Tan Hsueh Yun

Tan Hsueh Yun is senior food correspondent at The Straits Times. She would have gone to cooking school after graduating from the University of California, Berkeley, but did the next best thing – write about food. She is obsessed with food: the making of it, the provenance of ingredients people use, how restaurants work – or don’t work – and the health of the industry. She wants to show, with her writing, that food is Singapore’s ultimate soft power.