'Blind dates for chefs': Kenjiro Hashida launches Savour Life dining series pairing unlikely culinary partners
Savour Life is a new dining series by chef Kenjiro Hashida and Melissa Ho that pairs chefs from different culinary backgrounds. Following its inaugural dinner, upcoming collaborations include Damian D'Silva and Sho Naganuma, with future plans to involve hawkers.
Chef Kenjiro Hashida has launched a dining series called Savour Life, pairing chefs from diverse culinary backgrounds. Co-hosted by events organizer Melissa Ho, the initiative aims to provide chefs with a platform for experimentation and collaboration. The inaugural event saw Hashida cooking over charcoal with Drew Nocente at Il Toro, creating new dishes that differed from their usual menus.
Future events will include hawkers and chefs with varied culinary backgrounds, such as pairing a Korean chef with a Thai one. Hashida encourages chefs to step out of their comfort zones and explore new culinary ideas, like cooking over fire and water. The first Savour Life event, held on August 13, 2021, featured a full menu of unique dishes, such as grilled eggplant with yogurt and chili oil and fish noodles with turbot tea.
The cost for each collaboration meal is under S$200, and each dish is created from scratch without using signature dishes from the chefs' respective menus.
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