Lai Wah Restaurant

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The world's first restaurant to bring you famous dishes such as Chinese New Year Yu-Sheng (鱼生), Yam Pot with Shredded Meat (佛钵飘香), Mandarin Stewed Chicken ( 京都镡子鸡), and many more .. including Chilli Crabs* ...

* : chillis crabs were invented by Palm Beach, but the Four Heavenly Kings (of whom Two Kings were at Lai Wah Restaurant) modified the sauce into the version that Singaporeans love, with chilli sambal, tomato sauce, stock, a hint of vinegar, eggs, onions and spring onions

Latest

Nov 2011 Published 2012's Chinese New Year (CNY) menu

Mar 2011 MediaCorp magazine "8 Days" Eat out guide "BITE" interviews Lai Wah

29 Jan 2011 MediaCorp's TODAY interviews Lai Wah

15 Dec 2010 Food directory "Singapore Time To Eat 2011" interviews Lai Wah

23 Aug 2010 MediaCorp's Chinese weekly magazine I-weekly interviews Lai Wah

24 July 2010 Hosted 2010 Singapore Food Festival Demo Master Class, Cantonese cuisines.

With renowened celebrity food-crtiic Makansutra KF Seetoh

19 July 2010 Comedian-actor / celebrity-entrepreneur Irene Ang interviews Lai Wah

17 July 2010 Hong Kong daily papers "Apple Daily" interviews Lai Wah

14 May 2010 Award-winning food blog ieatishootipost (Dr Leslie Tay) interviews Lai Wah

Jan-Feb 2010 Singapore Top 5 YuSheng, voting organised by hungrygowhere and Standard Chartered

21 Nov 2009 3-week Indoor renovation completed

17 Oct 2009 SPH RazorTV interviews Lai Wah

About The Restaurant

48 years of experience / 48 年老字号

Lai Wah Restaurant at 377C to 383C Jalan Besar was opened in Sep 1963 by the late Mr Wong Kok Lum 黄国林, with smaller shareholders --- Mr Tham Yui Kai 谭锐佳 and Mr Lau Yoke Pui 刘育培 --- two of the Four Heavenly Kings of Singapore Cantonese culinary（饮食界 �四大天王�）

VIP was Mrs Lee Chin Koon / Mdm Chua Jim Neo (李進坤夫人蔡认娘女士) mother of Singapore's Minister Mentor and former Prime Minister Lee Kwan Yew (李光耀）.

12 noon, 14 Oct 1970 (Wed) - Lai Wah Restaurant at Block 44 #01-1436 Bendemeer Road was opened.

VIP was again Mrs Lee Chin Koon / Mdm Chua Jim Neo (李進坤夫人蔡认娘女士) mother of Singapore's Minister Mentor and former Prime Minister Lee Kwan Yew (李光耀）.

Now, Lai Wah Restaurant at Bendemeer Road is run by the descendants of the late founder Mr Wong Kok Lum --- Mr Wong Kah Onn, the eldest son, and his wife Mrs Helen Wong-Lim

(click to see video)

Makansutra SFF Culinary Master Classes

Date: 24 July 2010 (Saturday)
Time: 9.30am - 11.30am
Dishes Demonstrated: Cantonese Classic

Lai Wah Restaurant was the world's 1st restaurant to serve Chinese New Year Yu-Sheng in 1964.

Lai Wah also invented the modern-day method of serving Yu Sheng with a pre-mixed special sauce comprising plum sauce, rice vinegar, kumquat paste and sesame oil --- instead of customers mixing inconsistently-concocted sauce.

Reference :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yusheng

TODAY 29 Jan 2011 Page 3

i-weekly issue 669 26 Aug 2010 Page 2

Shin Min Daily 15 Feb 2003 Page 24

Lian He Wan Bao 17 Feb 1996 Page 34

Sin Chew Jit Poh 27 Jan 1979 Page 11

(click to see video)

17 October, 2009

To toss a good yusheng (Food feud Ep 3.4)

[04:00]

When the Four Heavenly Chefs of Singapore created the iconic dish yusheng - a raw fish salad eaten during Chinese New Year - they didn't know they were making history. What's the secret to a top-notch platter of yusheng? Find out from the owner of Lai Wah Restaurant, where two of the Heavenly Chefs were from.

In 1960s , the other 2 famous dishes that we invented

Yam Pot with Shredded Meat (佛钵飘香) and

Mandarin Stewed Chicken ( 京都镡子鸡)

costs only S$5 !!

(see our 1960s menu)