From Pulau to Table: A Storytelling and Dining Experience

is a dining and storytelling collaboration between Orang Laut SG and Azfar Maswan. Across a collaborative menu, participants encounter ingredients rooted in the Straits and Singapore’s coastal environments. Drawing connections to the Southern Islands and beyond, the menu reflects the movement of people, ingredients, and ideas across maritime Southeast Asia.

Interwoven with the meal, Orang Laut SG shares stories of the Orang Laut in Singapore, offering insight into lived relationships with the sea, food practices, and coastal lifeways. The session situates cuisine within broader histories of trade, migration, and shoreline change, inviting participants to consider how maritime food traditions carry memory and continuity across generations. Together, the culinary and storytelling elements create a reflective space to engage with Singapore’s Straits-based heritage through taste, history, and lived experience.
each dish a memory,

each spice a journey,

each bite carrying

the salt of the sea,

the warmth of fire,

the hands of those before us.

we bring you flavours

that have travelled —

across waters,

across time,

across generations

that refuse to be forgotten.

sit with us,

makan bersama

share stories,

and let the jiwa laut

linger on your palate.

this is more than a meal —

this is heritage,

served

Programme Details:
A collaborative dining and storytelling experience by Orang Laut SG and Azfar Maswan. This programme explores maritime food traditions of the Singapore Straits and wider Nusantara through a curated menu featuring Straits-based and Singapore-specific ingredients. Alongside the meal, Orang Laut SG shares histories and lived experiences of the Orang Laut, situating these flavours within maritime trade routes, coastal ecologies, and memory. The session connects regional culinary perspectives to Singapore’s own shoreline histories, offering participants a deeper understanding of how food reflects movement, continuity, and the sea.

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