Sakura chicken. This brand of chicken is widely available in Singapore now at some of the high end restaurants. What is so unique about this chicken? read about this chicken on: Spirit of Enterprise. Pic above, Sakura Chicken Rice at Sky on 57, top of Marina Bay Sands.
Humble Japanese, trying to de-mystify Singapore cuisine and food culture. This is not a restaurant / stall rating blog.
8.29.2011
サクラチキン Sakura Chicken
数年前からよく「さくらチキン」というブランド鳥をシンガポールで耳にする。ちょっとしたレストランでは「サクラチキンのホニャラララ」とった具合で鳥のブランドをアピールしている。なんだ、このサクラチキンというのは?色々検索をして、この鳥の製造元である、Kee Song社にたどり着いたが、ホームページではあまり詳しい事は記載されていない。分かっている事は、日本の最先端技術を使っており、餌には乳酸菌を使用しているそうだ。ますます、興味が・・・更に調べた。2007年からマーケットに出回るようになったこの鳥。餌に入っているこの乳酸菌は、鳥の免疫力をアップするので様々な病気にかかりにくくなるそうだ。他の養鶏所のように大量の抗生物質や成長ホルモンを一切使用せず、良質の餌に拘っているという。鳥が育つ環境にも力を入れている。とにかく、人とあまり接しないという事が大事で、色々なところはオートメーション化されていう。更に自社の養鶏所では、鳥にストレスを与えないために、モーツァルトをきかせているそうだ。日本の和牛のような環境にしているという。なるほど。そのサクラチキンだが、コレステロールが低く、脂肪も控え目だが、味わい深いとの事。写真はマリナベイサンズの57階にあるレストラン、Sky on 57のサクラチキンライス。
8.23.2011
Singapore's Food Supply シンガポールの食料自給事情を考える
All I did was eat in Singapore -shame on me. I have never thought seriously about Singapore's food self sufficiency level. I simply assumed that majority of the food stuffs were imported from Malaysia to feed 5 million people living in Singapore. But logically speaking, if you rely heavily on one nation for imports, there will be problem (like Singapore-Malaysia water relations). Diversification is of course necessary. Yet the fact remains that Singapore is dependent on imports for food. Now, relying heavily on imported food means in the future Singapore will face a big challenge as securing food will be much more difficult. Food self sufficiency level is less than 10% in Singapore, meaning Singapore produces less than 10% of the food it consumes. AVA is trying to boost production and it is AVA's top priority at the moment -seafood from 4% to 15%, eggs from 23% to 30% and leafy vegetables from 7% to 10%. I'd say the seafood boost from 4 % to 15% is very aggressive. Local farm raised seafood items include grouper, snapper, seabass, milkfish, green mussels, shrimp and mangrove crabs. Apparently though, Singapore is the capital of ornamental fish -the one that sells for higher price but can't be eaten! Local veggies are caixin, kailan, kang kong, xiao bai cai, bean sprouts and so on. So where does all the foodstuff come from? According to an article I read in the Japanese Embassy of Singapore website, majority of chicken is from Brazil and Malaysia. Pork - Indonesia and Australia, seafood -Indonesia and Malaysia, veggies -Malaysia, Indonesia and China (certainly there are other countries which exports food to Singapore in a smaller scale). According to AVA figures, during 1970's in terms of self sufficiency, the production of poultry was 80%, egg 100% and pork 104%!
My worry is that when global food crisis do occur and the food prices soar, individual food stalls at coffee shops and hawker centres will be greatly affected as compared to food giants that operate food courts where they have a bigger buying power and hence better at negotiating the wholesale price. And owning a food stall will be even more unattractive financially, and therefore younger generation will sieze to be a stall owner. Sadly, without the younger generation taking over, all these legendary flavors will be lost..
8.02.2011
Char Kway Teow チャークエイティオウ Singapore & Penang 炒粿條
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