is really an amazing figure given its only LIC second time organising a food event, and its on a tuesday where people have to work or study.