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loving memory of my mother
whose perseverance and
talents gave me something
to write about.
Cheang Siew Geok Neo
(19302001)
Designer: Lynn Chin
Photographer: Joshua Tan, Elements By The Box
Recipe Testing & Food Preparation: Dorothy Wong
Singapore Heritage Society: , image of Cheang Hong Lim from the book One Hundred
Years History of the Chinese in Singapore by Sir Song Ong Siang
Chan Kim Hong Neo and Chia Gin Tee
Reprinted 2013
An imprint of Marshall Cavendish International
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Publisher has reviewed each recipe carefully, the reader may not always achieve the results desired due
to variations in ingredients, cooking temperatures and individual cooking abilities. The Publisher shall in
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Growing up in a Nonya kitchen : Singapore recipes from my mother / Sharon Wee.
Singapore : Marshall Cavendish Cuisine, 2012.
p. cm.
Includes index.
eISBN : 978 981 4435 00 0
641.595957 -- dc22
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hundreds of recipes. She had our family heirloom
recipes, orally passed down for generations,
transcribed many times by daughters and
maids. When I was growing up, I was tasked with
reading aloud my mothers recipes just before
she cooked those dishes, so I knew the favourite
versions that she referred to most often.
I was often motivated enough to wake up at 3 am to
cook for family and friends and soon realised that
perhaps, I should compile her recipes for posterity.
simple idea of a spiral bound compilation for my nieces,
consisting of my mothers most popular recipes. I vividly
remember that we sifted through stacks of paper, I then
scanned the trusted copies with a vintage machine.
Armed with the bulging plastic folder of documents, I
flew back to New York, back to my MBA classes for the
next few months, putting aside this personal project for
when I had the time.
that I could pick up my mothers techniques a few
months later over Christmas. Perhaps then, I could also
combine the baking lessons as she geared up for Chinese
New Year. Nonetheless, I enrolled in the first of many
cooking classes at the end of August 2001 because I
wanted to sharpen my basic skills, like how to make
the perfect French omelette! It was during that fateful
period that I had to rush home to Singapore because my
mother had become seriously ill. She passed away three
months later. I was never to learn alongside her.
many of her best-kept cooking secrets to her grave. And
like many Nonyas of my generation, I was more fixated
mother. I could not boast that I had learnt to cook under
my mothers tutelage.
through her belongings and documented all her cake
moulds, pots and pans and collection of cookbooks. I
hurried through her decades-old recipes, stripping them
out of their plastic files and lumping them into storage
boxes. Then I hand-carried them all back to New York,
with the plan that someday I would study them more
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