The Way of Kueh: Christopher Tan hopes to preserve Singapore’s culinary heritage

Anyone who has spent time in Singapore (or Malaysia) and eaten the array of enticing sweets known collectively as kueh will be excited about The Way of Kueh – Savouring & Saving Singapore’s Heritage Desserts (2019). Singaporean food writer and cooking instructor Christopher Tan explains that “kueh” means “cake”, but not as it is known in the West, where it is usually made from wheat flour, butter and eggs and baked.In Southeast Asia, kueh can be sweet or savoury (sometimes both), and made from…