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We met up with Yuko san first to have lunch together and although the plan was to have frog porridge for lunch but who knows the shop had already closed down, hence we find alternative nearby & come across this Chinese Restaurant on which we Thank God that the arrangement was actually great as they served great food! Simply delicious!!! All of us enjoy all the tim sums we ordered, please see pictures below:-

全部美味しい方です、金魚は可愛です！

And because of Hari Raya, The Peranakan Museum is giving free open house admission, its been a museum I wanted visit. And since its free admission, we decided to visit with Yuko san & my Hubby, admission fee usually cost SGD 6 per person. So the 3 of us, my hubby, Yuko san & myself went there with a savings of SGD 18, it was a great gorgeous eye openiing museum for us since this is the first time we visited this museum. Somehow it also reminds me of the chinese drama "Little Nonya". Check out some of the pictures taken, hope you enjoy viewing =)

MINITURES FOUND AT SOUVINEAR SHOP OF PERANAKAN MUSEUM:

Tea Break @ Coffee & Toast Citylink Mall after our Museum visitation, some pictures of what we had:-

More information:-

Opening hours: 1pm to 7pm on Monday, 9am to 7pm from Tuesday to Sunday.

Website: http://www.peranakanmuseum.sg/

[Extract from Internet info] History of Peranakans:-

Our Roots

The word “Peranakans” meaning “descendents” is colloquially used to refer to the descendents of the early Chinese community that settled in the Malay Archipelago around the 17th Century. Also known as “Babas” (the males) or “nonyas” (the females), they are typically of mixed parentage (between the Chinese men and native women), as Chinese women were restricted by law from leaving the main land (China) until sometime in the 19th Century. These communities lived and engaged in trade within the Straits settlements of Singapore, Malacca, Penang and even Dutch-controlled Java resulting in another name being commonly used to describe them – the “Straits Chinese”.
Our Culture

The Peranakan culture has evolved over the centuries into a unique blend of customs and traditions with traces of Portuguese, Dutch, British, Malay, Indonesian and Chinese influences. This includes their own pidgin language – mixture between “Bahasa Malayu” (the native language of the indigenous people of the region) and various Chinese dialects such as “Hokkien” – and of course the world’s most universal language – Food!

Our Food

Peranakan food involves a unique fusion of both Chinese and Malay elements (It is Chinese in that it retains the use of ingredients such as pork and it is Malay in that it uses malay styles of cooking as well as Malay spices or rempah in all its various dishes).

True Peranakan recipes are complicated affairs, requiring hours of preparation – cutting, chopping, skinning, pounding and grinding of raw, local Malay home-grown garden-produce ingredients like lengkuas, assam, bawang, cabai, serai, cukur, daun pandan and santan. Common cooking methods adopted from the Malays included panggang (smoke), goreng (fried), tumis (lightly fried) or rebus (boiled).

Peranakan recipes are usually spicy, employing pungent roots like lengkuas (galangal), turmeric and ginger; aromatic leaves like daun pandan (screwpine leaf), daun limau purut (fragrant lime leaf) and daun kesum (polygonum or laksa leaf); together with other ingredients like candlenuts, shallots, shrimp paste and chilli. Lemon, tamarind, belimbing (carambola) or green mangoes are used to add a tangy taste to many dishes.
The Peranakans are also renowned for their scrumptious and colourful cakes and sweet, sticky delicacies to end the meal. Nonya kueh or cakes are rich and varied, made from ingredients like sweet potato, glutinous rice, palm sugar and coconut milk.

Do check the website for more further if you are interested to know about Peranakans.

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