23/10/2025
It's been 8 years of serving healthy food. We've always understood healthy within the framework of counting macros and micros to serve different lifestyles. In recent years we've also connected with farmers directly to bring the cleanest organic ingredients. 'Natural unprocessed wholefoods, oil free, sugar free...' We've done that. I feel we've really pushed the limits of healthy within that framework.
Earlier this year while building the 2025 menu, one of the directions we explored was a healthy meal within the Traditional Chinese Medicine framework. Mann this stuff. It's crazy. It's 3d cinema compared to my grandfather's CRT tele in that wooden cabinet. It's a whole new realm. The more I read, the more I don't know. It's not easy reading. Translated classics are hardly the stuff that makes bestseller at Kinokuniya. The texts often feel like they were done using an old typewriter, definitely without autocorrect and definitely without a proofreader. Yet it's engaging and intriguing for a guy who's been cooking healthy meals for so many years.
I mean, if I could make your meal healthier just by calibrating the tastes of sour, sweet, bitter, acrid, salty. How wonderful that would be. Calibrate your meal a little more according to the time of the day, seasons, irregular weather patterns, gender. And we're still just talking regular farm ingredients. Not even tonics and medicinal herbs yet. There's just so much more to explore. Certain tastes, certain foods that nourish certain solid and hollow viscerals, bring balance to Yin and Yang.
To all our customers, whether recovering from illness or the get fit get stronger athletic crowd, kindly bear with us while we level up. Once we confidently get through a few more translated versions (I'm a banana with a HSK level 1 at best) of 黄帝内经 Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen Ling Shu, 傷寒論 Shang Han Lun, 金匮要略 Jin Gui Yao Lue, ...
We'll be back on with a whole new level SuperBowl and Badminton Butter. In the meantime, eat well, rest well, and you've got my WhatsApp, love messaging as much as chatting over the service counter.
Ruth & Choong 🙏🏾
