Food Practices

Learn to Cook Our Heritage Food: Chwee Kueh

by Food Playground
15 May • 10:00am • Chinatown

Chwee kueh, topped with little gems of sweet and savoury cai poh (preserved radish), is one of a number of distinctly Singaporean breakfast dishes! Attend our hands-on cooking workshop to make your own steamed rice cake set!

Chwee Kueh

Stand by for May 15! Food Playground, a cooking school, will be rolling out a chwee kueh making class where you will be taught how to make the steamed rice cake, its “highly sought-after” topping of preserved radish and the chilli sauce that is usually served with it.

 

Number of participants: 16

Price: $40 per person

Food Playground

Food Playground is a cooking school offering both online and in-person cultural cooking classes and corporate team building workshops since 2012. Being a social enterprise, we provide flexi-work employment opportunities for stay-at-home mothers and active seniors who otherwise have limited avenues to return to the workforce by empowering these women through structured training to develop them into confident culinary instructors and corporate workshop facilitators.





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