Is Apple CEO Tim Cook Secretly S’porean? He Correctly Guessed Local Food On Class 95’s Muttons In The Morning

At 1:22pm yesterday (Apr 18), Class 95 DJs The Muttons (aka Justin Ang and Vernon A) flexed their muscles.

Not literally but with a screenshot of a repost on X, formerly known as Twitter, from Apple Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Tim Cook.

The Muttons had reached out to Tim to catch up over teh or kopi on their Muttons In The Morning radio show.

Long shot, perhaps?

Guess not as the Apple CEO responded by reposting their request and writing: “Sounds great, I’ll see you tomorrow!”

Considering the pair last interviewed Tim in 2019 when he was last here, and received an invite to attend Apple’s ‘Wonderlust’ event in Cupertino, California, can we say we are surprised?

“We thought since you invited us so many times to your house, this time we thought we invite you to ours,” quipped Justin.

We can only picture Tim comically looking around before responding, “It is great to be here, and it is a marvellous studio.”

“Everybody should come down and visit,” Tim hilariously added.

The Apple CEO went on to share what he had been up to in the last 24 hours, which included meeting local photographer-influencer Lee Yik Keat aka YK at Gardens by the Bay as well as the opening of the new Apple Developer Center at Fusionopolis.

Considering his busy schedule yesterday and habit of waking up at 4am, the dude still sounds wide awake at this point.

Of course, what piqued our interest during the 20-minute interview was when the Muttons played a game with Tim on how well he knows our Singaporean food.

He was given a few ingredients to guess the local dish.

“This will take years and years of visiting Singapore. All your experience to see if you got this,” said Justin.

But with the ease of any Singaporean, Tim breezed through the test with ease, correctly guessing nasi lemak for the first one

Tim revealed that the second one, which was carrot cake, “will be hard for Americans”. He then said he had it at Tiong Bahru Market when he was here in 2019.

But what really took everyone by surprise was how he easily guessed it was kaya when given the clues: pandan, coconut and, sugar.

Unless he had help from his aides, we are now wondering if the Apple CEO might be a Singaporean in disguise.

In his interview with the Muttons, Tim also shared other highlights of his trip here, including his maiden visit to a completed Apple Marina Bay Sands store last night.

“The last time I was there, it was under construction, so it was so great to be there where it was open and alive with all kinds of customers from different parts of the world,” he said.

“You feel like you are at the United Nations, except everyone’s happy,” Tim laughed.

Tim also excitedly talked about the expansion of Apple’s campus Ang Mo Kio where the tech company plans to invest over US$250mil (S$340mil).

“You can probably change that to Apple Singapore Park or something” joked Vernon to an amused Tim.

And yes, the Muttons did probe Tim on when the new Apple Vision Pro was going to be made available in Singapore.

“Not exactly yet, that’s the keyword,” Tim said.

“But soon,” he added before whelping the appetites of Apple fans on how amazing the US-only product is.

Justin revealed that he had already experienced the Apple Vision Pro when he was in California a few months ago.

“My wife took a few pictures of me doing the demo, and the entire 15 minutes, my mouth was just gaped open,” said Justin drawing laughter from Tim.

Photos: Tim Cook/X, Muttons In The Morning/X