Singaporean restaurant Rempapa is gathering some of the country’s local food personalities for its First Anniversary Heritage Food Festival next month.
The event on February 18, 2023, will feature six chefs from Rempapa founder Damian D’Silva to SG Brisket Kitchen pitmaster Jayce Ho, who will be at the restaurant cooking local cuisine in both traditional and contemporary forms.
Other names include Willin Low, one of the pioneers of Modern Singapore cuisine, private chef and Masterchef Singapore Season 2 participant Vasunthara Ramasamy, Patisserie Antoinette founder and Hakka cuisine advocate Pang Kok Keong, as well as private chef, author, and veteran food writer, Annette Tan.
“My collaborators hail from different ethnicities and cultural backgrounds, embracing everything that makes us Singaporean – exactly what I advocate at Rempapa,” said D’Silva.
D’Silva will be bringing five dishes including sambal stingray, balonglong salad, and devil’s curry, while Low updates Hainanese pork satay with Iberico pork. For Pang, he revisits a native Hakka food called suan pan zi, or abacus seeds made with yam.
Ramasamy recalls snacks sold by street hawkers for her two kinds of vadai cooked with masala and cashew nut, as Tan draws from her memories of growing up in a Peranakan household for her fried popiah and sweet kueh keledek. Smoked meats expert Ho marinates beef brisket with spices including ginger and curry leaves, cooks it over post oak and hickory wood, then serves it in a panini with smoked cheese.
Tickets to the festival costs SGS 68 per person, which entitles each diner to SGD 70 in credits. Food items cost between SGD 5 to SGD 10, while drinks range from SGD 5 per glass for a non-alcoholic cocktail to SGD 65 for a bottle of red or white wine.
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Rempapa First Anniversary Heritage Food Festival 2023
February 18, 2023, 12pm – 9pm
SGD 68 per person
2 Paya Lebar Rd, #01-01/02/03 Park Place Residences at PLQ, Singapore 409053. Get tickets here.
Hero and Featured Images: Courtesy of Rempapa
This story first appeared on Lifestyle Asia Singapore
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