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Movin' On Up!
Mr Leonard Lam, Senior Vice President & Managing Director of Welbit Asia-Pacific region
Imports/ Exports: The Singaporean Chef Story
How has the Singaporean palate and F&B scene changed thanks to the chefs that come into Singapore? How has the F&B standards changed thanks to chefs leaving Singapore to learn from other countries? In this two-part series, we will be focusing on the Imports and Exports of chefs that have made an impact on the local cuisine and F&B scene in Singapore and their work overseas.
A Fruitful Blooming For The World Gourmet Summit & Peach Blossoms
The World Gourmet Summit has, for the last 24 years, been a pinnacle of excellence with regards to gastronomy, service and hospitality. This can be seen best at parkroyal collection marina bay, singapore, where long-standing modern cantonese restaurant peach blossoms was the host of the world gourmet summit silver jubilee edition 6-hands dinner, where chefs Edward Chong, Tony Khoo and Chan Tuck Wai came together to conceptualise and execute a seven-course menu for discerning guests who have long been fans of the work of all three chefs.
Jack Of All Skills, (Re)master of All
Chef Kong Kok Kiang, Executive Chef of Sentosa Golf Club
Scrambling After Eggs
Eggs are a huge part of our lives, and a large part of our lives with regards to cooking. At the same time, we tend to forget the importance of them, so ubiquitous in our lives that they then get ignored. We ask dessert creators, and chocolatiers to examine their relationship with eggs, and what would happen if eggs should, god forbid, fall out of our lives.
Austrian Wines + Singaporean Cuisine = International Gastronomy
Austrian wines are known for being one of the more underrated regions for winemaking. These exceptional wines are fast becoming more explored in Southeast Asia, and we ask two sommeliers to sit down and taste wines from Austria. All these wines are easily available for purchase in the Singapore market, and can easily match with local delights.
On The Coffee Train
Cimbali Group’s regional director for Asia & Pacific, MS Millie Chan sits with us and discusses coffee, cimbali group and their facilities, and how their newest training facility is going to help elevate the coffee scene in singapore and the Asia Pacific Region.
Measure Of A Man
The late Mr wolf-dieter rösch was the modern take of the renaissance man: a man who embraced the warmth of knowledge and the determination to keep learning from every place he visited. In turn he leaves behind a legacy that will be fondly remembered by the people who he met.
SUSEGADO Paradiso: Part Two
A Three Part Series On Goa
A Portrait Of The Chef As A Young Woman
To get a sense of Chef Aeron Choo’s work ethic as well as personality, we first have to tell the story of meeting her for the first time in her restaurant, Kappou Japanese Sushi Tapas Bar at Fortune Center. She’s working with her kitchen team, scrutinising the ingredients she has prepared, making sure that the slices of tuna she has made is up to scratch, prepping and discarding elements that she is dissatisfied with that don’t work with the dishes. Then, she pulls out a 1.7kg spiny lobster, fresh from the tank, and very much alive. When the lobster is clearly flailing from being yanked out of the tank it had been swimming in, she takes time to stroke, pet the lobster and whisper sweet nothings to calm the creature down.
Naturally, Sweet, Fresh, Wines
Sometimes natural wines may be perfect for the dinner you are planning. We ask a team of experts to pair up natural wines from Drunken Farmer with gluten-free dishes from The Butcher’s Wife. The team of experts include: Leslie Loo (LL), Management Executive / Sommelier, The White Rabbit; Gary Low (GL), Chef Sommelier, Corner House; Lisa Jeon (LJ), Assistant Sommelier, PARK90; Eduardo Bayo (BY), Drunken Farmer.
Compact & Mighty!
Compact. Fast. Modular. Economical. Hygienic. And sustainable. The impossible becomes reality with the ctr from winterhalter: high washing performance and compact dimensions. The CTR rack conveyor dishwasher is the newest in technology that is on offer for the busy chef of today who needs everything at his fingertips.
Across Country Lines
Singapore's glory in the culinary world does not dim even when the chef is based overseas. Chef Mathew Leong, currently based in Norway, and working at Restaurant À L’aise, is the first Singaporean chef to enter with a cross country training from Norway and Singapore. We speak to Chef Leong and ask him a few questions.
