Pls don't come, your local food not high class enough...
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dunno le.... i washing car at home.... ask mavia?Chocs;883812 said:
...wonder how's the event ....read it's raining in SG...
....Mock, u knw any updates anot ah....am very curious ...
Chocs
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Re: Pls don't come, your local food not high class enough...
..The Show goes on. Good. From Yahoo News.
With a mass waving of white napkins to signal the start of Diner en Blanc (The White Dinner), the posh pop-up picnic that recently stirred controversy in Singapore, took place on Thursday evening outside Marina Bay Sands.
Most of the 888 invitees who subscribed to the event seemed to have turned up – and some brought local food.
This comes after organizers of the event apologized for the error in saying on the event’s Facebook page that local food wasn’t welcome.
A food blogger said Friday he had been asked to remove a blog post recommending 12 typical Singapore food items, including tau huay, for the event.
Lennard Chan, 37, and his fiancee Candice Tan, 27, prepared homemade tau huay (beancurd), one of the items recommended by the blogger.
"We prepared tau huay and panna cotta to make our point that this is a fun-loving event. We wanted to have something local here and I feel that for us to be here, we're supporting an international event with local food," Chan said.
Chan's group of friends also brought mee siam, roast pork belly and char siew (barbequed pork) to the chi-chi picnic.
When it was time for the attendees to clink their wine glasses, Singaporeans being Singaporeans yelled (and dragged it for at least 10 seconds) yam-seng heartily and proudly.
Participants that Yahoo! Singapore spoke said they understood the controversies that took place before the event to be a huge miscommunication.
Cocktail bar Jigger & Pony owners Gan Kwok Yee, 28, and Indra Kantono, 29, said, "I think we should just have fun It's miscommunication here and there and we thought let's just ignore that and have fun here."
PhD student Deborah Choi, 23, said, "I get why it's controversial and I was pissed when I read what they said and thought wouldn't it make more sense to ban McDonalds because it's so common?"
"But when I found out about those other picnics, I thought that was really childish and I just stopped being sympathetic," Choi added.
The Founder of Diner en Blanc, frenchman Francois Pasquier, was also spotted with his family among the guests which was mostly made up of Asians.
His son, Aymeric Pasquier, told Yahoo! Singapore that despite the backlash, they decided to press on because they felt responsible for the problems.
He explained that there was a misunderstanding about what people are to bring to Diner en Blanc, and they thought they couldn't bring local food and had to bring white food -- which is absolutely not right.
"When there is a misunderstanding, what are you doing to do? You're going to explain it and say what you think, what your point of view is," the younger Pasquier said.
"In all Diner en Blanc, people are to mould the concept to their own culture. That's part of the philosophy of Diner en Blanc. We don't arrive here and tell you, you need to eat this, you need to think this," he added.
On why they chose Singapore to be the Asian debut of Diner en Blanc, Pasquier said it's because Singapore is commanding attention from around the world.
"We had this event in New York last year and New York was the window to the rest of the world. For Singapore, it's the same. Singapore is the window to the rest of Asia ... and for the first one, it's really important that we have a big window," he said.View attachment 40767
jerms;883896 said:
..The Show goes on. Good. From Yahoo News.
With a mass waving of white napkins to signal the start of Diner en Blanc (The White Dinner), the posh pop-up picnic that recently stirred controversy in Singapore, took place on Thursday evening outside Marina Bay Sands.
Most of the 888 invitees who subscribed to the event seemed to have turned up – and some brought local food.
This comes after organizers of the event apologized for the error in saying on the event’s Facebook page that local food wasn’t welcome.
A food blogger said Friday he had been asked to remove a blog post recommending 12 typical Singapore food items, including tau huay, for the event.
Lennard Chan, 37, and his fiancee Candice Tan, 27, prepared homemade tau huay (beancurd), one of the items recommended by the blogger.
"We prepared tau huay and panna cotta to make our point that this is a fun-loving event. We wanted to have something local here and I feel that for us to be here, we're supporting an international event with local food," Chan said.
Chan's group of friends also brought mee siam, roast pork belly and char siew (barbequed pork) to the chi-chi picnic.
When it was time for the attendees to clink their wine glasses, Singaporeans being Singaporeans yelled (and dragged it for at least 10 seconds) yam-seng heartily and proudly.
Participants that Yahoo! Singapore spoke said they understood the controversies that took place before the event to be a huge miscommunication.
Cocktail bar Jigger & Pony owners Gan Kwok Yee, 28, and Indra Kantono, 29, said, "I think we should just have fun It's miscommunication here and there and we thought let's just ignore that and have fun here."
PhD student Deborah Choi, 23, said, "I get why it's controversial and I was pissed when I read what they said and thought wouldn't it make more sense to ban McDonalds because it's so common?"
"But when I found out about those other picnics, I thought that was really childish and I just stopped being sympathetic," Choi added.
The Founder of Diner en Blanc, frenchman Francois Pasquier, was also spotted with his family among the guests which was mostly made up of Asians.
His son, Aymeric Pasquier, told Yahoo! Singapore that despite the backlash, they decided to press on because they felt responsible for the problems.
He explained that there was a misunderstanding about what people are to bring to Diner en Blanc, and they thought they couldn't bring local food and had to bring white food -- which is absolutely not right.
"When there is a misunderstanding, what are you doing to do? You're going to explain it and say what you think, what your point of view is," the younger Pasquier said.
"In all Diner en Blanc, people are to mould the concept to their own culture. That's part of the philosophy of Diner en Blanc. We don't arrive here and tell you, you need to eat this, you need to think this," he added.
On why they chose Singapore to be the Asian debut of Diner en Blanc, Pasquier said it's because Singapore is commanding attention from around the world.
"We had this event in New York last year and New York was the window to the rest of the world. For Singapore, it's the same. Singapore is the window to the rest of Asia ... and for the first one, it's really important that we have a big window," he said.View attachment 40767
