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Lim is among a small but growing number of young Singaporean street food vendors, or ‘hawkers’, who are fuelling hopes that a new generation will preserve the city-state’s culinary traditions. AFP
New generation of chefs in Singapore are serving up the street food classics
Tue, 16 February 2021
After the pandemic torpedoed his chance to work at a Michelin-starred New York restaurant, Lim Wei Keat returned to his roots by becoming a Singapore street-food chef cooking local fare.
The 25-year-old is among a growing number of young street-food vendors – known as “hawkers” locally – fuelling hopes that a new generation will preserve the city-state’s culinary traditions.
Singapore is full of open-air food courts offering a wide variety of cuisines influenced by the Southeast Asian nation's ethnic Chinese, Indian and Muslim populations.