{"id":21853,"date":"2025-12-21T14:58:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T06:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=21853"},"modified":"2025-12-21T14:58:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T06:58:41","slug":"putien-founder-fong-chi-chungs-eye-on-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=21853","title":{"rendered":"Putien founder Fong Chi Chung&#8217;s eye on China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Fong Chi Chung\u2019s eye for detail is impressive. Lunch is over and the table has been cleared. The founder of the Putien Group of restaurants and his two sons settle in for the video segment of our interview.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Mr Fong scans the table: plastic cups of water and two half-finished plastic bottles of barley drink. The colours are too dull for his liking. He turns to an employee. \u201cLet\u2019s get different colours,\u201d he says in Mandarin, gesturing at the drinks. He wants the table to look brighter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"tags-test-id\">\n<p><button data-testid=\"button-test-id\" class=\"layer-one border-default border interactive-button text-primary disabled:layer-disabled hover:disabled:layer-disabled default\" aria-label=\"button for Lunch with Sumiko\"><span class=\"font-button-md-semibold\">Lunch with Sumiko<\/span><\/button><button data-testid=\"button-test-id\" class=\"layer-one border-default border interactive-button text-primary disabled:layer-disabled hover:disabled:layer-disabled default\" aria-label=\"button for Restaurants\/Eateries\"><span class=\"font-button-md-semibold\">Restaurants\/Eateries<\/span><\/button><button data-testid=\"button-test-id\" class=\"layer-one border-default border interactive-button text-primary disabled:layer-disabled hover:disabled:layer-disabled default\" aria-label=\"button for Family businesses\"><span class=\"font-button-md-semibold\">Family businesses<\/span><\/button><button data-testid=\"button-test-id\" class=\"layer-one border-default border interactive-button text-primary disabled:layer-disabled hover:disabled:layer-disabled default\" aria-label=\"button for Food and beverage sector\"><span class=\"font-button-md-semibold\">Food and beverage sector<\/span><\/button><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/why-putien-restaurant-founder-keeps-one-eye-on-china\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fong Chi Chung\u2019s eye for detail is impressive. Lunch is over and the table has been cleared. The founder of the Putien Group of restaurants&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}