Now that Mid-Autumn Festival 2012 is just around the corner, it’s time to get busy with the sampling of various mooncake combinations from restaurants around town. With so many different ingredients, colours, flavours and even scents, mooncakes can almost be a separate class of food by itself these days! Tip:...
The Peony Jade restaurants have rolled out a range of gorgeous snowskin mooncakes for Mid-autumn Festival. When it comes to mooncakes, you usually focus more on the flavours rather than how the mooncakes actually look. As much as we love the uniquely-shaped mooncakes from The Fullerton, we must admit that...
Just like its popular mooncake cousin that sees a variety of innovative flavours at Mid-Autumn Festival, the humble rice dumpling is increasingly manifesting with a range of bold fillings. For Dumpling Festival 2011, Peony Jade Restaurant at Keppel Club has created a selection of rice dumplings, including a quartet of...
I love Chinese New Year. What’s not to like? It’s that time of the year when relatives – some even travel across the world – get together for a meal. There are good food like bak kwa (pork jerky), fun festivities such as the tossing of yusheng (raw fish salad)...
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...
