Samsui women refer to the hardworking
women who emigrated from China (mostly from the Canton region) between
1920s to 1949, to Singapore to earn a living working backbreaking jobs
in hard labor industries such as construction or as domestic workers.
They usually never marry and often live in cliques, looking after each
other. At one point there used to be about 200,000 them in Singapore,
contributing to the development and prosperity we enjoy today. Now there
remains about 100-200 of them in their 80s and 90s.
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| From the Liu Kang Exhibition |
I
saw it fitting to finish out the last meal of 2011 with a dish
dedicated to these hardworking women, who were easily identified by
their red hats as they toiled under the blazing sun. This dish, samsui
ginger chicken, is a very popular dish at Soup Restaurant which extols
it as a " traditional Samsui dish consumed by the Samsui women in
Chinatown. Due
to their low income, the Samsui Ginger Chicken was only consumed once a
year, during the Chinese New Year" on their website.
Samsui Ginger chicken is eaten with minced ginger and lettuce.
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