As someone who loves languages but doesn’t speak Chinese, I use dish names as little language lessons. So, bak chor mee— literally, minced meat noodles— is helpful since it tells me what I am eating. ...
SINGAPORE — Fifteen years after Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong introduced the term "mee siam mai hum" into Singaporean lingo in his 2006 National Day Rally (NDR) speech, he apparently made a callback ...