Good morning,

Some guy at the pub said that British Singaporean Chow Mein is different from HK style Singaporean fried noodles (i.e. 星州炒米). Apparently the sauce is based on a madras curry, rather than the dry curry powder used in an HK version.

The irony is, living in Chinatown means I can actually only get legitimate and authentic Chinese food around here. Even with the beauty of deliveroo, it took me about 20 minutes of searching before I could find a truly English Chinese takeaway.

Cyril Ma @Cyrildoesthings

Had to order from another district. It's so chaotic <3 We stan' regional Chinese bastardizations

8:22 PM ∙ Aug 19, 2022

This is what they call suffering from success.

— Cyril

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