Les Créations de Narisawa – Top Restaurant In Asia Serves Soil, Charcoal & Bark
[Tokyo, Japan] Les Créations de Narisawa took top honours by being the Number 1 restaurant at the inaugural Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants by S.Pellegrino. So it can be said as the Best Restaurant in...
View ArticleChopSuey Café at Dempsey – Surreally Beautiful and Surprisingly Bad
Chopsuey Café at Dempsey is PS Café’s first foray into Asian cuisine, inspired by memories of Westernized Chinese food of the owners. While ‘chop suey’, a mixed meat-vegetable dish itself isn’t the...
View ArticleSaint Marc Café Vivocity – Its Chocoro and Little Fuji Are To Live For
Everybody comes to Saint Marc Café for its Chocoro, which in short means chocolate croissant. The Japanese tai-tais get it by the dozens, both its white and dark variants, or enjoy it at the quiet...
View ArticleStreet 50 at Bay Hotel – East-Meets-West Restaurant Needs Fine Refinements
Street 50 Restaurant and Bar at Bay Hotel Singapore may suffer from an identity crisis. The pro is you get a diverse range of food from Italian, French, American, Vietnamese, Indonesian and...
View ArticleAquamarine Marina Mandarin – Huge Buffet Spread with Flavours of Siam
There is just SO MUCH FOOD at Aquamarine. After recceing one round to survey the foods, I must say this buffet restaurant at Marina Mandarin has quite a huge spread, usually known for the Singapore...
View ArticleBing Bian – An Affair With Taiwanese Shaved Ice + Vouchers Giveaway!
Selling cold desserts should always work in hot hot Singapore, and what’s more with the sudden popularity of Taiwanese shaved ice and glass jelly desserts. Bing Bian 冰变 with the tagline “an affair...
View ArticleWindowsill In The Woods – Awesome Pies in a Homely Fairytale-like Cafe
Windowsill Pies is such a pretty place, and feels like a storybook scene! Before I even go on talking about the pies which everybody is raving about, this café has such much character in its décor,...
View ArticleNahm Bangkok – Thailand’s Best Restaurant Was Good, Not Enough To Wow
[Bangkok, Thailand] Nahm has a midas touch, debuting at World’s 50 Best Restaurant at the 50th position, also named Number 3 in Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants, effectively making it Thailand’s top...
View ArticleIpoh Lou Yau Bean Sprouts Chicken – Ipoh Horfun Boleh!
Word has it that Malaysia’s Ipoh makes the best hor fun, kway tiao and ‘tau gay’ (bean sprouts) due to its karst limestone mountain mineral water – the horfun will end up smoother, and sprouts grown...
View ArticleJAAN – The One Restaurant To Watch, and One of Singapore’s Best
Jaan under Chef de Cuisine Julien Royer recently won the ‘The One To Watch’ title and is ranked No. 22 in the inaugural Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants, signifying that this is indeed the restaurant to...
View ArticleCalls to Boycott Jollibee Singapore Ridiculous & Uncalled For
There has been a Facebook Page to “Boycott Jollibee Singapore” and posts on TR Emeritus to “Boycott-Pinoy-first business”, gathering lots of comments, many of which are insulting to the Filipinos and...
View ArticleRS Deli – Sedap Chicken Satay and Beef Rendang Burgers + Voucher Giveaways
People go to RS Deli mainly for two things – For their sweet garlic emping crackers, and Nasi Lemak Burger. Even as a bottle of the Indonesia crackers go at $18, they are usually quickly snapped up...
View Article5 Best Matcha Cafes in Singapore – Where Green Is The New Black
Matcha (or maccha), the fine powder green tea has found its way to Singapore as the next possible food fad. Look at the number of Matcha related restaurants and cafes opening up – Tsujiri, Nana’s...
View ArticleDim Sum Bar Hong Kong – Not Your Typical Dim Sum Place
[Hong Kong] Throw a stone in Hong Kong and you are likely to hit a Dim Sum place. Most would be of reasonable quality, unless you are really in bad luck. If you are in search for somewhere you can...
View ArticleGordon Grill Goodwood Park – Charming Continental Restaurant Turns 50!
Can’t believe that I had never dined at Gordon Grill, which has been established since 1963. That makes the restaurant half a century old! Located at the Goodwood Park Hotel, Gordon Grill is...
View ArticleAlfero Artisan Gelato Lor Kilat – I Can Believe It’s The Best Gelato In...
Fellow food blogger Jason Sim from “For The Love Of Food” concurred that Alfero Artisan Gelato is his best in Singapore. In his final blogpost, he wrote, “Don’t believe, then you got to try it to...
View ArticleBeanstro Takashimaya – New American Restaurant by The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf
The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf coffee chain has opened another new American concept restaurant at Takashimaya – Beanstro. I wished the name sounded more hip. But it is “Bean” and “Bistro”- get it? The...
View ArticlePlaza Brasserie Park Royal – All You Can Eat Seafood Fiesta Buffet + Vouchers...
Put seafood and buffet together, and I am sure many faces will light up with tummies growling. Plaza Brasserie at Royal is having a “Seafood Fiesta” from now till May 31, and this is not just any...
View ArticleGenki Sushi – Order from an iPad, Sent by a Train
I always have certain reservations for conveyor belt sushi despite my liking for Japanese food. Would the sushi stay fresh after going round and round and round? And yikes, we may have seen customers...
View ArticleIto-Kacho Mandarin Gallery – Japanese Yakiniku Restaurant Brings Premium To A...
There is barbeque, and there is yakiniku. Not very much different in the strictest sense of the word. But barbeque is commonly associated with smoke and burnt meat. Over at Ito-Kacho Yakiniku...
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