Wine and Dine Magazine | Peranakan Delights

Singapore Flavours Lunch Buffet — Peranakan Delights

In support of the Singapore Food Festival, Spices Cafe at Concorde Hotel is spotlighting Peranakan dishes for its weekday lunch buffet in July and August. Eighty-two-year-old Baba Jolly Wee, a renowned Peranakan cooking expert, was specially invited to helm Spices Cafe for this authentic and traditional Peranakan spread. The appetising rojak and freshly grilled spicy otah is great for perking up the tastebuds in between courses. Nyonya rojak is slightly different as there’s no you tiao or tau pok. It’s distinctly more refreshing with more use of fruit like jambu (rose apple). Although the focus is on Peranakan dishes, there are also other local Singapore dishes available, like this Teochew duck noodle soup. Prepared at a live station, yellow Hokkien noodles, kway teow, and bee hoon are available. Other “hot” items are the chilli crab and chicken satay. The crab is tasy and the satay can be addictive. Tender, juicy chicken leg is used, and the marinade had thoroughly penetrated the meat. The peanut gravy is also just right—sufficiently flavourful and chunky. The delicious spread of desserts include sago with gula melaka and coconut cream, durian puff, kueh lapis, kueh dadar (the skin is strawberry flavoured), apong (pancakes with banana sauce) and pandan-flavoured pancake.

Spices Cafe

Concorde Hotel Singapore
100 Orchard Road

Tel: 6733 8855

Opens daily (for Peranakan buffet) from 11am-2.30pm