SINGAPORE - When offered a chance to cook a Chinese New Year meal for 60 fellow nursing home residents, former five-star hotel chef Francis Lim and avid cook Tan Lam Huat just could not say no.

The two men - residents at the NTUC Health Nursing Home in Jurong West - got to work right away and crafted a special menu made up of their favourite family recipes like stewed chicken and braised pork trotters.