Adrianna TanIt’s been many years but I still believe this blog is my North Star for food in Singapore and Johor. I primarily get my local food knowledge from him (and my parents)
Here he reviews a family member’s wanton noodle stall. It has a Michelin bib gourmand (they don’t give stars to hawkers, they give these)
Yong Chun is my mum’s cousin’s stall and they work so hard and finally got the accolades.
Tony in this post compares their noodles and dumplings with another in the same market.
Honestly we are so lucky to have food like this, easily accessible, plentiful and delicious. I miss it every single day
https://johorkaki.blogspot.com/2026/05/yong-chun-wan-ton-noodle-vs-kim-huat.html
I feel like people like Tony and my parents who probably remember a time when we were the same country
Had much more of a ‘cross border’ view relating to food and politics.
My grandma had no idea she had changed countries. She said ‘I just took the bus’
The countries changed around her.
I feel like people my age and younger have much more of a concrete definition of ‘Malaysia’ and ‘Singapore’ (and our leaders probably want it that way) but in reality, we share a lot of heritage and roots and people
sengming@skinnylatte some of us share a surname too.