10 National Day Potluck Ideas for Socially-Distanced Gatherings
National Day is upon us! What better way to celebrate a foodie nation than to indulge in local delights and special potluck feasts? Here, we've rounded up some of our favourite restaurants serving up local food, and a few homegrown brands with special treats, for this National Day.
Potluck Ideas
If you are thinking of celebrating at home with your closest friends and families (subject to 5 unique visitors per day!) hosting a potluck or catering a special dinner at home is a fun way to spice up the menu. Impress your friends by bringing show-stopping dishes to the table and turn up with the item that transforms the meal into a feast.
Blue Jasmine
Asian flavour lovers will crave the heat with Blue Jasmine’s vibrant Thai inspired four-course SG 56th Birthday Set ($56; good for three to four) – offering items like a refreshing Glass Noodle Salad with Prawn and Dry Red Curry Seabass fried to perfection and later coated with red curry sauce imbued with enticing fragrances like lemongrass, lime leaf, and fresh lime. Finish off with a traditional Thai dessert of Colourful Glutinous Rice Ball with Sweet Coconut Milk.
Visit Blue Jasmine’s website here.
Tablescape
If you don’t want to miss a thing from the parade, Tablescape has got you covered with its Sofa Menu ($56 nett) specially created to be easy to eat while lounging in front of the telly. It offers a fun array of Modern European treats rich with local references including delicious Ramly Sliders & Mentaiko Sauce!
Visit Tablescape’s website here.
MO Bar
A meal isn’t complete without a drink to pair with it. MO Bar’s National Day Package brings three Singapore flavours to life through each signature drink. Featuring Pandan Whiskey, Rice and Sparkling pineapple tepache, this cocktail package is sure to make one reminisce about the local flavours in a refreshing and unique way.
Visit MO Bar’s website here.
Salted & Hung
For those wanting an exclusive dining experience in their very own home, enjoy a 5-course menu ($105) with Salted & Hung’s tasting experience at home that comes with plating and heating instructions. Encapsulating the essence of sustainable cooking with minimal wastage, highlights include Bafun Uni with snow crab, Radish and uni buttermilk, Slow-cooked turbot with Girolles & broccolini and carbon-neutral beef-sirloin, aged carrots & beef jus.
Visit Salted & Hung’s website here.
Yàn
Enjoy Yàn’s Cantonese cuisine in the comfort of your own home with convenient bento boxes. Highlights include the Roasted duck & Fried rice bento or a premium bento box that brings out the natural sweetness in fresh seafood. The Wok-fried Live Crab with Chef special sauce and Cheung Fun ($100), an off-the-menu favourite for regular guests comes with fresh crab coated with a flavoursome superior stock of fried radish, fried flounder fish, oyster sauce and Shaoxing wine served atop pan-fried Cheung fun.
Visit Yàn’s website here.
Local brands
There’s no time better to support fellow Singaporeans than National Day!
Little Duck Barn
If you are looking for something extravagant and unique to add to the dinner table, look no further than Little Duck Barn’s Foie Gras Mi-Cuit, a traditional French dish at its best. Mi-Cuit is a style of cooking where the foie gras is half cooked at a low temperature, taking away the gaminess usually present. The homegrown local brand excels in this niche market, serving high quality French imported duck liver with decadent homemade jams to pair. Little Duck Barn’s National Day bundle ($65) includes a Classic small terrine and two jams – Spiced Apple Pie and Basil Berry. Best served with toasted ciabatta and a glass of sweet wine for your fancy taste buds!
Visit Little Duck Barn’s website here or @littleduckbarn on Instagram.
GudSht
Feel anything from Shiok to Mabuk with GudSht – a local bottled cocktail label born in the midst of the pandemic last year. With a mission to spread cheer and good vibes as we stay home at the height of the pandemic, GudSht’s carefully crafted commemorative edition of local cocktails this National day hits home with limited-edition cocktails inspired by Singapore’s best-loved national icons – Phua Chu Kang, the Merlion, Marina Bay Sands and our beloved hawker centres. Expect to find cleverly named cocktails such as ‘Lepak Ah’, ‘Steady Lah’, ‘Shiok Sia’ and ‘Swee Boh’ with unusual flavours like chrysanthemum tea and wolfberry syrup concoctions.
Visit GudSht’s website here.
The Marmalade Pantry
Treat yourself to local flavoured cakes and cupcakes featuring popular nostalgic flavours like Gula Melaka and Ondeh Ondeh from The Marmalade Pantry’s National Day-exclusive selection.
Visit The Marmalade Pantry’s website here.
Kinki Restaurant + Bar
Experience an explosion of flavours with contemporary Japanese Restaurant Kinki in a range of takeaway and delivery options such as the Unagi Claypot ($35) – a full-on umami flavour with a touch of sweetness of chopped eel on fried rice, or a fuss-free option with their Bowls of Fun.
Visit Kinki Restaurant + Bar's website here.
