Air crew bid farewell to century-old restaurant Wing Seong Fatty's
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SINGAPORE — As a young Royal Australian Air Force pilot in 1974, Ronald Haack got a first taste of the “best Chinese food” he had eaten, at Wing Seong Fatty’s first location in Albert Street.For the next five decades, the Australian returned to the reAir crew bid farewell to century-old restaurant Wing Seong Fatty's
SINGAPORE — As a young Royal Australian Air Force pilot in 1974, Ronald Haack got a first taste of the “best Chinese food” he had eaten, at Wing Seong Fatty’s first location in Albert Street.For the next five decades, the Australian returned to the restaurant whenever he was in Singapore.Haack, 74, who went on to become a Boeing 747 pilot with Australian airline Qantas and is now retired, did not find the restaurant by chance.Patronising the restaurant was a longstanding practice begun and sustained by his fellow air force servicemen.The Cantonese restaurant was famed among pilots of the Royal Australian Air Force and Qantas, as the founder Au Yuen and his son Au Chan Seng — endearingly nicknamed “Fatty” — had secretly given food to prisoners of war during World War II.It also became a haunt for crew from other carriers such as British Airways and Emirates.The restaurant announced on Facebook in April that it would be shutting down on June 28 after 100 years, as it was unable to find a successor to continue the business.
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