CH’NG Poh Tiong
Happy Lunar New Year*.
It’s fair to say the Year of the Snake has gotten off to a blistering start. By that, I mean the political hot air huffing and buffing out of the Trump White House. The soaring temperatures are felt – for the time being anyway – mostly in Mexico, Canada, China, the Middle East, Ukraine, and wherever else is connected to globalisation.
Hubris is a self-inflicted state of mind. If arrested early, we can still come to some good sense.
If allowed to run its course, the inevitable happens and the person who used to float on Cloud 9 discovered he has bitten off more than he can chew. In excessive hubris (which already exceeds normal perimeters), reality returns sooner rather than later. It won’t be pretty for Mr Trumpet.
My advice is to take small nibbles of reality and chew slowly. Not greedily.
Talking of chewing, on 13 March, I have been engaged to speak about Chinese wine at YAN’S DINING. That’s sipping and chewing then.
Located on level 4 of Mandarin Gallery along Orchard Road, the food is predominantly Shanghainese but, thankfully, less sweet than what is normally associated with that cuisine.
The menu and wines should be enticing enough but I am privileged to inform diners will receive a complimentary copy of my book A Primer on Pairing.
Interested readers, kindly make your dinner reservation by contacting Ang Leong Huat Marketing Manager Ms ANG Bee Leng at beeleng@alh.com.sg or WhatsApp +65 8123 2559.
*Celebrated, including, by Koreans, Vietnamese, and Chinese. Japanese also used to commemorate the lunar calendar until 1873 when, under what is referred to as the Meiji Restoration, the country switched to the Gregorian calendar.
