Combat rations, ugh. They’re no culinary masterpiece for sure, but they’re certainly there for you when you need them the most. At least, for Singapore’s national servicemen.
But one photographer saw more potential in them than the average citizen. As a personal homage to NS50 — a campaign that commemorates more than one million conscripts of Singapore’s compulsory National Service ever since it began in 1967 — 38-year-old photographer John Heng and his team transformed ordinary-looking food from the Singapore Armed Forces’ ration packs into beautifully styled plates worthy of any fine dining restaurant.
Some of the dishes included chicken rice, sweet potato soup, and glutinous rice — and the series of shots was so impressive and unrecognizable that Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen shared it on Facebook yesterday.
Check ’em out below.
Whaddya think — worthy of Gordon Ramsay’s approval?
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