{"id":49045,"date":"2026-05-02T01:18:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T17:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=49045"},"modified":"2026-05-02T01:18:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T17:18:51","slug":"mandarin-speaking-indian-hawker-allows-diners-to-bring-their-own-seafood-to-his-zi-char-stall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=49045","title":{"rendered":"Mandarin-Speaking Indian Hawker Allows Diners To Bring Their Own Seafood To His Zi Char Stall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>If you\u2019ve ever gone fishing or bought fresh seafood and had no idea how to cook it, this new Chinatown <a href=\"https:\/\/www.8days.sg\/eatanddrink\/newsandreviews\/westlake-restaurant-kong-bak-bao-third-gen-owner-856496\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">zi char<\/a> stall might be for you.<\/p>\n<p>At XH Delicious Seafood, which opened on April 20, customers can bring their own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.8days.sg\/eatanddrink\/hawkerfood\/commonwealth-crab-talk-fai-kee-live-seafood-hawker-collab-856541\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seafood to be cooked on-site<\/a>. The coffeeshop stall is currently chef-owner Devid Retanasamy\u2019s only outlet, with the 42-year-old handling all the cooking himself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can cook it [in] any pattern you like,\u201d Devid, who also goes by Xiao Hei, tells <a href=\"https:\/\/www.8days.sg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">8days.sg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Devid first gained attention in 2020 after being featured in Chinese daily Lianhe Wanbao, where many were intrigued by an Indian hawker fluent in Mandarin and Cantonese, who cooked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.8days.sg\/eatanddrink\/celebfoodies\/hossan-leong-jb-food-taman-pelangi-bee-hoon-best-zichar-855896\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">zi char dishes<\/a> like chilli crab.<\/p>\n<p><em>No part of this story or photos can be reproduced without permission from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.8days.sg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">8days.sg<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  { if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n   n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n   if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n   n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n   t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n   s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n   'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n   fbq('init', '686778738188379');\n   fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.8days.sg\/eatanddrink\/hawkerfood\/xh-delicious-seafood-chinatown-bring-own-seafood-zi-char-mandarin-indian-hawker-857356\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve ever gone fishing or bought fresh seafood and had no idea how to cook it, this new Chinatown zi char stall might be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49046,"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-49045","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\/49045","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=49045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}