efficient. safe. protected. controlled. a utopian city-state run like a multinational company. welcome to singapore incorporated. this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder shchlt ah la la la la sha la la la singapore. one could be forgiven for thinking it s a giant, ultramodern shopping mall. an interconnected, fully wired, air-conditioned nanny state, where everything is beautiful and nothing hurts. and those things are kind of true, especially if you read the papers or the carefully monitored internet. you look around the litterless streets where everything seems to work just fine, just fine. and you think, or you could be forgiven for thinking, gee, maybe a one-party system is just what we need. you look at all the social problems and ethnic strife, street crime, drugs that singapore has managed to avoid, and you could think, is this the life we want? it ain t my sy
this dish is my dad s recipe. hokkien recipe. so it s pig trotters with black vinegar. and this is my mom s recipe. hainanese mixed vegetable. anthony: meet the liews, choy, koy liang, daughter geraldine, and sons paul and wayne. the family behind long running, much loved eating house keng eng kee seafood in the alexandria village neighborhood. and your parents met in the restaurant business? paul: yes. we only knew about this story when we get older and the media start to interview them, oh, that s how they knew each other. we are typical chinese, they never talk about how they met. no. anthony: in the beginning when they were working at your mother s parents restaurant. and then in the beginning of their eating house, how many hours a day did they work? and how many days a week, how many days vacation? geraldine: 12 hours per day. and then he gets one day off every two weeks. anthony: that s hard. thank you, that s fantastic.
and this is my mom s recipe. hainanese mixed vegetable. anthony: meet the liews, choy, koy liang, daughter geraldine, and sons paul and wayne. the family behind long running, much loved eating house keng eng kee seafood in the alexandria village neighborhood. and your parents met in the restaurant business? paul: yes. we only knew about this story when we get older and the media start to interview them, oh, that s how they knew each other. we are typical chinese, they never talk about how they met. no. anthony: in the beginning when they were working at your mother s parents restaurant. and then in the beginning of their eating house, how many hours a day did they work? and how many days a week, how many days vacation? geraldine: 12 hours per day.
vinegar. and this is my mom s recipe. hainanese mixed vegetable. anthony: meet the liews, choy, koy liang, daughter geraldine, and sons paul and wayne. the family behind long running, much loved eating house keng eng kee seafood in the alexandria village neighborhood. and your parents met in the restaurant business? paul: yes. we only knew about this story when we get older and the media start to interview them, oh, that s how they knew each other. we are typical chinese, they never talk about how they met. no. anthony: in the beginning when they were working at your mother s parents restaurant. and then in the beginning of their eating house, how many hours a day did they work? and how many days a week, how many days vacation?
and this is my mom s recipe. hainanese mixed vegetable. anthony: meet the liews, choy, koy liang, daughter geraldine, and sons paul and wayne. the family behind long running, much loved eating house keng eng kee seafood in the alexandria village neighborhood. and your parents met in the restaurant business? paul: yes. we only aut this story when we get older and the media start to interview them, oh that s how they knew each other. we are typical chinese, they never talk about how they met. no. anthony: in the beginning when they were working at your mother s parents restaurant. and then in the beginning of their eating house, how many hours a day did they work? and how many days a week, how many days vacation? geraldine: 12 hours per day. and then he gets one day off every two weeks. anthony: that s hard. thank you, that s fantastic.