June 29, 2021
Yes, Tekka Market has glorious food galore, but did you know it was built in 1915?
(Clockwise from left) Instagram/makoeats, Rebecca Toh (Tekka Market exterior), Instagram/yippi312 eatdrinklove and arrahmancafe official
This series is inspired by the National Heritage Board s new digital photography project entitled Our Hawker Culture: Built for Great Taste, in which four local photographers have captured oft-overlooked features of 12 hawker centres in Singapore. In each edition, we ll highlight one awesome hawker centre and the mouth-watering makan you can find there.
You may hold hawker fare near and dear to your heart (and gut), but honestly, have you paid attention to the hawker centre itself?
Last month Mauro Colagreco arrived in Singapore ready to roll up his sleeves for a three-month residency at Mandala Club. Colagreco is chef of the three-Michelin-star Mirazur in Menton, France, and the stint in Singapore is his first pop-up restaurant outside Europe since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. Just as Colagreco and his 12-person team in Singapore were gearing.
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Centuries ago, when the humble tiffin carried the on-the-go meals of dusty travellers, it probably never imagined that its descendants would one day hold a starfruit and mango ceviche garnished with edible flowers – a dish that would look right at home on any starched white tablecloth.
This fresh, tangy and altogether delicious ceviche is one of the dishes on the menu of Tiffin Bicycle Club, a new takeaway pop-up by Desmond Shen of Magic Square fame.
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The 28-year-old, an Odette and Whitegrass alumnus who also headed up the Odette At Home delivery programme during the “circuit breaker” last year, is now putting his own dishes into round, metal tiffins and sending them out to diners eager for a taste of his take on elevated local and regional cuisine.
Beppe DeVito, Chef-restaurateur and founder of il Lido Group
The man behind some of Singapore’s buzziest dining concepts wears many hats. Beppe De Vito, founder and owner of il Lido Group, juggles a variety of restaurants ranging from luxe dining destinations Art, Gemma and Michelin-starred Braci, to breezy rooftop bars Levant and Southbridge, to casual restaurant Amò. The dynamic Italian chef certainly seems to have a knack for ideating and executing crowd-pleasing concepts his latest venture is Carne, a joint partnership with chef Mauro Colagreco of three Michelin-starred restaurant Mirazur in France. It ticks all the right boxes in sustainability, a game changer for a restaurant specialising in the icon of the fast-food industry: burgers.