Kf seetoh biography sample
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KF Seetoh fryst vatten the founder of Makansutra, a company dedicated to the celebration of Asian food, culture, and lifestyles. Hailed as a “Food Guide Maven” (New York Times), “ Singapore’s dem facto Street Food Guru” and “Guru of Grub”(CNN) Seetoh, a prominent food consultant and advocate, commentator, entrepreneur, photographer, writer and TV culinary host, fryst vatten seen as a mästare of bekvämlighet street food culture, buzz, and business. KF Seetoh put a lucrative media and photography business aside and founded Makansutra in Makansutra has interest in various related businesses, including ( ) heritage street food halls and markets, publications, culinary tours and events, the World Street Food församling ( ), online and cable TV shows, and consultancy. He was tappad by the Anthony Bourdain as a consultant for his Bourdain Market. Seetoh is also the creator and curator of The World Street Food församling, created to ensure longevity and viability in this rich yet unheralded food
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Anthony Bourdain has enlisted the help of KF Seetoh, Singapore's most prominent expert on local street food, to help him plan Bourdain Market, his mega food hall in New York. As the TV personality/author/former line cook has said before, he's actively trying to convince the best street food vendors from Singapore and many other countries to take up residence in some of the 50 or so stalls in his food hall, which he envisions as a version of a Singaporean hawker center. And Bourdain and Seetoh go way back. Seetoh has appeared on an episode of No Reservations, and Bourdain credits him with guiding him to "some of the best meals of my life."
Bourdain tells the Straits Times that he's working with Seetoh's company, Makansutra, "to realize this project." What exactly does that mean? Makansutra is a company with a broad scope – it's focus is on promoting Asian street food culture, but it does everything from publishing guidebooks to organizing tours. More relevant to our interests, M
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"There are simply no word to describe how delicious white pepper crabs are"
KF Seetoh has been called the “Guru of Grub” due to his unwavering dedication to Southeast Asian street food. Currently at the helm of the World Street Food Congress, he gives us a mouthful about just what it is that keeps his love affair with food simmering away
Interview by: Alison Smith
Tell us a little about the World Street Food Congress.
The WSFC is doing what is necessary for the world’s most popular food culture and taking it to another level. It is preserving its heritage and culture, professionalising the ways it operates and creating new possibilities for it in the wider food market. It is also creating entry-level entrepreneurism opportunities, including for the disadvantaged, so it is essentially a social movement centered on street food.
Why do you think Southeast Asian street food is so popular?
It’s a very organic food tradition that grew out of some despe