Among the world’s great sandwiches without a serious New York City presence, the roti john, like the one chef Amy Pryke serves at Native Noodles in Washington Heights, surely ranks near the top.
As one of the apocryphal origin stories of the dish goes, an Englishman in the late 1960s asked a Malay hawker in Singapore for a hamburger. The hawker didn’t have any burgers, so instead he fried together a concoction of minced mutton, eggs, and onions and pressed it into a baguette. And thus the roti john was supposedly born, a sandwich that Singaporeans often consume for breakfast. “John,” it should be noted, is a Southeast Asian slang term for a white man, as Pryke explains in John Wang’s cookbook anthology,
Devour all sorts of noodles at this new Singaporean restaurant in Washington Heights
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Popular Singapore Noodles Shop Opens In Washington Heights
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After a successful run at the Queens Night Market in 2019, chef and owner Amy Pryke recently debuted a brick-and-mortar outpost of her popular Singaporean food stall, Native Noodles, in Washington Heights.
Located at 2129 Amsterdam Avenue, at West 166th Street, the fast-casual spot officially opened its doors on February 8 and is sticking to takeout and delivery for now, says Pryke. But customers who frequented her stall at the Queens Night Market which was open on weekends from the spring to the fall of 2019 can expect to see some of their favorites on the restaurant’s menu, most notably Pryke’s take on laksa, the popular spicy Southeast Asian noodle soup, which she deconstructs into a less soupier version.