The Singapore years
In Serangoon, Rose Sivam and Chris Choo opened their home for evenings of food, music and conversation. One dish could take you to Morocco. The next might be a recipe from Rose’s mother.
This archive is a record of the original Relish dining, menus and celebrations.
01 · The hosts
Chris brought family recipes and a curiosity about the food of other places. Rose brought a producer’s eye for how a room, a performance and a meal fit together.
At the original Relish, guests ate among the hosts’ art and antiques, including Gandharan sculpture and art from the Indonesian islands. The objects gave people something to ask about between courses.
Rose, Chris and their daughter Aleia used the same idea for an initiative that welcomed guests who might rarely have the chance to attend a private dinner. The gatherings paired shared meals with live entertainment and brought people from different walks of life to one table.
Read the Singapore International Foundation feature
02 · The menus
Start with a clay-pot relish, then move from Cantonese pineapple duck to Goan vindaloo. Follow with Peshawar-style lamb karahi, Ruby’s Chicken Paratel or a Spanish tortilla with shakshouka. The original menu traces a route through 14 dishes and two drinks.
See the full Around the World menu
The original Singapore delivery menu was arranged by region. The listings below preserve the named dishes available in the archived pages. The original Singapore and Malaysia page listed each dish at S$15.
Menu names and prices are historical Singapore listings. The old site also had a dessert tab.
From the archive to your kitchen
Hear the wok sizzle in Chris and Eddie Rivera’s char kway teow, then slow things down for vegetable claypot rice with mushrooms, ginger and a crisp edge.
03 · The old dining formats
The original Singapore pages offered a private dinner at the Relish home or an evening hosted in the guest’s own space.
The private dine-in format offered an eight-course dinner plus appetisers, soup and dessert, a welcome beverage and BYOB without corkage. Guests could choose a playlist and discuss dietary needs with the hosts.
Historic rates: S$200 per guest for two to four guests and S$188 per guest for five or more. Minimum two guests.
Historic address: 116 Serangoon North Avenue 1, #04-513, Singapore 550116.
In the Chef for Hire format, Chris and Rose came to the guest’s home and prepared a six-course dinner plus appetisers, soup and dessert. The old description made a point of the time taken to prepare the sauces and the stories told with each course.
Historic rate: From S$290 per guest, with a minimum of two guests.
The address, offers and rates above belong to the Singapore archive.
04 · It’s Your Party
A networking dinner, a milestone birthday or a theme carried through both the food and the music. The original party archive shows how different evenings came together.
The old party pages presented two venues: Relish@Serangoon, the original Singapore home, and Relish@Bintan, a separate coastal setting in Indonesia.
Themed evenings paired entertainment and cuisine. Bollywood, Spanish and Afrobeats were offered as starting points, and the hosts invited guests to discuss other themes and dietary needs.
Other events listed in the original gallery included Airbnb and Standard Chartered team gatherings, Content Asia networking, Ben’s birthday, Ian’s 50th, Ivy’s birthday, an LSE reunion and Tracie’s farewell.
05 · On record
The cooking, the hosts and the evenings live on in guest accounts, food films and reporting from the Singapore years.
The original Relish site preserved 143 reviews and testimonials from 2017 to 2025. Browse the guest memories in the review archive, or cook from the HOTPLATE recipe collection.
Read the guest archive Browse the cook-along recipesHistorical menu, dining and gallery details draw on Relish’s original About Your Hosts, Around the World, Menu, Dine-In, Chef for Hire, It’s Your Party and Who’s Who pages.
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