Connect with restaurants and chefs

Bringing a face to restaurant owners and home-based chefs of Singaporean, Malaysian and Indonesian cuisine are some links to videos, articles and sessions.

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2022

Mama Judy and Dennis Lim Yusheng Lohei
Judy Wee (Home-based chef, Mama Judy) and Dennis Lim (Owner, Shiok Singapore Kitchen), lead the community with prosperity greetings and Yusheng Lohei toss at our Lunar New Year 2022 event.

2021

Jai (Curry Leaves Bistro)
Jai Kandayah (Owner, Curry Leaves Bistro) introduce his dinner set offerings for the Deepavali 2021 event.

Elly Suraya (Satay By The Bay SF): How To Make Singaporean Satay And Peanut Sauce
Elly Suraya of Satay By The Bay SF makes Singaporean chicken satay with homemade peanut sauce. She marinates and then grills chicken for a tender and smokey skewer that’s served with a nutty and bold peanut sauce.

Elly Suraya (Satay By The Bay SF): The Satay Queen of San Francisco | Street Food Icons
Elly Suraya Greenfield is the owner of Satay By The Bay SF, the only Singaporean, Malay & Halal food truck in San Francisco. Although satay is their most popular dish, as it’s marinated overnight, grilled to order on bamboo skewers, and served with homemade peanut sauce whose recipe was handed down by Elly’s grandmother, the food truck also sells other Singaporean-inspired dishes such as chili crab sandwiches and chili crab fries.

American making Char Kway Teow | Kedai Makan Kumaar
Kedai Makan Kumaar is back! This time, we partnered with Season's Kitchen to do a Pop Up restaurant at the Kumaar residence to celebrate Mooncake festival, otherwise known as Mid Autumn festival. Besides having our American friend make Char Kway Teow, we got to introduce Malaysian food to so many American friends.

The BEST Nasi Lemak in San Francisco Bay Area 2021
This is the ULTIMATE Nasi Lemak review video of 2021. We bought Malaysia's national dish from every single Malaysian/Singaporean restaurant in the San Francisco Bay Area before taste testing, reviewing and giving an official score. The result will definitely surprise you because it surprised us!

2020

Keeping the Singapore Hawker Culture Alive Forum Video
Featuring Dennis Lim (Owner, Shiok), Tommy Chin (Owner, Nyonya Cafe), Elly (Owner, Satay-by-the Bay SF), Wilson Khoo (SingaporeConnect), and Dennis Goh (Co-Founder, HungryGoWhere), we highlighted a vulnerable sector of the local community especially during the depths of the Covid-19 lockdown times. They were our restaurant and food small business owners keeping the Singapore hawker culture alive, but suffering from the dramatic shift in the business landscape. To a large degree, starting the coordinated food group buy and pick-up setup, a SingaporeConnect member, Wilson Khoo, has been reaching out to help offer them means and ideas for transitioning their business model to the new reality. We capped off with Dennis Goh joining in from Singapore to offer his observations and support for everyone keeping the hawker food culture alive in the SF Bay Area.
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Cooking Singapore Food @ Home (USA viewers) Video
Cooking Singapore Food @ Home (Outside-USA viewers) Video
Missing Singaporean cuisine? How about cooking it at home! In possibly the most humorous session to date, two master chefs Em Lim (of Dabao Singapore) and Erika shared their recipes with a video demonstration to help you create these two authentic Singaporean dishes: Hainanese Chicken Rice and Kueh Dar Dar, at home. This video features a video segment of one of the chefs, Em Lim, on a Grocery Challenge TV show. As the show is copyrighted in the USA, the video for USA viewers has most of that segment clipped out. Presentation slides

Cooking Singapore Food @ Home 2 (About Weee!)
Cooking Singapore Food @ Home 2 (Very Gao Luo Bo Gao)
Cooking Singapore Food @ Home 2 (Brisket Rendang)
Back to a favourite! Two master chefs again, two authentic Singaporean dishes: Chef Em Lim of Dabao Singapore showing Carrot Cake (Luo Bo Gao) and Chef Nora Haron (Killiney Kopitiam) showing Brisket Rendang, live, one from Singapore and one from the Bay Area! Also, an online grocer, Weee! shared how they have simplified the ordering process by offering preset bundles of ingredients ready to pair with recipes of Singaporean dishes. Presentation slides

Cooking Sambal @ Home
Chef Em Lim of Dabao Singapore presents how to cook Sambal Nasi Lemak at home. Presentation slides

Making desserts @ Home: Muah Chee and Ban Chang Kuih
Carmen Wong, SingaporeConnect member, presents how to prepare Muah Chee and Ban Chang Kuih at home. Presentation slides

2015

Interview with Dennis Lim (Shiok Singapore Kitchen)
Dennis Lim talks about how Shiok Singapore Kitchen got started and their achievements.

2014

Lali Amarasuriya Kueh
Lali Amarasuriya, home-based chef, shares her kueh making story.

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