seoul korean charcoal bbq restaurant, town
decently average korean barbecue/grill at chijmes. we have passed this place countless times after dinner at sun with moon, made a resolution to come here the next time – and consequently never did,...
View Articlewr. babi guling sari kembar, bali
pretty good traditional balinese roast pig in the town of kerobokan. this is my first post of a few on bali, and what better way to start than something rather regionally famous? now, I’m no...
View Articleeast 8 – new york fusion tapas + bar, town
great fusion at the arcade of the hotel grand park city hall – one of the best meals I’ve had since coming back to singapore, both in terms of taste and innovation. it makes me very nostalgic for...
View Articlestreet food: satay, bali
we were drawn to this store by the delicious smell of fat on a barbie – this man was sat outside a temple where a ceremony was taking place, fanning rather voraciously at a fierce flame and the sticks...
View Articlethe lawn grill & salad café, buona vista
great grill-and-salad in biopolis – at the nanos building, which really is respite from what has been a long drought of appetizing food options in the area. the denotation of salad café raises...
View Articlezaffron kitchen, katong
standout indian food in the grastronomic wunderland that is katong – I don’t usually come to this area because it’s a little far out of my reach, but the many good reviews of this place were too great...
View Articlecut by wolfgang puck, town
utterly fantastic and wholly incomparable bliss-out desserts at this famed steakhouse in marina bay sands. I have unashamedly fallen in deep mire with this place – it’s now my go-to for indulging in...
View Articleazabu sabo hokkaido ice cream, clarke quay
really good ice cream at the central in clarke quay – really more in the style of gelato in its density and consistency. let’s start this sweltering sunday off easy with a bit of ice – this place does...
View Articlebutter cake-muffins
cute little butter muffins using my favourite ikea DRÖMMAR pan – very tasty and fluffy ones too. I really like baking in muffin tins, and these ones have high straight sides which encourage good rising...
View Articlegoa gajah: elephant cave, bali
no elephants here – it’s so named for the grandness of the architecture, and it’s a beaut. an amazing carved stone temple, a trek amidst temple ruins and a stretch of padi fields, and the quiet beauty...
View Articleubud rice fields, bali
cascading terraces of green and scattered pavilions. even the requisite smattering of souvenir shops – we bought an indigenous instrument, a kalimba (also known as a finger piano) – add to the charm of...
View Articletanah lot, bali
this rock-temple place was too touristy by half – and not the better for it: the beaches were dirty and the temple overcrowded – and I wish there had been less clouds so I could have grabbed better...
View Articlethai layered coconut jelly dessert (ta ko)
ta ko is a thai dessert that used to be pretty popular in singapore – we used to get it all the time in restaurants, but now it seems like its popularity is waning in the light of sweets like …...
View Articleblackball singapore, katong
great, simple grass jelly desert at this taiwanese chain outpost in katong. I may not know a great deal about great chinese desserts, but I do know what i like – and that means lots of sugared beans,...
View Articlehao yun lai restaurant, town
great chinese food – almost surprisingly so – hidden away in the gallery wing of the hotel rendezvous. this place has been featured in a couple articles here and there, but never seemed to hold onto...
View Articlebig eater restaurant, changi
fantastic seafood and zi char at this casual chinese restaurant nearish the singapore expo – really, it’s rather out of the way (for us), but it’s now become my family’s go-to place for crabs and the...
View Articleito-kacho, town
really good, really really good japanese grill-it-yourself hidden away in the mandarin gallery – which has a surprising number of decent restaurants (note to self: go back and have a look). my parents...
View Articlethe fat cat bistro, serangoon
good thai-indian-europeanish food at this hidden open-air cafe in serangoon. I’ve heard of this place quite a bit – but I never knew it was quite this close to me – and it’s now become a regular...
View Articlemarmalade pantry, town
good, better-than-average bistro food at this branch of the yummy-mummy chain in the ion shopping mall. this is a long post, because I came here twice in barely a week – and I’ll tell you why: the food...
View Articledin tai fung, serangoon
decent noodles and dumplings at this taiwanese chain – I’ve done a post on this one before because I really rather like it, but here’s an update (including one of their best dishes). also – this is an...
View Articlepandan kaya cake with a coconut frosting
yes, it’s that green. I don’t seem to have much affinity with pandan desserts – they all require second-tries-and-the-promise-of-practice. in truth, it’s probably not the fault of the screwpine leaf –...
View Articlethe home grill
some photos from a recent home dinner – mum’s a great cook, and while I wish I had the opportunity to cook more now that I’m home, it’s difficult to put up a convincing argument (even to myself) when...
View Articlesushi tei, town
good japanese chain outlet at the top of the raffles city shopping mall. so you must know by now that sushi tei is one of our favourite places – it’s become our regular hangout for decently reliable...
View Articletoast box, town
decent local food in rarefied surroundings at the marina bay sands shopping mall – like the barest extraction of our local food culture into something a little more accessible for both tourists and...
View Articlepagi sore indonesian restaurant, tanjong pagar
decent indonesian food at the newish 100am mall – a great spicy precursor to a sweet japanese treat. I had been craving indonesian food for a while now – which is rather strange seeing as how 1. I...
