'I love personality-driven restaurants, if they are truly personality-driven restaurants. An example would be this small sushi restaurant in Tokyo's Ginza. It has seven seats and it's called Sushi Sawada. Sawada is the name of the chef, and it's him alone preparing the food every day. That's personality'
Chan on big-name restaurants

'For me, you can never do a mee pok or bak kut teh as well as the hawkers. They are one-hit wonders. All their lives they are doing that one thing, mee pok or bak kut teh. No point competing with them. Singaporeans are smarter than that'
On whether he would meld his love for fine dining and hawker food