Susan Peh can easily let busy days get the better of her time. But amidst prepping for a slew of legal cases, she’s found a way to nourish her family ties through food.
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“When I was in Raffles Girls’ School, I bought a notebook and started compiling my family’s recipes,” Susan recalls. “I must have been about 14 when I started writing them down by hand, in a bid to preserve our traditions and satisfy my fascination with cooking.”
Like her mother, Melissa Peh’s expression of love is often shown through what she can serve up on a plate. “This Mother’s Day, I plan to honour mum by organising a nice family meal together.
Each family member will whip up a special dish.” Susan also intends to pass down a glittering diamond necklace, containing pieces of jade given to her by her late mother-in-law, to Melissa.
“I believe they were gifts from her own mother, but my mother-inlaw graciously bestowed them on me in 1987. It is infinitely important to have something passed on through generations,” says Susan.
“I think the necklace makes a very precious heirloom, since each jade piece is unique and is formed by interlocking microcrystals, very much like how each of our lives and multitudinous threads of memories are unique.”
The heirloom is a sentimental object for the family in other ways as well.
“On my birthday many years ago, my husband Adrian had the jade designed into a diamond necklace and surprised me with it,” Susan reveals. That touching gesture is one of the many reasons why Melissa can’t wait to call it her own.
“It is an honour to inherit this, knowing it has been passed on from my paternal great-grandmother to my grandmother, my mum and now me. It also speaks of my dad’s love for my mum,” says Melissa. “It will always be worn, literally, close to my heart, and I would love to pass it on to my own child in the future.”
Text: Natalya Molok