Restaurant review: Authentic Peranakan cooking at Indigo Blue Kitchen

(Clockwise from left) Indigo Blue Kitchen's Bakwan Kepiting, Beef Rendang and Prawns Chilli Garam. PHOTOS: LES AMIS GROUP
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SINGAPORE - Indigo Blue Kitchen, the new Peranakan restaurant by the Les Amis Group, is a bold gamble on the part of Mr Desmond Lim, the group's chairman.

The chef of the three-week-old eatery is 28-year-old Chong Jun Xiang, who is not Peranakan and has never run a Peranakan kitchen.

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