satay celup
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Malay:
sate/satay celup
definitions
noun
- a Melakan dish of raw skewers (of seasoned meat, seafood, fishballs, etc.) served with a pot of thick, boiling satay sauce, into which the skewers are dipped to cook before eating. It is similar in concept to a steamboat.
Satay celup or steamboat satay is the dish where customers would dip their raw skewers of meat into a steaming pot of satay soup/gravy ... When Chinese food sellers appropriated satay or satay celup, pork was included in the dish.
— 2019, Cecilia Leong-Salobir. Urban Food Culture - Sydney, Shanghai and Singapore in the Twentieth Century. ISBN: 9781137516916. p.89
Gradually a sizzling hotpot, satay celup (or whatever you want to call it) laden with humour chunks was brought to a boil in the hospital ward.
— 2021, JK Joseph. What Lah....We Crazy, Funny Asians!: A Hotpot of Humor. Partridge Publishing Singapore. ISBN: 9781543763898. Preface
Gradually, everyone became much more mindful of hygeine, which was perhaps why satay celup fell out of favour ... The satay celup hawker, he added, would collect all the used skewers, wash them quickly in water — and use them again.
— 2019, Suk-wai Cheong (quoting Vincent Gabriel). The Sound Of Memories: Recordings From The Oral History Centre, Singapore. World Scientific Publishing Company. ISBN: 9789811208034. p.114