Seetoh Kok Fye (born 1962),[1][2] better known as KF Seetoh, is a Singaporean food critic and photographer.

The fourth of five children, Seetoh attended St. Joseph's Institution and the Baharuddin Vocational Institute. Beginning in 1983, he worked as a photographer The Straits Times, but left in 1990 to establish his own photographic studio.[3] In 1998, Seetoh and Lim Moh Cher founded Makansutra (a portmanteau combining "makan" and "sutra"),[4] a food guide publisher dedicated to Asian cuisine.[5]

In 2008, Seetoh was awarded the Special Recognition Award by the Singapore Tourism Board.[6]

Seetoh collaborated with Urbanspace, a company managing food halls in the United States, to open a Singaporean hawker centre, near Times Square, New York, in 2022.[7]

On Dec 21 2024, Seetoh's brother Kwok Meng died in a suspected gas explosion in his holiday villa in Italy.

References

  1. ^ Sulaiman, Suhaila (28 May 2001). "Drama fix on the news". The Straits Times. p. 11.
  2. ^ Yap, Jan. "K. F. Seetoh". Singapore Infopedia. National Library Board. Retrieved 16 May 2022.
  3. ^ "The 10 per cent man". The Straits Times. 6 March 2006. p. 4.
  4. ^ Apple, R. W. Jr. (10 September 2003). "Devouring Singapore's Endless Supper". The New York Times.
  5. ^ Seetoh, KF (4 January 2015). "7 items to take you to yong tau foo heaven". The New Paper. p. 26.
  6. ^ "Taking the honours in the tourism industry". The Straits Times. 5 March 2008. pp. H2.
  7. ^ Auto, Hermes (3 November 2021). "Makansutra founder K.F. Seetoh to open S'pore food hall in New York with US partner | The Straits Times". www.straitstimes.com. Retrieved 3 June 2022.
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