Qantas has introduced two new dishes to its Singapore lounges, inspired by a decades‑long relationship with a local restaurant that became a much‑loved stop for generations of Qantas pilots and cabin crew.
Wing Seong Fatty’s story began in World War Two, when founder Au Yuen, and his son Au Chan Seng, fondly known as ‘Fatty’, quietly fed prisoners of war at risk to themselves. As that story spread among Australian Servicemen and RAAF pilots, Fatty’s became a place crews found their way to and kept coming back.
For Qantas pilots in particular, Fatty’s became the familiar table at the end of a long flight, a place where the welcome never changed, no matter how much the world around it did. For generations flying the Kangaroo Route through Singapore, it was as much a part of the journey as the flight itself.
When Fatty’s announced it would close, Qantas worked with the Au family to bring two of its signature dishes to the Singapore lounges in Changi Airport as a way of carrying something of Fatty’s forward. The crispy spring rolls and nuclear chicken will be served in the First and Business lounges respectively.
