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Some­body gave me a book writ­ten by a Sin­ga­pore author, pub­lished ear­lier this year. Haven’t read it yet, but it does seem fit­ting that the Great Sin­ga­pore Novel turns out to be food related! She has writ­ten for my favourite paper the New York Times, so she should def­i­nitely be capa­ble of turn­ing out good prose. […]

“A lob­ster bisque ought to be the crown­ing glory of the potager. And this one was excel­lent. Silky as a gigolo’s com­pli­ment and fishy as a chancellor’s promise.” — AA Gill

“I asked for seafood cock­tail to start and got aspara­gus. I ordered a risotto to fol­low and got seafood cock­tail. They were both so good I didn’t even men­tion it. Joan Collins ordered a Cos­mopoli­tan cock­tail, got some­thing entirely dif­fer­ent. Not impor­tant.” — Michael Winner  

It’ll be inter­est­ing to see how this all works out in the long run.

Rea­son Num­ber 133 for din­ing out with Makan­Deals: Because we avoid the stupidly hoity