Eden Sanctuary Floral Cafe – Taste a Rainbow!

Eden Sanctuary Floral Cafe – Taste a Rainbow!

Dining

What color is your food? Do you know that certain foods can be classified into color groups such as red, green and purple, and that you can reap different health benefits from each color? At Eden Sanctuary Floral Cafe in China Square Central, meals can...


Pasta Stylo – Fashionably Delicious!

Pasta Stylo – Fashionably Delicious!

Dining

Red G-strings and mannequins dressed in high fashion are probably the last things you would expect to find in a dining establishment, but these are the first things you would see when you walk into Pasta Stylo. On first glance, the restaurant at City...


Dian Xiao Er – Traditional Chinese Inn

Dian Xiao Er – Traditional Chinese Inn

Dining

Each time we pass by a Dian Xiao Er restaurant, we would do a double take. Unlike your typical Chinese restaurants that tend to go for a classy or modern look these days, the decor here is decked out like a traditional Chinese inn. Even the staff are...


Freemasons’ Hall – Masonic Club in Singapore

Freemasons’ Hall – Masonic Club in Singapore

Travel / Singapore

If you have read Dan Brown’s books, no doubt you would have come across several references to Freemasonry and the Knights Templar (a Masonic body). Freemasonry started out in England in the 16th century. Notable members of this highly secretive...


Nostalgia Hotel – Potion Bar

Nostalgia Hotel – Potion Bar

Dining

In recent years, a few boutique hotels have sprouted in Tiong Bahru, the oldest estate in Singapore. Amongst them is Link Hotel, as well as Wangz Hotel where we enjoyed a meal and stayed for a night previously. Just across the street from these two hotels...


Straits Cafe @ Rendezvous Hotel – International Buffet

Straits Cafe @ Rendezvous Hotel – International Buffet

Dining

Whenever friends ask me for hotel buffet recommendations, the few places that I would always mention include Cafebiz at Traders Hotel and Straits Café at Rendezvous Hotel. Ever since stumbling upon the Rendezvous buffet dinner quite by chance a few...


100+ Places to Watch World Cup 2010 in Singapore

100+ Places to Watch World Cup 2010 in Singapore

Travel / Singapore

Caught the football fever? Wondering where to watch World Cup 2010 in Singapore? Here’s a compilation of over 100 places in Singapore where the matches are broadcast live. These venues are divided into bars, theaters, fast food restaurants, community...


Wee Nam Kee Hainanese Chicken Rice – Top of the Crop?

Wee Nam Kee Hainanese Chicken Rice – Top of the Crop?

Dining

When it comes to Hainanese chicken rice, I like it oily and flavorful rather than healthy and bland, calories be damned! My favorite place to indulge in a sinful but oh-so-good plate of chicken is Tong Fong Fatt. Where is yours? Wee Nam Kee is one of...


15 Minutes at Laselle – Art/Music/Design Cafe

15 Minutes at Laselle – Art/Music/Design Cafe

Dining

In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes. When Andy Warhol said this in 1968, it gave rise to the expression “15 minutes of fame”. With Youtube, blogs and the sheer number of reality shows these days, it sure looks like...


Restaurant Replaces Menus with iPads [Video]

Dining / FoodBytes / Technology

A restaurant in Sydney, Australia, has replaced its printed menus with...



Predict the Winner to The Rookie and Win a Nokia E72

Predict the Winner to The Rookie and Win a Nokia E72

Contests

Are you a fan of The Apprentice, the American reality TV show by property tycoon Donald Trump? If you are, you might be interested in the Singapore version — The Rookie. The Rookie is a webcast reality show presented by Nokia. 12 contestants have...


Cats of the World Photo Exhibition

Cats of the World Photo Exhibition

Travel / Singapore

Calling all feline lovers! The Cats of the World photo exhibition is back for the 4th time in Singapore. This year, it takes place at the Arts House and features 50 photographs contributed by photographers from around the world — all starring cats!...


Ming Kitchen Seafood Restaurant – Can You Smell What the XO Is Cookin’?

Ming Kitchen Seafood Restaurant – Can You Smell What the XO Is Cookin’?

Dining

Liquor is not just for drinking these days. Marrying liquor or wine with food is a growing trend. There’s champagne chocolate, liquor cakes, and even martini ice cream! Hawkers have also taken to adding XO cognac to soup, so much so that the XO...


20 WORST Drinks in the World

Dining / FoodBytes

Not too long ago people were freaking out over 1,000 calorie mooncakes....


Relish – All About Burgers!

Relish – All About Burgers!

Dining

Guest-contributed restaurant review by Joyce Ler. If you know your burgers well enough, you would be highly familiar with Relish, located on the second storey of Cluny Court. This casual eatery that specializes in burgers is the subsequent venture of...


Gurkha Palace Restaurant – Saunf Far, So Good

Gurkha Palace Restaurant – Saunf Far, So Good

Dining

It has been a long while since our last visit to Little India. Apart from the colorful temples and shops selling sarees and collectibles, this vibrant district is also a treasure trove of delicacies. Being a huge fan of Indian cuisine in general, I love...


Madam Tan’s Nasi Lemak – Got Lemak?

Madam Tan’s Nasi Lemak – Got Lemak?

Dining

So we have been hearing a lot of online chatter, mostly glowing reviews, about a certain Madam Tan’s Nasi Lemak at Maxwell Food Centre. One of our favorite local dishes just happens to be nasi lemak (rice cooked in coconut milk) so this is something...


Hotel Re! – International Buffet Brunch

Hotel Re! – International Buffet Brunch

Dining

Our favorite hotel, Hotel Re!, has launched an international buffet brunch. This buffet goes by the catchy name Re!Plenish 923, which takes place on weekends and public holidays from 9 to 3 (hence 9-2-3). So if you are someone who takes pleasure in weekend...


Oriole Cafe & Bar – Silk from Milk

Oriole Cafe & Bar – Silk from Milk

Dining

If you love coffee, you would probably like it even more when it comes with a bit of art. Now, I am by no means a coffee connoisseur, although I do know a good coffee when I taste one. But it doesn’t take a connoisseur to appreciate coffee art,...


Magnum Gold Ice Cream – Gold on a Stick?!

Magnum Gold Ice Cream – Gold on a Stick?!

Dining

By now, many of you would have heard of, seen or even licked the new Magnum Gold ice cream. But in case you haven’t, the Gold edition is the latest flavor in the Wall’s premium Magnum ice cream range, newly launched today. Notice the “?!”...