Pasar to table 3.0: A Sindhi Diwali
Sat, 07 Nov
|Museum of Food
Join us for our third installation of Pasar to Table! This November, we celebrate Deepavali, also known as Diwali.
Time & Location
07 Nov 2026, 11:30 am – 2:00 pm
Museum of Food, 102 Joo Chiat Rd, #02-01, Singapore 427396
About the event
In celebration of Deepavali this year, we’ll be cooking up a Sindhi feast together at the Museum of Food! Join us for a communal cook-and-dine led by Chef Shalu of Little Green Kitchen, and learn to make hearty family-style Sindhi dishes using wet market ingredients.
Sindhis are a community from Sindh (now Pakistan) who migrated after Partition and brought their love of food, family and a good card game with them. Diwali in a Sindhi home means Lakshmi Puja, a big feast and plenty of mithai or besan laddu if you’re lucky!
The Sindhi community's presence began in Singapore when Sindhi merchants and traders arrived via the historic Bombay–Kobe trade route. Wassiamull Assomull is believed to have been the first Sindhi to visit Singapore. In 1864, he opened the first Sindhi textile and silk business (known as Messrs. Wassiamull Assomull & Co.).
Following the 1947 partition of India and Pakistan,…