Gin Khao – Thai Restaurant At East Coast. Check Out The Thai Flag Cake
“Gin Khao” means ‘eat rice’ in Thai, which is what my Thai friends will say at the start of the meal. This is also the name of a new Thai restaurant located at East Coast Parkway, in a standalone...
View ArticleThe City Square Mall Food Guide – The Must Tries At Singapore’s 1st Eco-mall
The thing I noticed about City Square Mall is its wide range of restaurants and cafes. A lasagne café, a full-pancakes restaurant, these are some food choices not available anywhere else. With over...
View Article21 Cube Artisan Ice Cream – Fried Ice Cream Rolls Is The Next Food Trend
Sweet treats continue to invade Singapore. After soft serves, frozen yogurt, Korean Bingsu, Thai style ice cream, the next item that will be in trend (may we boldly guess)… will be fried ice cream...
View ArticleBrother Bird – No More Honeycomb. Stateland Café Opens Another Soft Serve Cafe
Brother Bird took over the defunct Honeycomb at Bali Lane and nestled itself there. For your info, Brother Bird belongs to the Stateland Boys too. Stateland Café first made an impact with their Red...
View Article10 Singapore Heritage Bakeries and Shops – For Old School Cakes And Kueh
Originally, I had wanted to publish a SG50 book on old-school bakeries and cake shops in Singapore, to remember bits and pieces of memories of my childhood. Finding these shops, getting the owners to...
View ArticleBrother Bird – No More Honeycomb. Stateland Café Opens Another Soft Serve Cafe
Brother Bird took over the defunct Honeycomb at Bali Lane and nestled itself there. For your info, Brother Bird belongs to the Stateland Boys too. Stateland Café first made an impact with their Red...
View Article7 Hainanese Chicken Rice Based Food – Pizza, Salad, Bread, Xiao Long Bao, Sushi!
Don’t you use love it when our Singapore restaurants execute some creativity into their food? Using our Singapore National Dish Hainanese Chicken Rice as a form of inspiration, these foods are created...
View Article8 Must-Try Zi Char Places in Singapore
Zi Char (or Cze Char) is the kind of food that can warm your heart, especially when you dine with your entire family and friends over dinner, each ordering their favourite dish of hor fun, kang kong...
View ArticleRainbow Cottage Cafe – Pretty SG50 and Paddlepop Cheesecake At AMK
Chanced upon this humble non-descript café along Ang Mo Kio Avenue 10, joining Murphy’s, Workbench Bistro, Mojito Café, Double Scoops and Hang Out Café in this vibrant GRC. (GRC is the buzz word now)....
View ArticleNam Seng Noodle House – A Taste Of Old School Wanton Mee
Wanton mee, yes. I used to eat wanton mee at least 3 times a week. Whether it is the Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong or Thai-style, I love all of them. The thin noodles tossed in savoury sauce, those...
View ArticleBakersfield – Sandwich Bar & Patisserie At Fusionopolis
Not located in California but in Singapore (there is a Bakersfield city in Southern California), Bakersfield is full of bakers’ feel. That is how we feel about this newly opened patisserie at...
View ArticleThe Bakehouse by Carpenter & Cook – Cafe At Alexandra With Pasta and Pizzas
Carpenter & Cook opens The Bakehouse at Alexandra Central, which is just next to IKEA and has Alibabar, Otoko Ramen and Toast Box as neighbours on the ground floor. The other levels are half...
View ArticleHashida Garo – Japanese Tea Ceremony and Wagashi Space. Beautiful
The Japanese’s dedication to perfection just amazes me again, and again. There we were at Hashida Garo, a Japanese tea gallery (‘Garo’ means ‘gallery’) where we sat around a U-shaped tea-ceremony...
View ArticleJamie’s Italian – 2nd Singapore Restaurant At Forum Orchard Opens
After two years, Jamie’s Italian opened its second in Singapore at Forum Shopping Orchard, possibly a suitable location considering the sizable expat community in the area. The difference between the...
View ArticleWhat Crystal Jade’s Former Owner Did Recently, May Touch You
The last time we heard about Crystal Jade was when Stanchart invested close to S$70 million in Crystal Jade Group Holdings for its overseas expansion in June this year. Many of us should be familiar...
View ArticleBenjamin Browns – These Dessert Milkshakes Will Shake Things Up
The buzzword in food trend is “Instagram worthy” or “Instagrammable”. Waffles, rainbow cakes and flowing lava cakes all have their moment of glories. The next to step into the picture is the...
View ArticleLokkee – Burning Pineapple? TungLok’s New Chinese Restaurant Sells Modern Fun...
A flaming pineapple, Chow Mein, Chop Suey, bottles of Sriracha sauce and English pop songs, these are some of the things you can expect at TungLok Group’s Lok Kee at Plaza Singapura. This is not the...
View ArticlePark Bench Deli – Sandwiches Need Not Be Boring Again
There will come a time when you get bored of the usual subs and sandwiches. I have friend who eat the same old same old sandwiches, complains about how bland they are, and continues chomping them down...
View ArticleGarçons – Affordable European Fare In A Foodcourt
There is a Chinese saying, “Hang hang chu zhuang yuan”, which literally means there is a scholar in every line of work. Immanuel’s story is one which can inspire, the former sous chef of the...
View ArticleThe Taste Of Fengshan Is Really Heavenly! #reasonstoeat
The first instagram photo of Worker’s Party chairperson Sylvia Lim tucking away at Orh Luak (Oyster Omelette) earned her some space on the papers, speculations and remarks all over. An (innocent)...
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