It is a shame that vegetables are sidelined in Singapore dishes, when they used to be at the heart of many Asian cuisines, says cookbook author Pamelia Chia.
BREDA, The Netherlands: From what I recall of my time living in Singapore, meat and seafood were on the table at every meal, sometimes even in every dish. While vegetables were ordered , the star was always the coffee ribs, pepper crab or braised duck.bushfires triggered by climate change
The contrast between our average meal and the ones that we would enjoy on our trips back to Singapore was often jarring. While the meals were immensely pleasurable, the skew towards meat and seafood was so heavy, it almost felt obscene. Returning to Australia, we would find ourselves constipated from the lack of fibre and desperate for some greens., according to the National Nutrition Survey conducted that year.
According to Shen Tan, founder of the now defunct nasi lemak stall OG Lemak, the price ceiling on hawker food might also have a part to play in the disproportionate lack of vegetables on our plates. Apart from some dishes such as thunder tea rice or yong tau foo, greens are glaringly absent from most hawker dishes, which comprise predominantly of carbohydrates.
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