Best of Singapore Cooking - Tapa blanda

The very unique quality of Singapore cuisine makes it among the most favoured in the world. It gleans the best culinary styles from neighbouring countries and adapts them to suit the tastes of the discriminating local and the adventurous foreigner. Featuring all-time favourite dishes like Laksa Penang, Chilli Crab, Dim Sum and desserts like Chendol and Sago Pudding, this cookbook boasts a classic selection of Singapore's best recipes. These mouth-watering recipes were complied by Mrs Leong Yee Soo, acknowledged culinary matriarch who enjoyed a formidable reputation of being the foremost authority on Singapore food. Published in response to overwhelming demand for her recipes, this book is a fine testimony to her skills.

The late Mrs Leong Yee Soo represented the last bastion of Peranakan cooks whose attention to detail are legendary and for whom cooking skills were developed to a fine art. Having spent the major part of her life thinking about, experimenting with and teaching food preparation, Mrs Leong passed on the results of her years of research and experience in this wonderful collection of recipes.