{"id":40621,"date":"2026-03-31T10:43:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T02:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=40621"},"modified":"2026-03-31T10:43:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T02:43:36","slug":"first-look-at-newly-opened-1887-by-andre-chiang-at-raffles-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=40621","title":{"rendered":"First look at newly-opened 1887 by Andre Chiang at Raffles Hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cThe more I look, the more inspiration I have. Like, just now, I flipped through the archive and saw they served a \u2018wild rose ice cream\u2019. I thought, \u2018Wow, they were so creative&#8217;. I immediately had the image of how I was going to do a wild rose ice cream.\u201d He added, \u201cThis history, these stories, shouldn&#8217;t be buried somewhere in the archives. We should be able to give it life, so people can savour it and say, \u2018This is a flavour from 130 years ago\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That said, \u201cWe\u2019re not trying to restore history, but rather, we get a lot of inspiration from it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For example, a discovery of turtle soup on a menu from 1917 \u2014 the dish was haute cuisine and a status marker at the time \u2014 led him to interpret the dish in his own way. \u201cTurtle Soup from 1887\u201d is not made with turtle at all, but rather double-boiled chicken, grouper and herbs. \u201cIf I blindfolded you, you would think it was turtle soup,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/experiences\/andre-chiang-1887-raffles-hotel-restaurant-opens-6023246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe more I look, the more inspiration I have. Like, just now, I flipped through the archive and saw they served a \u2018wild rose ice&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--6911n73I--\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/fl_relative,g_south_east,l_mediacorp:cna:watermark:2021-08:cna,w_0.1\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2026\/03\/30\/ray_3907_copy.jpg?itok=uK2u894b","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[19371,17712,1095,13815,2305],"class_list":["post-40621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-andre","tag-chiang","tag-hotel","tag-newlyopened","tag-raffles","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40621","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=40621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}