Category:Peranakan Restaurants 
From Singapore Hotels & Singapore Lifestyle
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Peranakan Restaurants serve Peranakan Cuisine which is in fact Singapore's very own Asian Fusion Cuisine, blending Chinese and Malay cooking styles and ingredients with great flair.
The combination which really has its own identity and provides Singapore with its most indigenous cuisine is Peranakan or Nonya food. Peranakans (the men are called baba and the women nonya) are descendants of early migrants from mainland China who settled in Penang, Malacca and Singapore, intermarrying with local Malays. The product of this romance is the unique Peranakan culture and a cuisine which blends Chinese ingredients with Malay spices and herbs. The resulting cuisine is imaginative and tasty, skilfully blending the best of Malay Cuisine and Chinese Cuisine.
Central to Peranakan Cuisine is the Rempah: a mixture of spices such as chillies, shallots, lemon grass, candlenuts, turmeric and Belacan, or prawn paste, ground by hand in a stone pestle and mortar (batu tumbok). It is this mixture which is central to the distinctive flavour of Peranakan Cuisine.
Although best eaten in a Peranakan home, the food can be enjoyed at a small number of restaurants. Look out for dishes such as Otak Otak, a blend of fish, coconut milk, chilli paste, galangal and herbs wrapped in banana leaf.
Another is Buah Keluak, a distinctive dish combining chicken pieces with Indonesian black nuts to produce a rich gravy. Be sure to leave room for desserts: Nonyas are renowned for their scrumptious and colourful Cakes and sticky sweet delicacies.
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