Why "Cook a Pot of Curry Day" ??
The origins of the event actually happened 7 years ago!!
This is how the story goes ...
:A family, who had just moved here from China, had resorted to mediation because they could not stand the smell of curry that their Singaporean Indian neighbours would often cook. The Indian family, who were mindful of their neighbour's aversion, had already taken to closing their doors and windows whenever they cooked the dish, but this was not enough.
"They said: 'Can you please do something? Can you don't cook curry? Can you don't eat curry?'," said Madam Marcellina Giam, a Community Mediation Centre mediator. But the Indian family stood firm. In the end, Mdm Giam got the Indian family to agree to cook curry only when the Chinese family was not home. In return, they wanted their Chinese neighbours to at least give their dish a try.
Many Singaporeans whom read about the story was unhappy.. and eventually the lead to the "cook a pot of curry" day.. I'm still not too sure whether the whole purpose is to annoy foreigners with curry smells or trying to get our foreign friends to fit in and try the dish....
Anyway, so happened that today Ah mah will be cooking up a storm for the 7th mth prayer; curry is part and parcel of the delicacy that she will prepared.. so here we are.. not trying to literally cook a pot of curry to proof anything; but we juz love the ever-lasting delicious curry prepared by Grandma ! :)
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