SIA flights to offer notable hawker dishes like Boon Tong Kee chicken rice, Beach Road prawn noodle

When travel resumes, passengers on Singapore Airlines (SIA) flights might notice new choices on the food menu - Boon Tong Kee's chicken rice, Song Fa bak kut teh or Kok Kee wonton noodle, among others. In collaboration with leading Singaporean hawker brands, SIA is featuring these hawker dishes on rotation on some of its flights from next month. Also on the slate are Bismillah Biryani Restaurant's chicken dum biryani, Qiu Lian ban mian and Beach Road prawn noodle. The dishes, however, will be available only for First Class and Business Class passengers on selected flights departing from Singapore. There are plans to work with other famous local hawker brands in the coming months, SIA said on Monday. Yeoh Phee Teik, SIA's senior VP of customer experience, said: " As Singapore's national carrier, we are proud to work closely with and support several of the country's leading brands to showcase the best of Singapore to our customers. As travel gradually resumes, our customers from around the world can enjoy even more uniquely Singaporean experiences when they fly with Singapore Airlines." Singapore's hawker culture was successfully inscribed to the Unesco intangible heritage list last December, and SIA said that the initiative is a celebration of that. It is part of the airline's efforts to increase the Singaporean flavour of its offerings. <br/>