Grandma's Famous
Peranakan Classic
Grandma's Famous Tekka Nyonya Ngoh Hiang
Every Lunar New Year, Grandma's hands would move without looking — rolling, pressing, seal…
Singapore
Peranakan · Fuzhou · Hawker
Est. Three Generations
Two women.
Two kitchens.
One table.
A culinary archive bridging the spice-rich hawker heritage of Singapore with the clean, quiet warmth of Finnish home cooking.
Enter the Kitchen Finland
Kemi · Lapland · Hearth
The Story Behind the Kitchen
Two women who never met.
They would have recognized each other immediately.
One built her reputation in Tekka Market — a Peranakan Nonya with a Fuzhou husband and a kopitiam legacy. The other grew up in Lapland, filling winter darkness with cardamom and rye. Their granddaughter and daughter-in-law stands at the intersection.
Grandma
Peranakan — Singapore
The Nonya of Tekka Market
She measured nothing. She knew the right amount of galangal by smell alone. Her ngoh hiang was famous before the word "famous" was applied to food.
Read her story → Mummu
Finnish — Kemi, Lapland
The Hearth Keeper of Kemi
She made pulla for every occasion — birthdays, funerals, first snowfall. The kettle was always on. The door was always open. Cardamom meant safety.
Read her story →"She preserved with salt and spice.Read the Full Story
She preserved with cold and dill.
Both were saying: this food will outlive me."
From the Archive
Recipes with roots
Mummu's Cardamom
Finnish Hearth
Mummu's Cardamom Pulla
Mummu came from Kemi — a small city in Finnish Lapland where winter lasts nine months and …
Ayrial's Cinnamon
Nordic-Straits Fusion
Ayrial's Cinnamon Pull-Apart Bread
This is the bread I make when my children are stressed with exams, when friendships have g…