Unknown to many, Candlenut almost didn’t make it to Dempsey, almost didn’t get a Michelin star, and almost didn’t put Singapore on the culinary map as the world’s first Michelin-starred Peranakan restaurant. Chef Malcolm Lee was on the brink of quitting about a year before Candlenut, the Peranakan restaurant he started with his mother, was … Continue reading Candlenut’s Malcolm Lee was on brink of hanging up his apron before his Michelin star