"A lot of my customers are like family... The community is very important," Lam said. "We love to talk to the customers," added Lam's mother, Rosalind Tan.
Tan opened Shiok Singapore Kitchen with her kids in 1999 because she enjoyed entertaining friends with food. At the time, ethnic cuisine was rarer on the Peninsula - even finding sushi was a challenge, Tan said.
The restaurant started in San Carlos for six months then moved to 1137 Chestnut St., a side street between Oak Grove and Santa Cruz Avenues in Menlo Park.
Tan's mother was a cook and part of the Peranakan culture in Singapore. She didn't measure anything - "agak-agak" is the phrase they used for adding an estimated amount.
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