Meet Sun Kim, the ambitious, humble chef behind Meta, located in restaurant-packed Keong Saik Road in Singapore's Chinatown, offering French-influenced cuisine with a distinctly Korean inflection.
This year saw a lot of travel as we kicked off the year traveling around Southeast Asia for six weeks, visiting India, Singapore, southern Thailand and Vietnam. We ate a lot of incredible food on our inaugural visit to Vietnam, many of which made it here. There was always fish sauce on the table and, on occasion, a “grand cru” from Phu Quoc.
Singapore is no stranger to specialty coffee. It has become increasingly easy to find a good cuppa. The city has also taken a liking to cocktails, and while the New York influence is inescapable, many of these "speakeasies" and cocktail bars bring their own originality, both to the cocktails and the space.
How can we talk about Singapore and not talk about hawker centers? Well, that’s kinda the point of this post. We love Singapore for the mix of fantastic hawker center fare and international cuisine from around the world. This time we want to highlight just the latter, from our most recent visits.
I’ll admit that I was at first skeptical of hawker centers, wondering what the government’s underlying agenda was in a country that seems to have everything in perfect order...
Until our recent 7-week trip through India and southeast Asia neither of us had ever traveled for longer than a two-week period at a time, making for all sorts of new experiences, not just during our travels, but also while preparing. How to pack for 7 weeks?
Meet Sun Kim, the ambitious, humble chef behind Meta, located in restaurant-packed Keong Saik Road in Singapore's Chinatown, offering French-influenced cuisine with a distinctly Korean inflection.