When to choose mee kia over mee pok for bak chor mee - new book tells all

In his newly published book How To Eat, the contents come from monthly columns that Dr Wong Chiang Yin penned for Lianhe Zaobao. ST PHOTO: GIN TAY
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SINGAPORE - A single grey oven mitt sits in Dr Wong Chiang Yin's car. The Gauntlet Of Gluttony, he calls it. Its padding stops his hand from getting burnt holding a hot takeaway container while eating in his car.

In pandemic times, when it is against the law to eat in a hawker centre, a gastronaut has to take matters into his own, well, hands.

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