Hungry For More
Chef Matt Moran is a household name in Australia, especially in his hometown of Sydney. The chef, who turned 51 this year, is not just known for his work multiple television shows involving Food Like Masterchef Australia, the great Australian bake off and chopping block. The chef is also a well-known restaurateur of a number of successful restaurants, which include aria sydney, aria brisbane, chiswick, opera bar, river bar & kitchen, north bondi fish and chiswick at the gallery. He also owns Aria Catering, an event company, and he’s a part of the International culinary panel in Singapore Airlines.
We Get Up & Nothin' Gets Us Down
Looking forward. It’s a phrase that you can easily splice into the literal meaning: the one where you look at what’s literally ahead of you in your path, or in the future. You can also interpret it as the feeling of optimism, of anticipating what is coming with the new year or in the future. This year has been a bit of a rollercoaster with regards to covid-19, especially with the impact of the disease on the food & beverage industry. Perhaps then it is time to slow down and give thanks, reflect, and talk about what we might see in the future.
Maintaining The Heritage At Home
The Singapore food festival was held virtually this year, and showcased the local talented chefs and their ability to create food that innovated and yet included local flavours within the dishes in masterclasses. We speak to four of these restauranteurs and speak to them about their inspiration and their food.
SHATEC Institutes
Margaret Heng, chief executive (SHATEC) & Executive Director (Singapore Hotel Association)
Mitzo Restaurant & Bar
Ng Chun Kiat F&B Manager
Electrolux Professional Singapore Pte Ltd
Mr Marco Pesce, Regional Head SEA & India
Chef Suzanne Husseini At Home
Chef Suzanne Husseini is a chef who can be easily identifiable by her multiple hats: a cookbook writer, a teacher, a chef, and TV Presenter. As she invites us into her life, we ask her to tell us a little on what she wishes more people would like to know about her and Arabic cuisine, what does it mean to write cookbooks and how more people are picking up cooking, and what’s next. CH
Going To California
Daisuke Kawai is the co-founder and Chief Sommelier at La Terre. He’s received numerous accolades that include Best Sommelier of the Year at the World Gourmet Summit’s World Gourmet Awards for 2013, 2017, and 2019, Bar Manager of the Year 2018, Bar of the Year 2018 and Old World Wine List of the Year 2018. He’s been a panel judge at wine competitions such as the Asia Wine and Spirits Awards and has accumulated over 20 years of experience in the F&B industry. We ask him to sit down and taste wines from California, while he shares his expertise and knowledge with the readers of Cuisine & Wine Asia. All these wines are easily available for purchase in the Singapore market, and can easily match with local delights.
Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA)
Ellen Young, Regional Manager for Southeast Asia
Enjoying California Chardonnay With Meals At Home
Eating at home is now very much a regular activity. Whether the meals are home cooked, takeaways or delivered, enjoying a glass or two of wine with your meals, can be a wonderful way to enhance the enjoyment of your meal at home. California Chardonnay is America’s most popular white wine. There are a variety of styles, ranging from steely, unoaked with hints of minerality, to rich, ripe styles with butter, vanilla and toasty oak flavours. The spectrum of flavours in California Chardonnay, is as diverse as the areas where the grapes are sourced.
The Culinary Institute of America (CIA)
Eve Felder, Managing Director
Idle Hands Are The Devil's Bakery
One of the biggest things to come out of this lockdown is the amount of time people have to devote to things they’ve always wanted to do, which has included baking. In march 2020, a recent survey showed that the second highest selling product sold so far happened to be bread making machines, showing the interest of people deciding to bake fresh bread and desserts in their own home. We asked three people to show us the sweet desserts they are making at home and why.
Yantra
Suresh Menon, General Manager, Restobar Holding Pte Ltd
Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes
Edouard labet is a part of a winemaking legacy that has spanned 6th generations. It’s a legacy that had been passed down from his father, and something he intends to continue. We speak to him about domaine pierre labet and chauteau de la tour wine producing estates, how things have changed since his grandparents’ time, and what’s in the future for the wine estates under his leadership.
Acknowledging The Issues 以人为本，饮食为先
Recognition can be a loaded word. The easiest interpretation of the word, when it comes to the food & beverage and hospitality industry, can be linked to the idea of awards, accolades and tons of press. We are here to explore how different workplaces train leaders, recognise the skills that are valued, what might be hindering that progress and new ways of working as a team.
Français Classique
Classic French Restaurants in Japan
The Grand Desserts
What goes into creating a dessert in a hotel chain, from start to finish? What factors does the team consider when it comes to creating desserts and cakes that go into the cake counter? We ask the team at pan pacific hotel group to share their creative process and the results are fascinating.