CHUA Jim Neo 蔡認娘

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Born in 1907, Chua Jim Neo is the eldest daughter of Chua Kim Teng and Leong Ah Soon. At age 15, she married Lee Chin Koon, a storekeeper, in an arranged marriage. She had five children, a daughter and four boys, the eldest of whom was Lee Kuan Yew, who became prime minister of Singapore in 1959. In Lee Kuan Yew's memoirs, he described his mother fondly as a lady who devoted her life to raising her children to be well-educated and independent despite the hardships she faced. Chua Jim Neo at the age of 67, wrote her definitive Mrs Lee’s Cookbook in 1974 on Peranakan Cusine. Chua Jim Neo, passed away in 1980 aged 73. She was inducted into Singapore's Women's Hall of Fame in 2015. Her legacy is continued when some three decades after Mrs Lee’s Cookbook was first published, the author’s granddaughter, Shermay, who gave up a career in banking to start a cooking school, revised and relaunched it in 2003 as The New Mrs Lee’s Cookbook.

Mrs LEE Chin Koon nee CHUA Jim Neo, death - The Straits Times, 9 August 1980
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