Thursday, November 15, 2012

REAL LOVE WORKS: Heavenly Chef Hooi Kok Wai and wife


Publication: Real Love Works (Magazine for Marriage Central, a Government agency which promotes marriage in Singapore)
Date: November 2012 / January 2013
Title: The dragon and the phoenix

Description: Interview with famed Singapore "Heavenly Chef" Hooi Kok Wai and his wife Leong Ah Lin, on their marriage of over 50 years.

Extract: It is a courtship story worthy of a screenplay: Rewind to 1960, when a young chef in love with a fair maiden needed to win the favour of his sweetheart's guardian, a Buddhist nun. He decided he would cook a dish the nun had never eaten before.




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