Great news - street food just got a Michelin Star - from Reuters:
Singapore street stalls make dining history with Michelin star
Hungry diners queued up at a small, modest street food stall in Singapore on Friday to get a taste of the restaurant's local delights worthy of a coveted Michelin star.
Hong Kong Soya Sauce Chicken Rice and Noodle and Hill Street Tai Hwa Pork Noodle made dining history on Thursday when they became the first street food stalls in the world to be awarded a star by Michelin as French critics revealed a Singapore guide of 29 establishments.
Singapore is the first Southeast Asian country and the fourth in Asia to be rated by the Michelin Guide. It has more than 100 open-air "hawker" centers and 6,000 stalls selling popular multi-ethnic meals.
And an interesting bit of demographics:
Chan hopes his stall's success will encourage more young people to enter the hawker trade, which is starting to suffer from a lack of successors for the stalls, which are primarily run by elderly cooks.
Move to Portland and Seattle and start training the next generation. Of course, demographics always shift and the next trend will be somewhere else and a different cuisine. Seems to be about a ten year window on this stuff unless you are actually doing real food for real people.
Always loved visiting Hong Kong - never been to Singapore.
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