Chee cheong fun (steamed rice rolls) is a popular breakfast item in Singapore and Malaysia. This humble dish is made by steaming a mixture of rice flour and water, and turning the resultant rice sheets into rolls. While it may be one of the simplest food items you can find,...
Many of you are probably already familiar with Oasis Taiwan Porridge. For almost four decades, this restaurant occupied a standalone building beside Kallang Basin, becoming a landmark in its own right. For many families, it’s a popular gathering place. I have friends who grew up going there for family dinners...
The Tong Heng Confectionery has a long history dating back to 1920. This humble little shop in Chinatown is best-known for churning out popular Chinese pastries such as egg custard tarts (in a distinctive diamond shape) and wife cakes. But did you know that the curry puffs and char siew...
It’s a great convenience to live in a place where you have regular access to cheap and good food. I am sure many of you have visited ABC Market before, and I think you would agree that it is a treasure cove of yummies! I can practically eat here everyday...
I’m not exactly a fan of noodle dishes. But recently, a colleague introduced me to the famous Pontian Wanton Mee and I was sold! Since then, we’ve been having this colourful dish at least once a week! wanton mee is a type of Chinese dish with noodles (mee) and dumplings...
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...
I really thought I had run out of restaurants to visit at VivoCity! But this time, I found a new place to check out – Bosses, a Chinese restaurant with a secret society (黑社会) concept. From what I saw, other than the name and the fact that all wait staff...
