The Buzz | Singapore to get Michelin Guide in 2016

The Michelin Guide, long regarded as the world’s foremost authority of culinary merit, is set to put out a Singapore edition in 2016, The Straits Times reported yesterday.
“This will be the first time a South-east Asian country gets its own guide,” the paper says. However, Singapore is the fourth country in Asia – after Japan, Hong Kong and Macau – to earn the distinction.
Well-known firm Michelin, opened by brothers Andre and Edouard Michelin, first hit upon the idea to distribute free maps to French motorists in 1900, in a bid to boost demands for its tires. As the guide’s popularity grew, the company started to produce guides to other countries and realised the restaurants section was by far the most well-received.
Michelin then decided to hire inspectors to rate and critique restaurants, recalls the Straits Times.