Violet Oon Satay Bar & Grill – Peranakan Restaurant With Juicy Satay At Clarke Quay
Feature - Review, Food - Singapore, Singapore - South
February 26, 2017
Remember the days when Singapore’ Satay Club was at Clarke Quay? I used to dine there as a teenager, when the group of us had the occasional class outings at The Satay Club. Nostalgia. That was 2005. It seems apt that local Peranakan cuisine restaurateur Violet Oon has decided to open a satay grill restaurant right at Clarke Quay, paying homage of sorts to the popular food place during its heydays. After Violet Oon Restaurant Singapore at Bukit Timah, and National Kitchen by Violet Oon at National Gallery, Violet and her children Su-lyn and Yiming seem to have put......
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