View Articlearoy dee thai kitchen, bugis
surprisingly good – though a tad salty – rustic home-style thai cooking at this small cafe along middle road, near the more famour rocher beancurd store. we’ve driven by this place countless times on...
View Articlepor kee eating house, tiong bahru
decent food at this hidden-away sprawl of a cze char eatery in the newly-hipstered enclave that is tiong bahru. long before the fakely bespectacled, tight-trousered, coiffed hippied teenager took over...
View Article粽子, or a family feast
rice dumplings (粽子: zòng zi) are a rather antiquated tradition passed down from our ancestors: when a celebrated and patriotic poet – qu yuan, of the warring states period in chinese history – drowned...
View Articlefukuichi japanese dining, somerset
great japanese, and one of the best deals about town for a good meal at reasonable prices. this place, I’ve known about for a long time, but only recently had the chance to visit – and then we went...
View Articlechilli padi nonya catering
really rather decent nonya offerings from the catering arm of this popular home-grown chain of restaurants – and really, what better way to come back from a patriotic holiday than with a cuisine as...
View Articlehong kong sheng kee dessert, city hall
pretty terrible renditions of asian desserts at the crowded basement of raffles city. I’m not sure it’s completely fair to post this right after the lovely specimen of dessert I showed you yesterday,...
View Articleburnt ends, chinatown
surprisingly – and I mean that in the best way – good modern offerings at this new(ish) restaurant in the bustling enclave that is keong saik road. I used modern because I am lax to use fusion – which...
View Articlechilli padi nonya restaurant, paya lebar
just a quick reminder that I’m doing a london vegfest giveaway here! alright peranakan in the deep of joo chiat – we came back here after i had a particularly good meal courtesy of the catering arm of...
View Articleyayoiken, tanjong pagar
cheap and quite okay japanese at the 100am mall in tanjong pagar. the first time I came here, we thought the food was impressive: large-ish portions, pleasantly-surprisingly-small prices and a huge...
View Articlethai express, changi airport
okayish neo-thai food at this across-the-island chain at changi airport’s terminal three. I have a soft spot for this place – much as I did busaba in london – it’s not the most authentic, and doesn’t...
View Articlejumbo seafood restaurant, changi
good seafood at this popular local seafood chain in the completely-and-inutterably-far national service resort and country club (otherwise the NSRCC in our acronym-loving-and-definition-forgetting...
View Articlew39 bistro, clementi
it is the weekend! which means it is brunch – and here is a good place to get a decent one, even if more than a little far out. this rustic little cafe is unpretentious (pretty rare in the recent …...
View Articlewatami japanese restaurant, bishan
this casual japanese eatery falls rather in the lower bound of mid-range japanese restaurants in singapre – the higher spaces filled by the likes of ichiban boshi and sushi tei – both in terms of...
View Articlemarugoto shokudo, ang mo kio
so there is great mid-range japanese, acceptably-decent mid-range (in the form of the previous post), and bad mid-range (that come with inexplicably high prices) – the latter of which is what I’m...
View Articlechewy junior, serangoon
since I’ve never had a piece of this myself, I’m leaving you the words of my rather manic sister (upon finding out that I had bought her a couple) – if it isn’t clear, the words in green are mine: …...
View Articlejumbo seafood restaurant, changi (take 2)
I’ve done this place before, but we came back here for another bout of seafood – and it was great – so here’s a reminder that though driving here makes you feel almost like you’re at the edge of the …...
View Articleindochilli restaurant, zion road
rather impressive indonesian food, and surprisingly cheap for being in this part of close-to-town. I’m no purist, if you haven’t figured, nor a connoisseur of indonesian food – so I treat it much the...
View Articleviolet oon’s kitchen, bukit timah
peranakan done up all fancy-like. it’s good food here, if you’re hankering for something a little out of the brunchordinary: local classics dished up pretty, as well as nonya interpretations of brunch...
View Articlemouth restaurant, chinatown
a much-lauded chinese restaurant especially known for their molten salted yolk pineapple buns (or liu sha bao, in short), this place is crowded to the rafters on a sunday afternoon – probably at least...
View Article2014 mooncakes from hua ting, orchard hotel
not-too-sweet traditionally-inclined mooncakes complete with beautiful red boxes. Continue reading →
View Articleso pho, serangoon nex
okay-for-weekday vietnamese food at the ever-crowded nex mall in serangoon. it’s only tuesday – and it already feels like a long week – and this calls for quick, cheap food. if you’re into that for...
View Articlenando’s, serangoon nex
easy weeknight dinner – nando’s is always an easy-go-to post-work, both here and in london. I like the standard half chicken, the parents like the espetadas (rather impressive hanging skewer of chicken...
View Articlepenang street, funan digitaLife mall
decent penangish, asian dishes at this (relatively) new cafe in the funan mall – great flavors and colours, but let down by the terrible rice. I’ve recently been into all these spice-y, exotic asian...
View Articlechopsuey cafe, martin road
fantastic, fantastic space, and really good food – chopsuey at martin road is a jewel in the p.s. cafe’s trove of consistent-though-expensive restaurants, and is one of my new favorite restaurants. the...
View Articlepagi sore indonesian restaurant, tanjong pagar
very-good indonesian food at tanjong pagar’s 100am – still very good, even after the first time we came here nearly a year a go (with many consistent great visits between). they’ve gotten a little bit...
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