Dîner en Blanc
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singaporeans seriously should unite
against sooty organisers
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i hope it rains tat day.
heavily.
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i know someone in the invited list
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in case of bi, pls bring ur own umbrella ella ella.....
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Controversy erupts in S'pore over dining event
By Elena Torrijos | Yahoo! Newsroom – 1 hour 47 minutes ago
A Singapore food blogger said he has been asked to remove a post recommending some local food that guests could bring to a French chi chi picnic called Diner en Blanc.
In a post on his blog on Friday, Daniel Ang said, “Reason according to both the French and local organizers was the local delicacies were not in line with the image of the picnic.”
According to the Singapore website for the event slated for Thursday next week at a secret location, it is a “tres chic picnic imported from Paris and now taking hold in outdoor public spaces in 20 cities across 5 continents in 2012, from Barcelona to New York City, from Montreal to Sydney.
In his first post on the event on Tuesday, Ang said that similar to the Paris version, the only way to attend the event is to score an invite from a friend and to know someone who is attending. Invitees are asked to dress in white.
He recommended that guests consider bringing 12 Singapore-style white food, namely: tau hway, teochew pau, cheese raisin buns, xiao long bao, chee chiong fun, fishballs, Hainanese chicken rice, white bee hoon, chwee kueh, kueh tu tu, soon kueh and popiah.“Tau hway is a simple, inexpensive and elegant dessert. Jazz it up to be served on a fine China bowl, and it will look good,” Ang noted in his second post.
“And chicken rice actually needs no introduction, but for good measure, it is Singapore’s signature dish, praised by renowned chef Anthony Bourdain no less, and served in not a few of Singapore’s top hotels,” he added.
Ang also claimed he and other bloggers have been disinvited to the event.
“Reason given was: There is not enough space for people. Do you buy into that reason?” he wrote.
“To both the French and local organisers, my teachers taught me that you do not ‘un-invite’ guests to an event. At least we all know that is being very un-courteous and impolite. Basic manners, isn’t it? Who would have expected – coming from what one would have imagined to be one of the classiest events of the world,” he said.
Also commenting about the controversy in a post titled “Singapore tau huay too low class for French upscale event Diner en Blanc?!”, food blogger Moonberry said she would decline her invitation. In an update, she then said she was also booted from the invitation list.
Both the bloggers, however, felt that the issue was probably due to miscommunication.
In an interview with Yahoo! Singapore, Ang explained that, before writing his original post, he understood that the information guide for the event simply said that guests should bring “quality food”.
He later clarified with the organisers on their Facebook page on what food could be brought. In a post, they said that they do not encourage local food “as the rules and event concept are one and the same”.
“I know a lot of netizens are angry but I’m not. It’s miscommunication that happened and I think every culture should be respected.”
In her post, Moonberry said, “I feel that this tau huay matter is attributed to a grave miscommunication and to a very large extent, a cultural misunderstanding, which can be resolved amicably and not tarnish the joyful intent of this event.”
In an announcement on their Facebook page just past 10pm, the organisers clarified that "Diner en Blanc worldwide welcomes local food as can be seen in many international events both passed and upcoming. Menus in Barcelona, Mexico, Kigali for instance, all include local food."
What is not encouraged, they said, is "fast food", which goes against the multiple course meal concept of the three-hour event.
"As guests devote time and energy preparing for the various aspects of the event, we ask that they also devote time and energy preparing their meal as well. The statement was in no way meant to discourage participants from bringing local food. Apologies for the misunderstanding," they added.
In a separate comment, they said that the cancellation of invitation of bloggers and other media is "because of a new space limitation that has just imposed itself, as well as a limited timetable for the hosts to perform interviews at the media lounge".
Members of the public, however, remained angry over the food event fiasco.
In a comment to the announcement, user Azmie Øregano said the brouhaha made the organisers look flaky. "The exclusions -well they left a bitter taste in peoples mouth ... and worse of all, the explanation above smells too fishy to be honest.. are we still talking about food here?" the user asked.
User Khavronsteinsus Corprothone Lamborghini said, "If you come to another foreign country, you better show your respect. Insulting our diverse and vibrant local foods and food culture that make us uniquely Singapore is so distasteful, disrespectful and outrageous."
