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SINGAPORE – Chinese chef Tan Yong Hua, owner of Restaurant Home on Tampines Street 43, died of heart failure in his sleep on Wednesday night (September 9). He was 47 years old.
An ad on the restaurant’s Facebook page on Thursday says it “passed away peacefully.”
He leaves behind his wife and a seven-year-old son.
The Singaporean began his career in the kitchen in his late teens and worked at a number of five-star hotels, including Szechuan Court at Raffles The Plaza (now Fairmont Singapore) and Peach Blossom at Marina Mandarin Singapore (now Parkroyal Collection Marina Bay).
He opened a restaurant, Chu Dao, on Joo Chiat Road in 2011 with a partner, but they parted ways a year later.
Chef Yong founded Restaurant Home in 2013, which was known for its Peking duck and homey dishes like steamed fish and pork knuckle rice noodles.
The restaurant moved to Cosford Road in Changi three years later and then to an HDB block in Tampines last year.
Koh Swee Har, 66, a retired food journalist from Lianhe Wanbao who has known the chef for more than 10 years, remembers him as a personable and helpful person.
She recalls: “He was a very creative chef. He cooked a giant sunfish in different ways when I was at Peach Blossom, which was the first time I had tried fish. His vegetarian dishes at Szechuan Court, such as rice with pumpkin and fried zucchini flower. They were also unforgettable. “
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