One of the best things about Chinese New Year is the festive food. What is your favourite Chinese New Year food? Amore Bakery, an online bakery shop run by Sparklette reader, Gennie Lee, previously impressed with its Christmas brownies that not only look adorable, but taste divine. (In fact, my...
I’m a big fan of the KFC egg tarts. Even so, I can’t help but baulk when I read about what new ingredient the fast food company has added to these egg tarts for Chinese New Year. Mandarin orange! Now that’s an odd pairing. Gimmick or not, I know I...
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...
Where would you be dining 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 taste as good as they sound? Welcome to Palm Beach Seafood Restaurant. For more than half a century, the restaurant has been serving...
Local café chain, tcc the connoisseur concerto, has rolled out a special Perfect Ten high tea set to celebrate Chinese New Year and Valentine’s Day. This comes with 10 bite-sized desserts and treats that are guaranteed to please, plus a tea or coffee to warm the heart. Perfect Ten high...
Happy Lunar New Year! I hope it’s a good year ahead for your zodiacal sign. I am born in the year of the rat, and apparently it would be a year of good fortune. I don’t believe in fortune-telling or any form of astrology or that whole “it’s all written...
Just as there are 12 signs in the Western horoscope, the chinese zodiac also has 12 of its own, represented by 12 different animals. Rather than being determined by months, a person’s Chinese zodiacal sign is determined by the year he is born in. I was born in the year...
Following the popular “Christmas Tree of the Day” series, I thought it would be cute to have a similar one for Chinese New Year. I don’t care if the response is going to be lukewarm. A holiday is a holiday, and that is always a good thing. So let’s get...
my Mom is an avid collector of various collectible items. In the past, she collected the magnetic transitlink cards when they were still in use, as well as brand new phonecards. These cards are valuable only if they are maintained in their unused condition. The value of an extremely rare...
The River Hong Bao is an annual Chinese New Year event in Singapore. Over here, the area has been transformed into one thick with the lively Chinese New Year atmosphere. Red, yellow and purple little bulbs, as well as huge peach lanterns adorned every tree. A very colourful pavilion structure...
