{"id":35048,"date":"2026-03-10T07:38:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T23:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=35048"},"modified":"2026-03-10T07:38:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T23:38:48","slug":"nipcooks-this-was-my-most-memorable-meal-from-my-last-trip-to-singapore-and-hon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=35048","title":{"rendered":"@nipcooks This was my most memorable meal from my last trip to Singapore and hon&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n@nipcooks <\/p>\n<p>This was my most memorable meal from my last trip to Singapore and honestly, it was such a random find at Maxwell Food Centre. I wasn\u2019t planning to film this. I just felt something when I stood there. So I started talking to them. And then to their regulars. What I realised pretty quickly is that this isn\u2019t just food, this is old-school Singapore. The kind of cuisine a lot of travellers walk right past without knowing what they\u2019re missing. With a bit of digging, I learned that this is one of the last remaining hawker stalls of its kind. A story that spans over 100 years. It survived world wars, multiple relocations and now, this will likely be the final cycle of owners, as their son won\u2019t be taking it forward. That hit me. Because when places like this disappear, we don\u2019t just lose food, we lose recipes, techniques, and stories that have been carried for generations. The plate itself felt timeless. No trends. No gimmicks. Just flavours that have been done the same way for a very, very long time. This stall is Hup Kee Wu Xiang Guan Chang (\u5408\u8bb0\u4e94\u9999\u8d2f\u80a0), located at Maxwell Food Centre, 1 Kadayanallur Street. I already know, the next time I land in Singapore, this will be the first thing I eat. And I\u2019ll be stopping by to say hi to this wonderful couple who so generously shared their story with me. If you\u2019re in Singapore, please go visit them. And if anyone out there is willing to share or help preserve these recipes, I\u2019d be more than happy to cook them, test them, and help keep this legacy alive. #singapore #cook #cooking #singaporefood<\/p>\n<p> \u266c original sound &#8211; Nipcooks<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@nipcooks\/video\/7600012911553105159\" data-video-id=\"7600012911553105159\" data-embed-from=\"oembed\" style=\"max-width:605px; min-width:325px;\">\n<section> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"@nipcooks\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@nipcooks?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">@nipcooks<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>This was my most memorable meal from my last trip to Singapore and honestly, it was such a random find at Maxwell Food Centre. I wasn\u2019t planning to film this. I just felt something when I stood there. So I started talking to them. And then to their regulars. What I realised pretty quickly is that this isn\u2019t just food, this is old-school Singapore. The kind of cuisine a lot of travellers walk right past without knowing what they\u2019re missing. With a bit of digging, I learned that this is one of the last remaining hawker stalls of its kind. A story that spans over 100 years. It survived world wars, multiple relocations and now, this will likely be the final cycle of owners, as their son won\u2019t be taking it forward. That hit me. Because when places like this disappear, we don\u2019t just lose food, we lose recipes, techniques, and stories that have been carried for generations. The plate itself felt timeless. No trends. No gimmicks. Just flavours that have been done the same way for a very, very long time. This stall is Hup Kee Wu Xiang Guan Chang (\u5408\u8bb0\u4e94\u9999\u8d2f\u80a0), located at Maxwell Food Centre, 1 Kadayanallur Street. I already know, the next time I land in Singapore, this will be the first thing I eat. And I\u2019ll be stopping by to say hi to this wonderful couple who so generously shared their story with me. If you\u2019re in Singapore, please go visit them. And if anyone out there is willing to share or help preserve these recipes, I\u2019d be more than happy to cook them, test them, and help keep this legacy alive. <a title=\"singapore\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/singapore?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">#singapore<\/a> <a title=\"cook\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/cook?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">#cook<\/a> <a title=\"cooking\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/cooking?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">#cooking<\/a> <a title=\"singaporefood\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/singaporefood?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">#singaporefood<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u266c original sound - Nipcooks\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/music\/original-sound-7600012969670085396?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">\u266c original sound &#8211; Nipcooks<\/a> <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Tap Video and \ud83d\udd08 To Unmute<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@nipcooks\/video\/7600012911553105159\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tiktok <\/a> Credits <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@nipcooks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@nipcooks This was my most memorable meal from my last trip to Singapore and honestly, it was such a random find at Maxwell Food Centre&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[17703,2106,17702,17701,91,22,308],"class_list":["post-35048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-eats-hungry","tag-hon","tag-meal","tag-memorable","tag-nipcooks","tag-sg-food","tag-singapore","tag-trip","wpcat-90-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35048","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=35048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}