Know Or Not?

Cheesy jokes aside, this episode brings us to The Cheese Ark, the coolest boutique cheesemonger in town. Based at 49 Stirling Road, Ai Ming runs a shop stocked with hard-to-find cheeses from smallholding farms where every wheel is loving handcrafted, air-flown to Singapore and aged in her affinage room to perfection. 

Plus, we ponder if the hard-charging 24-/7 life is really the best when instead, you could get back to nature and chill, away from social media

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The Cheese Ark - 49 Stirling Road #01-489 Singapore 141049 Shop +65 9175 0090 Email [email protected] 

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In this month of Hari Raya, COVID19 means the pasar malams are shut. These festive night markets are bright and happy bazaars, and the Ramly Burger is legendary. A burger from across the border, it's iconic for its taste and easily available in Malaysia, but in Singapore, it's a treat at a pasar malam.

Until Now! We talk with Shiv of Ministry of Burgers, who offer the best Ramly-style burgers in Singapore. 

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We all know "East Meets West", but what about "West Meets East"? We venture down to the hipster central of Singapore to meet the finest French Bakery on the island to talk about the secrets of making amazing bread and pastries in the challenging humidity of Singapore, and how being part of the community is a cornerstone of how Tiong Bahru Bakery connects with its customers

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We hang out with the King - the King of Fruits! The amazing durian, a fruit that has almost defied description by noted writers over the years, has a (subjectively) obscene smell combined with beautiful a custard-like flesh. We visit Ghim Moh market to hang with an innovator in the Durian scene, and hear how Ah Seng innovated multiple times in his 3 decades of selling Durians

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Our 3rd Season is the Singapore Foodie season, and looks at the artists and artisans who feed the national obsession with food! First up, a Cantonese KL-style Roast Meats restaurant launched in 2018 by local megastar DJs The Muttons, Bernie Tay of FatBoys fame and genius chef Kai. 

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This episode was recorded by Adam Yamin

Singapore is going through the Covid-19 situation with the rest of the world, and the local F&B industry is severely affected. Singapore is at the forefront of effective management of the situation, and if you're feeling well, do consider eating out and supporting the wonderful eateries across our nation. 

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The second season of the Know or Not Podcast ends with a two-episode look at the local writer's scene in Singapore. We follow 7 writers and 1 publisher as we discover what options lie ahead once a writer has published their first book. In this episode, we feature 

Books Actually / Kenny Leck

Gerrie Lim

Jocelyn Suarez

Charmaine Leung

Wayne Ree

Sebastian Sim

Gwee Li Sui

Sam Toh

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The second season of the Know or Not Podcast ends with a two-episode look at the local writer's scene in Singapore. We follow 7 writers and 1 publisher as we learn how a book goes from being an idea in an author's head to becoming a book for sale on a shelf in a store. In this episode, we feature 

Books Actually / Kenny Leck

Gerrie Lim

Jocelyn Suarez

Charmaine Leung

Wayne Ree

Sebastian Sim

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“The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” is a pangram, a sentence with all 26 letters of the alphabet. Font sellers love this sentence since it showcases all 26 letters in one go. This is a podcast, so how things look don’t matter as much as how things sound, and we became curious about the Singapore accent for English. We got some of the best voice talents to read that sentence out loud – one phrase, 20 voices. 

In this episode, we use the monomyth template, commonly known as “A Hero’s Journey”

Act 1 – I Get No Respect: Singapore English in the mid-90s was a local use-only accent for English

Act 2 – The Mentor: we sit down with Assoc Prof Tan Ying Ying, who works on Linguistics and Multilingual Studies at Nanyang Technological University and talk about the wonderfully unique accent here in Singapore. 

Act 3 – Nativeness: Lim Yu Beng helps us hear the subtle differences in the range of local Singaporean accents

Act 4 – The Prodigal Son. Or Bastard Son: we go Singlish, with Naomi Yeo demonstrating the local hybrid of English with Malay, Indian and Chinese Dialects

Act 5 – The Triumphant Return: Singapore undergoes a huge makeover, which turns Singapore English into a regional superstar. Robert Gaxiola, a superstar creative director who has worked on pan-Asian campaigns talks accents for Pan-Asian campaigns

This is a fun one!

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We explore the idea of dancers as body language artists, using their bodies for the 55% of interpersonal communication that is non-verbal. We hang out with Bernice Lee, a contemporary dance artist, Stephy, an instructor from SLAP Dance Studio and then get down with the awesome street dance power couple, SgRach MarcS and talk waacking, pop & lock and robotics and how to work with brands who want their message delivered through body language

Bernice Lee - http://bernicelee.xyz

SLAP Dance Studio - http://www.slap.sg/

SgRach MarcS - http://www.scrachmarcs.com/

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We visit the Raffles Hotel Singapore and learn about their two-years restoration and the refreshed recipe for the Singapore Sling, their iconic gin-based cocktail that still draws in the big crowds a century on from its creation by bartender Ngiam Tong Boon in 1915. 

We talk with local microdistillery Compendium about their amazing gins, Rojak Gin and Chendol Gin, which capture the flavours of Singapore in a bottle.

And we discuss artistry with one of Singapore’s most beloved entertainers, Hossan Leong

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