Eurasian - Quentin's Eurasian Restaurant

This quiant and wonderful place is located at 193 Celyon Road at the Eurasian community house, the ambience is comforting and the food is delicious. Dinner at this charming place was pretty decent. We ordered the Chicken Curry Devil ($16.80), Fried Ocra ($7) and Curry Moolie with Prawns ($13.80).

The Chicken Curry Devil is a mix of cocktail sausages, chicken, cabbage and assorted veg in a red sourish curry sauce. The Curry Moolie dish contained brinjal and prawns cooked in a lemak sauce. There is a choice of prawns or mackarel. The curries are actually not that spicy as we had pre-assumed. The Ocra was bascially lady's fingers stir-fried with some indian spices but it was lovely. In my opinion these are great dishes to go with piping hot rice. We really enjoyed the Ocra and the Curry Moolie. Unfortunately, we became too stuffed for desserts.

The menu has a wide selection of appetizers and western stuff such as Chicken Wings, Sheperd's Pie, Calamari, etc. Serivce was decent though I have to say the food took quite a while to come... but then again they've already "excused" themselves on the main page of their menu by indicating that food ordered are freshly prepared and would take 15-20mins, and fish keropok is complimentary while you wait. An overall enjoyable dining experience! Will make room for the Sugee Cake the next time I ever go there.




History of Eurasians
The community of Eurasians in Singapore is descended from Europeans who intermarried with local Asians. The ethnicities within the community span the length and breadth of Europe, although Eurasian migrants to Singapore in the 19th century came largely from colonies already in Asia, such as British Malaya; Chittagong and Goa in India; the Dutch East Indies and French Indochina.



Spoken language
English is generally spoken as a first language by Eurasians, whilst amongst the elder generation who are of Portuguese descent the Portuguese creole known as Cristão or Papia Kristang – the Kristang language – is still spoken by some people.



Religion
The Eurasian community in Singapore is overwhelmingly Christian, most being Roman Catholics of Portuguese descent who celebrate Christian feast days such as Christmas, Easter and Corpus Christi.



Cuisine
Foods commonly associated with Eurasian culinary traditions include devil's curry (curry debal in Kristang), curry feng, Eurasian smore (a beef stew), mulligatawny soup (mulligatani in Kristang), shepherd's pie and vindaloo (vin d'arlo in Kristang).



Currently, the community boasts family names which come from:
The Armenian (the Galistan, the Dragon and the Avakian families)
British (the Caine, the Hogan, the Reeves, the Fenley, the Hale, the Shirlaw and the Smith families)
Danish (the Lange, the Olsen, the Rasmussen and the Jensen families)
Dutch (the Marbeck, the Van Cuylenberg, the De Bakker, the Westenra, the Ten Haken, the Feenstra, the Gronloh and the Vanderstraaten families)
French (the Longue, the Poulier and the Cherbonnier families)
German (the Oehler, the Keller, the Kaiser and the Roelcke families)
Italian (the Marini, the De Luca, the Esposito, the Angelucci and the Scarpa families)
Portuguese (the Carvalho, the Conceicao, the De Almeida, the De Silva, the De Souza, the Lazaroo, the Monteiro, the Oliveiro, the Pereira, the Pestana, the Rodrigues and the Theseira families)
Spanish (the Castellano, the Fernandez, the Lopez, the Zuniga and the Hernandez families)
Swedish (the Holmberg, the Johansson and the Lindblom families)





Reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasians_in_Singapore