The Singapore Food Festival (SFF), one in every of the most highly- anticipated occasions on each foodie’s calendar, returns for its twenty eighth version over three weekends from 27 August to 12 September 2021 with the theme ‘Savour Singapore In Every Bite’. The solely pageant in Singapore devoted to native delicacies and F&B expertise, it continues to innovate, bringing foodies greater than 50 gastronomic and consuming experiences on a hybrid platform. This is double the quantity in comparison with final 12 months’s digital version.
An thrilling breadth of reside masterclasses, each free-to-view and paid, will convey native and worldwide audiences along with a few of the most nicely-identified cooks in Singapore’s culinary scene. Foodies may work up an urge for food via curated strolling excursions to indulge in tales of culinary heritage and invention; peel again the layers to uncover new flavours via recipe movies and unique meals bundles; and discover Singapore via digital experiences and docu-options.
SFF 2021 is a spotlight of the SingapoRediscovers marketing campaign, and encourages locals to rediscover the breadth and depth of Singapore’s flavour tapestry, our sustainability centered F&B experiences and new progressive takes on native delicacies.
Programme highlights
This 12 months’s pageant line up contains 4 parts: Live Masterclasses, Virtual Food Experiences, Partner Events and Workshops, and SFF meals merchandise.
Live Masterclasses
The Live Masterclasses provide viewers the alternative to study from a few of the finest cooks, bartenders, and meals personalities in Singapore’s culinary scene.
Festival-goers can be a part of the 9 free-to-view reside masterclasses hosted on SFF 2021’s Facebook web page or join intimate and interactive periods with famend cooks by becoming a member of the 9 pay-to- view reside masterclasses.
The thrilling line-up options prime names in the F&B scene in Singapore and round Asia, together with:
- GraspChef Singapore 2018 decide Bjorn Shen of Artichoke and Le Cordon Bleu-trained chef JP Anglo of Sarsa from the Philippines, who can be presenting a 4-palms collaboration with their rendition of an oyster omelette;
- Chef Lim Hoe Gern of Laut and movie star chef Thitid Tassanakajohn, the artistic mastermind behind Thailand’s one-Michelin star Le Du with their 4-palms collaboration dish – the umami laden Prawn Raja;
- Hawkerpreneur Douglas Ng of the Fishball Story will reveal the secrets and techniques behind his handmade conventional Hakka yong tau fu (conventional Hakka dish consisting primarily of tofu stuffed with floor meat combination or fish paste);
- Chef Jeremy Gillon of 1 Michelin-starred restaurant JAG will show the course of of constructing tender ravioli from scratch
- Chef Maxine Ngooi of Tigerlily Patisserie will convey a twist to the babka loaf, with a stuffing of fragrant buah keluak rempah (spice mix of the seeds of the buah keluak fruit);
- Pastry professional Mohammed Al-Matin of Le Matin Patisserie will current a singular goreng pisang (banana fritter) dessert.
Selected masterclasses will even provide ingredient containers and meals bundles that contributors should purchase and get delivered to their doorstep in Bangkok, Chengdu, Manila and Singapore, permitting them to cook dinner up a storm with their favorite meals expertise on display screen for a really partaking expertise.
Virtual Food Experiences
As a part of SFF, there will even be Virtual Food Experiences in interactive codecs for native and worldwide pageant-goers. Take a deeper dive into the ins-and-outs of progressive companies reminiscent of Kok Fah Farm via a docu-function, which takes foodies on a tour round the soil and hydroponics farm, and recipe movies like Kitchen Insider: Sustenir, which educate foodies on trendy farming in Singapore, suggesting methods to include native produce into on a regular basis dishes, supercharging it with diet. Additionally, foodies can sit up for a journey of rediscovery as they feast their eyes on delectable dishes in the digital meals excursions of Little India and Tiong Bahru offered by common meals host, Nikki Muller.
Some of those digital excursions will even be offered in bodily codecs as a part of Partner Events held throughout the island. Foodies who love exploring can rediscover the wealthy culinary heritage ingrained in our land and immerse in idyllic foodie experiences via curated strolling excursions.
Learn extra about the vibrant spices that go into Indian dishes at the Heritage Tour of Little India, or embark on the Kim Guan Guan Factory Tour, to uncover the historical past and heritage behind the brewing and roasting of one in every of Singapore’s oldest kopi (espresso) suppliers.
Check out the Singapore Vegan Festival too, for native vegan meals excursions, talks and panel discussions that includes native and worldwide professional audio system. Indulge in restricted interval plant-primarily based menus throughout main vegan and vegan-pleasant eating places in Singapore, curated for vegans, the intrigued and nearly everyone else. Secret Suppers await those that are sport, with secret menus by eating places round Singapore from Little India and Joo Chiat, to Chinatown and Kampong Gelam.
Partner Events and Workshops
For a palms-on expertise, SFF workshops are additionally out there islandwide. Peel again the layers of kueh-making and take a look at your hand at making the conventional crimson turtle cake Nyonya- fashion at the Make your individual Ang Ku Kueh Workshop by Ji Xiang Ang Ku Kueh, held at CapitaLand Bugis Town (Part of Bugis Street).
Repurpose meals waste at the Summer Fruit Peel Popsicle and Jam Class and study extra about meals upcycling once you be a part of the WellSpent Workshop – each at Sunrice Academy. For cocktail lovers, Museum of Ice Cream’s MOIC Cocktail and Ice Cream Pairing Workshop: Sips and Scoops will take you on a candy journey to combine your individual Hendrick’s Gin and ice cream cocktails.
SFF Food Merchandise
Foodies will even be handled to SFF Food Merchandise. Local small-batch granola model, Nommish has partnered with Kim Guan Guan to current Kopi Granola and their very own rendition of Milo Granola – the Malted Chocolate Granola. Home of Singaporean impressed cookies, Old Seng Choong has developed Nyonya Sambal Nasi Lemak Cookies, which is a singular rendition of the nicely-liked basic native dish. Paying tribute to the iconic pandan flavour that Singaporeans love, the LiHO TEA’s Singa-Pandan Lime and Singa-Pandan Shake, can be out there in LiHO shops in Singapore, Brunei, Malaysia, and Shanghai.
For extra particulars, go to the official Singapore Food Festival 2021 web site.
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