British Media Coverage Of Old Chang Kee’s London Store Is Hilarious AF Have you had a Cornish pasty before? If you’re shaking your head, think again. A British newspaper is calling the humble curry puff Singapore’s answer to a Cornish pasty. In its coverage of Old Chang Kee’s Covent Garden store opening, the Evening Standard wrote this week, [Old Chang Kee’s] signature dish is an Asian take on the Cornish pasty. [It’s a] a crispy, buttery parcel made from pastry filled with meat, potatoes and aromatic curry spices. No idea what a Cornish pasty is? Source But wait, isn’t that just an uglier curry puff? Nope, that actually is a Cornish pasty, a meat-filled pastry. So the Evening Standard might be right: the humble epok-epok might just be a Singaporean-ised version of a British treat. But as Ms Sandra Leong, director of Old Chang Kee UK puts it, the Singaporean version is more “fiery”. She continues, “Legend has it that chefs who worked for the Brits back then reinvented the pasty with our native herbs and spices. We like to think it’s one of the things the British regretted leaving behind, and now we cannot wait to bring it to Britain.” $3.50 curry puff We […]
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