Swiss woman says she feels cheated that a 'Swiss restaurant' in Singapore did not sell Swiss foods

mtp

@samir @skinnylatte I’m generally surprised by how good of non-Swiss/European cuisine I can get in Switzerland. It usually about doing the research and not relying on ratings weighted upward from Europeans.

There are a lot of bad places to go here to be sure, but the gems are enough to keep me from losing my mind. TBH, this place punches way above its weight when compared to Berlin where I lived before in this regard.

Adrianna Tan

@samir @matt my favorite empanada place in sf is an Argentinian person who makes empanada with extra butter (because of her French pastry training). So good

samir, lost in the woods

@matt @skinnylatte Totally! There’s a few fucking great restaurants, and I appreciate them very much.

(Except Malaysian. I’m yet to find good Malaysian food. I would appreciate tips.)

Adrianna Tan

@samir @matt Malaysians don’t tend to open restaurants abroad but

Very often there will be a ‘Singapore / Malaysia’ fb group where sometimes people will sell dishes. I’ll see if my friends at the embassy know anything hehe

Peter Sommerlad

@skinnylatte
I don't understand people who travel to a country B, being from country A and then go to a restaurant claiming to serve food from A.

In 1988 when being in Singapore we only went to an "Italian restaurant " the first night after arriving there, because we never experienced Asian food then. Never after that day. Hawker centers are great, as well as being taken to fancy Chinese restaurants by locals.

We learned to admire spicy Asian food then!
Thank you Singapore.

Adrianna Tan

@PeterSommerlad there’s nothing wrong with trying all cuisines especially in very global cities with all sorts of food. Singapore has pretty great French and Italian restaurants. Same in Bangkok / Tokyo. Of course everyone should eat whatever they want, it’s just very deeply weird to expect good Swiss food: I dont know that really exists outside of Switzerland and Germany.