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Winners of Mother’s Day Giveaway: 5 Chocolate Cakes from Emicakes

1 month ago • 482 views
Contests
For Mother’s Day 2013, we collaborated with bakery chain Emicakes to give away their best selling chocolate cake. Find out if you are one of the 5 lucky Sparklette Facebook fans who have won the Pure Addiction chocolate cake for your mother! Winners Prize: 0.6kg Mother’s Day Pure Addiction chocolate cake (serves 5 to 8), worth S$43.80 each, from Emicakes Juliana Adnan Gavin Tan Teresa Tang Yoke Lan Melissa Chua...

Original Sin – Vegetarian Mediterranean Cuisine

• 2 months ago • 1,085 views
Food & Drink
Original Sin is an award-winning restaurant founded in 1997, best known for its signature vegetarian Mediterranean cuisine. Widely patronised by vegetarians, the restaurant’s focus is not so much the absence of meat in the menu, but rather to offer vegetarians a break from the mundane. After 16 years and counting, its innovative menu continues to evolve, impress and excite, so much so that even non-vegetarians form part of its loyal...

Unboxing VanityTrove Beauty Box – April 2013: Featuring Elizabeth Arden & Dr.Ci:Labo

2 months ago • 472 views
Beauty
For April 2013, Elizabeth Arden and Dr.Ci:Labo are the stars in my VanityTrove beauty box subscription. My beauty box for the spring season contains multiple sample-sized products from the two brands. VanityTrove S$25 per month Subscribe online Dr.Ci:Labo products (available at Takashimaya Level 1 and ION Orchard): The BB Perfect Cream White377+ is a multifunctional cosmetic cream made of 85 percent beauty ingredients. It smooths wrinkles, regenerates skin cells, moisturises...

Mother’s Day Giveaway: 5 Chocolate Cakes from Emicakes [Ended]

2 months ago • 4,468 views
Contests
Update: This contest has ended. The winners have been announced. Mother’s Day is a day for us to show our mother (and mother figure) how much we adore her. In Singapore, Mother’s Day is celebrated on the second Sunday of May, or May 12 for 2013, the one day in the whole year when mommies get to be showered with love, gifts and cakes. The Emicakes bakery chain has created...

Emicakes Chocolate Cakes – Rocky Road Adventure and Pure Addiction

• 2 months ago • 980 views
Food & Drink
This April and May, chocolate lovers can melt with delight at Emicakes. The bakery chain has whipped up a number of chocolate cakes, including its cake of the month and a certain chocolaty best seller for Mother’s Day. Rocky Road Adventure S$30.60 for 15cm (0.6kg) / S$53.20 for 20cm (1.2kg) Cake of the month for April is the new Rocky Road Adventure. Dressed in soft chocolate frosting, the filling comprises...

Salt Tapas & Bar – Aussie-style Tapas

• 2 months ago • 1,408 views
Food & Drink
With the introduction of a new head chef, Mathew Leighton, Salt Tapas & Bar at Raffles City Shopping Centre ushers in new additions to its menu. The young Sydney native began fostering his culinary skills at the tender age of 18, and is now a charming 26-year-old armed with vast experience. The tapas menu of bite-sized delights is deeply influenced by celebrity restaurateur Luke Mangan’s Australian roots, celebrating the freshness...

Picky App – Find Restaurant Recommendations Based on Mood & Preferences

• 2 months ago • 960 views
Food & Drink
I just discovered a new mobile app, called Picky, that all foodies in Singapore should have on their iPhone (it’s free too!). Having used many restaurant recommendation apps before, I find that they all seem to fall short when it comes to providing a good user experience. With Picky however, I managed to discover and locate really solid recommendations for food places. Picky iPhone app Free Download Coupled with the...

Ya Kun Kaya Treats

• 2 months ago • 1,486 views
Food & Drink
When people head to Ya Kun coffee stalls, the most typical food order is eggs and toast with kaya (creamy coconut jam) and butter. After all, these quick bites had been perennial crowd favourites since the chain’s humble beginnings in the 1940s. A recent visit to the Ya Kun Toastwich outlet at Fusionopolis yielded the surprise finds of new items like toast cubes and kaya balls. Not bad, we thought,...

Hello Kitty Sweets Cafe in Taipei, Taiwan – Every Girl’s Kawaii Land

• 3 months ago • 1,922 views
Travel
Before visiting Taipei, I had long heard of the Hello Kitty Sweets Cafe in the city. This cute café is licensed by Sanrio, and sells Hello Kitty-themed food. As a kitty fan girl, it was one of the must-go places in Taipei. Welcome to the Hello Kitty Sweets Cafe! Getting to the Hello Kitty Sweets Cafe is relatively easy. The nearest metro station is Zhongxiao Fuxing Station. Head along Da’an...

[Video] Discover the Spirit of Japan

3 months ago • 2,202 views
Travel
When people ask me what is the one place I have travelled to that I find most memorable, my answer is always Japan. As you would see from my Japan travelogues, it’s not hard for foreigners to fall in love with the eclectic culture, delicious food, safety and cleanliness, and all things beautiful in Japan. There are even more things I love about Japan, so I can keep going. Watch...