All posts tagged: Chinese

Chinese New Year Snacks & Cookies – Munch On These!

Over the past couple of weeks, many of us celebrated Chinese New Year, the most important festival on the Chinese calendar. Food certainly plays a huge part in the celebrations. After the many rounds of steamboat, Yu Sheng, Bak Kwa (sweet barbecued sliced meat) and snacks, I am noticing a trend among my friends on Facebook lamenting the fact that they have to hit the gym... Read more →

Palm Beach Seafood Restaurant – Celebrating Chinese New Year

This is the first of a two-part review series on Palm Beach Seafood Restaurant. Are you still looking for a restaurant to dine at this Chinese New Year? Do you fancy having great seafood and customary festive goodies with wonderful-sounding names like “好事发财” or “步步高升” that actually taste as good as they sound? Welcome to Palm Beach... Read more →

Resorts World at Sentosa – The Dining Room [Hotel Guests Only]

Update on February 9, 2010: This restaurant is open only to Crockfords Tower Hotel guests. With all the buzz surrounding Resorts World at Sentosa, some of you may be looking to spend some time over here. Perhaps you are also curious about the dining options. What restaurants are there? Are they affordable? After watching movies like Ocean’s Eleven, casinos give me... Read more →

Claypot Fun – At the Playground

What first strikes you is the aroma wafting in the air. Next is the sight of a packed restaurant where claypot dishes fill every table, and a long line of eager customers waiting on. This describes a typical scene at Claypot Fun. (The word “fun” is a play on the phonetically similar “饭”, the Chinese character for rice.) Managed by Jumbo Seafood,... Read more →

The Cathay Restaurant – Revival of an Era Past

Not many home-grown companies in Singapore can boast of a history like that of The Cathay Restaurant. They had their roots planted in 1940, going back to even before the World War 2! In their heyday, they were considered one of the finest Chinese restaurants in Singapore. As you enter the restaurant, what first strike you are the blown-up photographs of movie stars and... Read more →

Kia Hiang Restaurant – Durian Delicacy

Durian. You either love it or hate it. I have to admit that I belong to the camp that can’t stand the smell of durian. The stench is so overwhelmingly strong that, in Singapore, the fruit hilariously gets its own warning sign on buses and trains. But for the people who can get past that initial stage, the taste of durian is like no other. It has been said that the... Read more →

Kia Hiang Restaurant – Mooncakes Packed with Tradition & Innovation

Isn’t the Mid-Autumn Festival colorful? Year after year, hotels and restaurants create new mooncake flavors quicker than you can say champagne truffle mooncake. It’s always fun to see what they whip up to please the diverse palates of Singaporeans. Kia Hiang Restaurant, in particular, have been the first to introduce several innovative and exciting mooncake... Read more →

Loong Fatt Tau Sar Piah – The Original Balestier Tau Sar Piah

They say imitation is a sign of flattery. You know you are successful when other people start emulating your idea. Just look at how the Ya Kun success story spawned numerous other air-conditioned shops also selling kopi and toast not only in Singapore but in Malaysia, too! It’s the same thing for tau sar piah. Along Balestier Road, you would find a whole stretch... Read more →

Cold Pig Trotters & Shark’s Meat – A Taste of Adventure

Teochew delicacies such as cold pork trotters (猪脚冻) and shark meat are a dying trade in Singapore. I think such novelties appeal more to the older generations, as my parents have shown me. When we chanced upon a hawker stall selling these at Chinatown complex, they ordered the dishes as though they were buying your everyday chicken rice! Eating trotters, chilled,... Read more →

Shun Tuck Cheong Fun – Fun with Cheong Fun [Closed]

If you are a business-owner struggling to stand out from a sea of competitors, what do you do? The answer is simple enough — get creative! At Shun Tuck Cheong Fun, the hawkers sure are flexing their creativity muscles to transform the plain ol’ chee cheong fun into culinary works of art. Gone are your usual steamed rice rolls in dark sauce and chili gravy.... Read more →