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Time To Have A Top 100 Restaurants List For Singapore
Two of Singapore’s renowned restaurants Iggy’s and Waku Ghin have made it to the the “World’s 50 Best Restaurants” list. While we can be proud to say that Singapore has a place in the culinary map, it...
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Uma Uma Ramen – Top Restaurant Iggy’s Opens a Ramen Shop
Another ramen shop with an impressive CV opens in Singapore – famous Fukuoka ramen chain, 59 years of history, helmed by Ignatius Chan, owned by Iggy’s the top restaurant in Singapore. He is also...
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Paris Baguette – Korean Bakery Finally Comes to Singapore, But Why Seoul...
Paris Baguette is finally here in Singapore! If you are thinking this is some French brand, nope. This chain is actually the top Korean bakery, receiving “constant love” for its freshly baked bread,...
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The Inspiring Paralympics Medalist Laurentia Tan – How She Overcame Eating...
My first correspondences started with Laurentia at a time of credit crunch and recession, when news was all doom and gloom. But the ever cheerful Laurentia stayed very positive and replied jokingly,...
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Breadtalk Mooncakes – Mooncakes In ‘Vintage’ Chest with Free LiuLi. For Real
Breadtalk is probably Singapore’s most popular bread-makers, and they have also worked hard on their 2012 Mooncake collection. If you are the type who wants to impress your mother-in-law, perhaps you...
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Epilogue Café – When Popular Bookstore Opens a Café
Popular Bookstore opens a café. Yes, the same Popular Bookstores where hungry, I mean kiasu parents hunt down assessment books and 10-years series for their adolescent to get a head-start of their...
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Nassim Hill Bakery Bistro Bar – Breakfast, Brunch, Bakes & Beer All-In-One
Nassim Hill Bakery Bistro Bar has one of the most interesting concepts – bakery with brunch items in the dawn, bistro in the noon, and transformed to a charming bar by dusk with DJs spinning at the...
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SunnyHills – Why Do Taiwanese Give Pineapple Cakes During Mid-Autumn?
Mooncakes are the traditional delicacy for the Mid-Autumn Festival, where round mooncakes resemble the full moon and is a symbol of family reunion and completeness in traditional Chinese culture. We...
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Lee Kum Kee – ‘Fast, Fresh & Simple’ Products Giveaway!
Lee Kum Kee’s founder Mr Lee Kum Sheung has been known to be the inventor of oyster sauce, and I know many are fans of its dipping sauces. My dad particularly liked the spicy-sweet Hoisin sauce which...
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Din Tai Fung at Taipei 101 + Guide To Eating Xiao Long Bao The Right Way
[Taipei, Taiwan] Din Tai Fung is the world’s most famous Xiao Long Bao (small steamed buns) makers which originated in Taiwan, ranked as one of the world’s top 10 restaurants by The New York Times in...
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Special Shanghai Tim-Sum – The Queenstown Dumplings Are Now At Maxwell
Tong Xing Ju 同心居 Special Shanghai Tim-Sum used to be from Queenstowns Margaret Drive Food Centre, and is known to serve delicious Shanghainese style dumplings, noodles and soup. The hawker stall had...
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Din Tai Fung – Mid-Autumn Taiwan Pineapple Cakes Giveaway!
Looks like the Taiwanese style pineapple cakes are gaining popularity in Singapore as gifts during the Mid-Autumn festival, other than traditional lotus mooncakes. (Read: Why Do Taiwanese Give...
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5 Ways to Avoid Overeating at The Buffet Restaurant
Do you both love and hate buffets – love the variety and choice of food, but hate the feeling of overeating, with a sense of guilty and feeling plumpish at the same time. Not a good feeling to have,...
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5 Stalls To Try At Maxwell Food Centre (Before It Closes)
If you have not heard, Maxwell Road Food Centre will be closing for two months to clean up the premises and do some minor renovation. It feels like an “again?”, but the last time they did it is way...
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Crystal Jade Mooncakes – Premium Gold Treasure $88.80 Mooncakes!
Why would you buy mooncakes for, I may ask? 5 out of 10 I asked gave me any other answers, but the taste of mooncakes: The pretty packaging, that famous ‘brand’, the free gifts, the innovativeness of...
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The Peninsula Hong Kong – Superb Divine Egg Custard Mooncakes, Available in...
The Peninsula Hotel (香港半岛酒店) is one of Hong Kong’s best and classiest hotels, and they are known to produce one of the best mooncakes around. Imagine my huge surprise when I found out that I did not...
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The Star Vista’s Complete Food & Restaurant Guide
One of the most anticipated malls in Singapore, The Star Vista has finally opened at Buona Vista! Are you excited or what? The Star is quite unlike any other. From a distance, the architectural design...
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Shangri-La’s Waterfall Café – Perfect Place For That Romantic Dinner Date
Recently, I have been a “date guru” of sorts. Not just food anymore. People asking me where to bring their girlfriends on a first date, first month anniversary, first year anniversary etc etc....
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5 Best Mooncakes for 2012 – The Good, The Pretty and The Weird
If there are any trends of mooncakes in 2012, it will be a) flavours are getting more adventurous b) many shops other than the hotels and restaurants are selling mooncakes, and c) they are getting so...
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Tokyo’s Tsukiji Fish Market – What To Do, How To Go, What To Eat
[Tokyo, Japan] Tsukiji Fish Market (築地市場), the world’s most famous fish market, is the must-go for first time visitors to Tokyo Japan. This popular wholesale market is where you will experience the...
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