Christmas is a great time to feast, have a party and be merry with loved ones! Every Christmas, the culinary teams at various hotels and restaurants come up with creative cakes and festive favourites to tempt our palates. Wondering what to give your loved ones this Christmas? Here’s a round-up...
Dumpling Festival is just around the corner. Have you indulged in your favourite leaf-wrapped rice treat yet? Like its Chinese cousin – the mooncake, the rice dumpling makes a special appearance during this time of the year in various flavours and forms. While some of us go for the traditional...
The Dragon Boat Festival – better known to most simply as the “dumpling festival” – is arriving very soon on the 5th day of the 5th lunar month. I love my rice dumplings and look forward to enjoying traditional Nyonya dumplings every year. Apart from the conventional rice dumplings, there’s...
Having met the stringent requirements, Asian Market Café at Fairmont Singapore is now halal certified. During the month of Ramadan, the restaurant rolls out the authentic flavours of the Middle East combined with traditional Malay cuisine, boasting an extensive spread including pan-Asian cuisines and local favourites with live cooking stations,...
After being wowed by the rice dumplings from Szechuan Court, Fairmont Singapore, I was really looking forward to trying their mooncakes. Those dumplings had been the best we have had during the Dragon Boat Festival. Would the mooncakes be as impressive? Hotels and restaurants usually make both snowskin and baked...
I have just been Kung Pow-wowed, and that’s putting it mildly. If you would like to treat yourself to some seriously good dumplings this Dragon Boat Festival, look no further than Fairmont Singapore‘s lot of wholesome dumplings. Made of glutinous rice and wrapped in bamboo leaves, these sticky delights from...
In the Chinese tradition, there is a seven-coloured dish that is to be eaten on the seventh day of Chinese New Year, also known as Lunar New Year or Spring Festival. In Singapore, this dish is presented as a colourful salad with raw fish slices called yusheng. Due to the...
Update: Here’s the compilation of the mooncakes in Singapore for 2010. It’s mooncake season! Many families, mine included, are busy checking out catalogues and shopping for mooncakes. The mooncakes these days come in a dazzling array of colours, flavours, shapes and sizes. Finding the best one to enjoy at home...
