Restaurant of the Week

In modern but superstitious Singapore, getting locals to dine at new restaurant ‘Aurum’ could be a tall order, as the ethnic Chinese who make up 75 percent of the city-state's population tend to shun anything that connotes death or sickness. Aurum's restaurant reception is a fake morgue and operating theater. On the second floor, where the restaurant is located, customers sit in gold-painted wheelchairs and eat from metal tables designed to resemble operating tables....to top things off, next door to arum is a bar called The Clinic, where customers are served by waitresses in nurse outfits and sip alcohol from mock drip packets.....if you do get over to Singapore and get a chance to sample arum, be prepared for a somewhat bizarre blend of foods, such as ‘isotonic lychee caviar’ and ‘piglet deconstructed mosaic of pear with coleslaw’. So far Asian food critics are not convinced. One critic going so far as to write "Why are we courting disaster by sitting in a wheelchair for no reason? It's like asking people to go and sleep in a coffin for fun".