CultureFrom Chaoshan to Singapore: Grandma carries on Nanyang roots through family recipes

To escape the Chinese civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, Lu Yue’e’s father left Jieyang in 1948 and eventually reached Singapore, where he made a living selling Teochew bean-paste dessert at Red Lamp Pier. His letters and instrument revealed a generation’s journey of displacement and settlement to Lu, who passed the Teochew cooking she learned on to her daughter, Hu Weili.