Pakistani-born and ex-New Yorker Samia Ahad has been charming locals for years with her pan-Asian cooking. Dressed in a trademark starched white shirt, she effortlessly skates through a variety of subcontinental and South-East Asian cuisines, from golden Iranian pilafs and lamb kebabs to fresh Vietnamese rice-paper rolls; from melt-in-themouth garlic naans to saffron-scented snapper. Try to snag a table by the windows withviews of the Singapore River.

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