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In the 1940s, Cher Yam Tian was steaming the crabs her husband, a policeman... her husband got tired of the taste of steamed crab and asked for an addition. At first, she tried tomato sauce but he found this too sweet. She added some chilli and he was satisfied...
It makes a lot of sense that one could find really great Singaporean food in Zürich given the international reach of Switzerland's financial capital and its interconnectedness with other hubs of global finance.
Taiwan's national dish, beef noodle soup, is a byproduct of China's civil war and the exodus of the Kuomintang or Chinese National Party from mainland China... veterans from Sichuan province who fled to Kaohsiung, Taiwan are credited with the creation...
There is something about hot, spicy food on hot summer days that reminds us why we are alive... Simon Says Taste Taiwan is one such oasis in Zürich serving delicacies from the free and democratic island that authoritarian China claims as its own.
Before there was talk of a global south, or an Inquisition, before even the Conquistadores set sail for the new world, there were ancient peoples taking raw fish off the Atlantic coast of Peru "cooked" with just a bit of acid, later citrus, in fishermen's hamlets.
