Happy Mid-Autumn Festival, everyone! May your day be filled with lots of yummilicious mooncakes, colourful lanterns and happy family reunions! Have a great one!
As promised, here’s the last of my 3-parter series on unique mooncakes. You’ve seen champagne truffle mooncakes as well as rainbow-coloured ones. Now here are some with really interesting shapes besides the conventional round ones! Credit In a collaboration with Starbucks, Nokia released a set of 4 mooncakes, modelled after...
The commonest mooncakes that we see during the Mid-Autumn Festival are typically round or square in shape, with either a baked brown crust or snow-skin exterior. Then in 1994, Raffles Hotel created the innovative and highly sought after champagne truffle mooncakes. That spawned a new line of exciting modern mooncakes!...
The Mid-Autumn Festival, or Moon Festival if you prefer, is here again! Of course, what’s Moon Festival without mooncakes right? Therefore over the next 3 days, I would be featuring some unique and yummilicious mooncakes. We’ll start off with my most favourite mooncakes of all – champagne truffle and ganache...
I recently paid a long overdue visit to the Tiong Bahru Market and Food Centre. After its major revamp last year, the place appears to be much cleaner and more well-ventilated than before. There’s even an alfresco area where people dine under the shade of resort-style umbrellas. This food centre...
At Sunset Way, a serene neighbourhood in Clementi, a cluster of restaurants quietly opened recently. And already, the area has been compared to the likes of Holland Village. That alone got me curious enough to go check it out. What sets Sunset Way apart from other dining enclaves such as...
Ever since my virgin blood donation two years ago, I had been telling myself to do it every 3 months (that’s the safe window period between two blood donations). But each time I just kept pushing it off, until the mobile donation drive showed up right at my workplace today!...
A friend and I were at Plaza Singapura scouring for a dining spot. There were plenty of options. Within the shopping mall there’s already The Manhattan Fish Market, ichiban sushi, indonesian BBQ at kopitiam and many more. And of course there’s Giraffe Bar across the road at Istana Park. I...
Oooh… Look at these pretty young things! They are so beautiful they make me want to cry! Sabine rath is a very talented photographer. She takes wonderful pictures of her cats and really captures their innocence. I spent a good couple of hours going through every single photograph in her...
A friend recently asked me, “Since you dine out all the time, do you review every single eatery that you visit?” The answer is no. There would simply be too many pictures to take and too many posts to write! The rule of thumb I follow to decide if the...