SINGAPORE: The US Ambassador to Singapore, Anjani Okay Sinha, shared on Wednesday (Dec 31) that he had his first expertise at a neighborhood hawker centre simply earlier than 2025 ended.
In a Fb publish on the US Embassy Singapore web page, it may be seen that the Ambassador visited Tiong Bahru Market. Tiong Bahru Hainanese Hen Rice, a Michelin Bib Gourmand awardee, is tagged within the publish.
“Feeling grateful to have the ability to share my first hawker expertise in Singapore with my household and Embassy colleagues because the 12 months involves a detailed. We had an exquisite time visiting one of many metropolis’s iconic hawker facilities, tasting wonderful meals, assembly locals, and celebrating the vacations collectively. Cheers to a joyful finish of the 12 months and looking out ahead to what’s forward in 2026!” he wrote.
Within the pictures the Ambassador shared, a wide range of dishes equivalent to carrot cake, fried sotong prawn mee, and Hainanese curry rice had been a part of the meal he shared along with his household and colleagues. Moreover, to make it a really Singaporean expertise, there have been tissue packets with labels that learn “CHOPE! Desk taken” together with the dishes.
For dessert, he appeared to get pleasure from ice kacang, a preferred shaved ice deal with with vibrant candy syrups.
What netizens are saying
Within the feedback on the publish, many Fb customers wished the Ambassador a Comfortable New 12 months and invited him to go to different components of Singapore.
“Singapore hawker meals is one among its sort on the earth. It’s good to see H.E.Ambassador Sinha having fun with it. Have a blessed 2026,” wrote one.
“Comfortable New 12 months, Sir! Your first go to to the hawker took fairly a while to lastly occur. Hopefully, you’ll get to style extra Singapore delicacies throughout your stint,” commented one other.
“Please go to totally different zones for various feels of Singapore to get a whole image of the nation,” wrote a 3rd, whereas one other chimed in with, “Please strive Peranakan / Nonya delicacies subsequent time if you happen to can.”
“Thanks for visiting Tiong Bahru! I belief you discovered our market and neighborhood a vibrant and welcoming one!” a Fb person wrote.
Hand-picked for the job
Whereas Ambassador Sinha was handpicked by President Donald Trump for the job, his posting has not been with no measure of controversy.
Whereas he was being vetted for the place final July, the grilling he obtained from Illinois Senator Tammy Duckworth went viral. Ms Duckworth had requested Dr Sinha a sequence of questions relating to Singapore’s economic system, the US Navy’s work with Singapore, and when the city-state would chair ASEAN, which he visibly struggled to reply.
Early final month, remarks he made in an interview raised quite a lot of eyebrows, with commenters on-line important of his characterisation of the relations between the 2 nations relating to commerce. /TISG
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