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The Singapore Noodles Podcast

Singapore Noodles

The Singapore Noodles podcast features host Pamelia Chia, founder of Singapore Noodles, engaging in open, honest conversations with people who are keeping Singaporean food heritage alive in...

Episodes

20 of 76 episodes

75: On 'Singaporean chicken curry' and moving beyond singularity | Vasunthara Ramasamy, Culinary Teacher & Masterchef Singapore

Vasunthara Ramasamy: " There are so many styles of chicken curry; there is even a white chicken curry. If Clarissa cooked that, people w...

89:51Apr 11, 2022

74: Making sustainability and reducing food wastage mainstream | Preston Wong, CEO and lead innovator of Treatsure

Preston Wong: "The goal should always be to make the message of sustainability and reducing food wastage as mainstream as possible. What...

47:08Mar 28, 2022

73: Supporting farmers and discovering the diversity of Southeast Asian produce | Evelyn Yap, Chef & Founder of Happivore

Evelyn Yap: “Singapore is not an agricultural country. That limits the kind of produce we get, but also, we don’t know what is out there bec...

40:17Mar 19, 2022

72: The book publisher who goes to the wet market | Edmund Wee, Publisher & CEO of Epigram Books

Edmund Wee: “We don’t get a lot of chances to form relationships with people in our lives – we’re busy, we’re working. And you have to go sh...

53:51Mar 6, 2022

71: The ungroundedness and homesickness of overseas Singaporeans | Christopher Ng, blogger of Christopher’s Asian Delicacies

Christopher Ng: “It is heartwrenching every time I go back to Singapore, because I see the difference. And it is a significant marked differ...

63:21Feb 19, 2022

70: The diversity, beauty, and healthfulness of the Malay diet | Khir Johari, researcher and author of The Food of Singapore Malays

Khir Johari: “When we look at our understanding of Malay food, it is typically based on a narrow window, and that is the hawker centre. If y...

36:27Feb 8, 2022

69: Building the bridge between traditional food culture and Gen Zs | Christy Chua and Tan Aik, founder & editorial director and editor-in-chief of The Slow Press

Christy Chua and Tan Aik: “Through my interviewing experience in school or at The Slow Press, I feel that sometimes when we talk to older ha...

51:15Feb 3, 2022

68: An impassioned argument for home-cooking | Christopher Tan, writer, author of The Way of Kueh, and culinary instructor

Christopher Tan: “I think what everyone needs to realise is that we all have a say in how the food culture of our country evolves. We all ha...

68:27Jan 26, 2022

67: Embracing sustainability in a local food context | Desmond Shen, chef and founder of Tiffin Bicycle Club and Alter Native

Desmond Shen: “We basically tried not to throw anything away, and I think one of the steps to do that is to name the thing by its part, inst...

62:00Jan 20, 2022

66: What Singapore’s prison cooking culture reveals about the human spirit | Sheere Ng, author of When Cooking Was A Crime and co-founder of In Plain Words

Sheere Ng: “Our understanding of inmates is they are either repentant or incorrigible. It’s black and white. But I think that the masak show...

45:06Jan 13, 2022

65: Rediscovering the vanishing art of fermentation | Rebecca Koh of Midnight Fermentary and Midnight Food Co.

Rebecca Koh: “Asian ferments used to be passed down by the word of mouth – from grandma to the mother, and from the mother to the daughters....

30:33Jan 5, 2022

64: Answering your questions, and looking ahead to 2022

I reflect on 2 years of Singapore Noodles, answer your questions and share about my plans for the platform in 2021, plus: *How I decide on g...

17:40Dec 30, 2021

63: The kuehs that bring a family together | Gladys Foo, founder of Kuehdys Foo

Gladys Foo: “When we made love letters pre-pandemic, we all will go over to my mom’s place to help out. I come from a family of six siblings...

56:49Dec 20, 2021

62: The past, present, and future of hawker food | Shen Tan, hawker, chef, and founder of OG Lemak & Ownself Make Chef

Shen Tan: “Passion doesn’t feed people – it doesn’t pay your CPF, it doesn’t pay your mortgage, it doesn’t pay for medical insurance. Singap...

51:37Dec 14, 2021

61: Modernizing heritage food to remind us of our roots | Marcus Leow, head of product development at Naked Finn

Marcus Leow: “If there ever is a lao po bing (wife biscuit) in a more modern flavour, I honestly don’t think that’s bastardizing a recipe. I...

45:29Dec 3, 2021

60: What we can learn from India’s approach to vegetables | Sowmiya Venkatesan, founder of Kechil Kitchen

Sowmiya Venkatesan: “In chicken rice, chicken is the primary flavour. Your rice has the chicken flavour, your chicken has the chicken flavou...

43:54Nov 22, 2021

59: In memory of a Nonya mother and a fading generation of professional housewives | Sharon Wee, author of Growing Up in a Nonya Kitchen

Sharon Wee: “I always thought my mom deserves a book of her own, and I thought, why not a full-fledged cookbook… Peranakans are very guarded...

43:16Nov 15, 2021

58: Modernizing the spice-blending trade | Anthony Leow, Founder of Anthony the Spicemaker

Anthony Leow: “In the past, grannies used to pound their own spices, but when they were old, they couldn’t pound spices anymore. While makin...

28:03Nov 8, 2021

57: On finding joy and feeding your soul | Mandy Yin, founder of Sambal Shiok and author of Sambal Shiok

Mandy Yin: “It’s better to have tried and figured out you don’t like something. It’s not failure, it’s really not. Sometimes you have to go...

39:02Nov 2, 2021

56: Creating more seats at the table of Singaporean food culture | Rovik Jeremiah Robert, founder of The Hidden Good, and co-host of the SGExplained podcast

Rovik Jeremiah Robert: “When we draw those lines, we end up ostracizing or excluding a lot of groups who are in Singapore who are making an...

45:08Oct 25, 2021