Mad about meat: New butcher shops in Singapore

In the last year, Butcher Box, Carv Artisanal Butchery, Cut Butchery, Maturo Dry Aged Beef and The Butcher's Dining have opened. ST PHOTOS: KUA CHEE SIONG, DESMOND FOO, CHONG JUN LIANG
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SINGAPORE - There is no shortage of online-only stores selling beef, lamb, pork and chicken - these businesses flourished in the thick of the Covid-19 pandemic, when people preferred to stay in.

But with Singapore returning to some state of normal, a slew of bricks and mortar butcher shops have opened. The owners are banking on two things: that customers prefer to look at the meat before they buy, and newbies will have questions about different cuts and cooking methods they want to ask the butchers.

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