Reacting to the controversy, well-known Singapore blogger mrbrown proposed on Twitter late Friday evening to hold a #MakanDay on 30 August, the same day as the Diner en Blanc event.
"30 Aug is #MakanDay Bring & share food of ANY color as our tastes are diverse. Tell your food's story. Wear off-white (beige or khaki)," he tweeted. -
MIWs dinning...
no thank you.
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Khavronsteinsus Corprothone Lamborghini <-- this name so power.
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dat day, me was wif a french.
den he spoke in french on his fone.
wah, made me wanna learn french too.
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Well, unfortunately as discriminatory as it sounds, the local food admittedly just not "fancy" enough. U just gotta fancify your local delicacies with some caviar a la francaise.
12 Singapore-style white food, namely: Frenchified
Qu est ce que tu va prendre ?
1) tau hway parfait.
2) teochew pau au gratin
3) cheese raisin croissant
4) xiao long bao ala roquefort
5) chee chiong fun julienne
6) fishballs = Poisson Boule Eclair
7) Poulet Hainanese rice flambe
8) Bee Hoon Blanc
9) chwee kueh au salade nicoise
10) kueh tu tu creme brulee
11) soon kueh avec fondue
12) popiah parfait
C'est la meme chose, une carte est plus elegante qu'u menu.
Bon appetit!
This is after all.... Diner en Blanc~
Half french english ... :"tres chic picnic" ... Very stylish picnic ? xD
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Food bloggers were uninvited.
"A group of Facebook netizens are holding an alternate event called "It's Super White". To snub Diner en Blanc organisers, it will be held nearby on the same day."
It's Super White = 超级白？
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got one is dress all black one
i think 比较适�我
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Originally posted by TehJarVu:
7th month Hungry Ghost festival, por tor kao.
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alamak , wanna to take local hawker food to put in line with french cuisine
wtf the blooger is trying to do?
mana the standard?
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This is Singapore, bring your French frogs and snails back to your disgusting land
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official statement http://singapore.dinerenblanc.info/
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oredi left a sour taste before the makan session
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The organiser was also a fraud kena sue few years ago.
http://anonymousxwrites.blogspot.sg/2009/11/clemen-chiang-freely-sued-refund.html
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does it means "im sorry we fucked it up" in short.
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Originally posted by GHoST_18:
does it means "im sorry we fucked it up" in short.
Suck thumb.
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Originally posted by Hello Kitty:
dat day, me was wif a french.
den he spoke in french on his fone.
wah, made me wanna learn french too.
My last last job, the customer was a french descent algerian, the bl**dy m*****f**king ch** b**, was the most unreasonable customer i had ever worked for. His accent was french, but talked like a machine gun. Makes me wanna smack his bl**dy m*****f**king ch** b** face.
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Originally posted by GHoST_18:
i hope it rains tat day.
heavily.
I hope it rains heavily.....
...... only at the location where the event is taking place.
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Diner en Blanc organisers accept responsibility for PR fiasco
By Joanne Chan | Posted: 29 August 2012 1955 hrsSINGAPORE: The Singapore organisers of the highly-anticipated pop-up picnic, Diner en Blanc or "White Party", have accepted responsibility for the online uproar over a comment about local food.
A statement posted on its official webpage on Wednesday said the comment was wrong and was "withdrawn, corrected and apologies tendered", but the "damage lingers".
Diner en Blanc is organised worldwide, and requires participants to dress entirely in white and bring their own food.
Singapore is the first country in Asia to host the event.
The controversy started when a local food blogger, Daniel Ang, wrote a post recommending Singaporean dishes, including tau hway and chicken rice, for the event.
Mr Ang subsequently wrote that he was asked by organisers to take down the post as "local delicacies were not in line with the image of the picnic".
Mr Ang also put up a screen grab supposedly taken from Diner en Blanc Singapore's Facebook page, which said that local food was not permitted at the event.
He also claimed that he, along with other bloggers, were uninvited from the exclusive event.
Mr Ang's post sparked a huge uproar online among netizens and bloggers over the weekend, with some calling for a boycott of the event.
Diner en Blanc Singapore has since clarified that all food is welcome.
It added it will review its communication guidelines.
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Damage done, cancellation of the event might be good for all.
