Go Peranakan at your next high tea

Treat yourself to Nyonya desserts with the Pay 1 Dine 2 Afternoon High Tea at Hari's Bar Lobby & Lounge.  

Source: Holiday Inn Singapore Orchard City Centre. Pink kuih lapis is on the menu at the Nyonya Delights Pay 1 Dine 2 High Tea.

The new dessert menu features Peranakan items crafted from authentic ingredients. Look for the kuih lapis or layered cake—a traditional snack of colourful layers of soft rice-flour pudding. Another favourite is the ang ku kueh, or red tortoise cake, so called because the small, rounded sweet dumpling is shaped like a tortoise shell. Traditionally presented on a square piece of banana leaf, the soft, sticky glutinous rice flour skin encases a sweet filling.

Signature buttery English scones served with jam and cream are also available.

Details

Holiday Inn Singapore Orchard City Centre

11 Cavenagh Road, Singapore 229616

Nyonya Delights Pay 1 Dine 2 High Tea

Mondays to Sundays | 12 pm to 5 pm

Lobby Lounge & Bar

Adults S$78++ (cost for two adult diners under the Pay 1 Dine 2 promotion)

Call +65 6733 8333 to make a reservation.

The art of nyonya needlework uncovered at Singapore's Peranakan Museum

Source Peranakan Museum website: Example of nyonya needlework.

Nyonya Needlework: Embroidery and Beadwork in the Peranakan World is on at Singapore's Peranakan Museum till 26 March 2017.

This exhibition celebrates the art of nyonya needlework, a very visible part of Peranakan Chinese heritage. Spectacular curtains and hangings, delicate purses, handkerchiefs, and slippers are painstakingly stitched with miniscule beads, silk, plus gold and silver threads and used for special occasions or given as gifts.

Some of the finest examples of nyonya needlework, from the Peranakan Museum and major international collections, will be displayed.

Interested?

The Peranakan Museum is open 10am to 7pm Mondays to Thursdays and weekends and from 10am to 9pm on Fridays

View pricing details and tour/workshop timings (includes admission to the permanent galleries)

Air Asia offers free Penang travel guide

Budget airline Air Asia has published a travel guide for the island of Penang that can be downloaded for free.

Source: Air Asia e-DM.

Penang in Malaysia is well known for its unique cuisine, UNESCO World Heritage-listed George Town, and Peranakan culture. The guide can help event organisers plan visits there, and covers:

• Food
• Art, Heritage, Crafts & Cafés
• Lifestyle & Nature
• Getting Around
• Calendar of Events

Download the guide here. Base fares for the four flights daily from Singapore to Penang, at the time of writing, cost S$5. The promotion ends 7 September.