It’s my birthday today! One of the gifts I received is this: Royce’ Nama chocolate! If you have ever tasted this chocolate before, you would know how truly awesome it is. Credit My first experience with Royce’ was in ’06, when a friend specially couriered a small unassuming “care package”...
Along the way to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, I picked up some of these cute little pastry snacks that are filled with kaya (creamy coconut jam) and other types of paste. These are probably the easiest things to bake and most delightful things to pop in your mouth as a yummy...
Walking around for hours in the hot, hot Cambodian heat really takes it out of ya! On our way back from the great temples of Angkor, we stopped by for some refreshing fruity smoothies at café puka puka. The sunny-looking air-conditioned café sure is happiness-inducing. It’s the cheeriest place I...
Recently when I heard that someone at work was ordering Madeleine’s original Portuguese egg tarts in bulk, I wasted no time in placing an order. It spared me from making the long journey to their tanjong katong location. And I got to bring home two full boxes of warm, custardy...
Remember Seventh Heaven? Yup, that’s the ice cream parlour that serves the one-of-a-kind liquor ice cream we so love. Yum! Great news: they have created four new flavours just for Christmas! Doesn’t Christmas seem much more fun with ice cream and alcohol? The four flavours are: cranberry (with vodka) whiter...
Over the past couple of years ice cream cafés have begun popping up in Singapore and entering our hearts. Many double as ice creameries, with ice cream that is freshly made in-house. It’s always fun when creativity muscles are flexed as each one comes up with their own unique flavours....
In the mood for Teochew kueh (Chinese pastry)? Get it all at Kuehs and Snacks, a bakery shop along Bukit Merah Lane near the Alexandra Village food centre. While its English name is descriptive enough, I personally prefer the shop’s endearing Chinese name, which translates to “Aunts’ and Grannies’ Teochew...
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...
Hello food lovers, fellow foodie bloggers in Kyoto would like to find out how you feel! Kyoto Foodie is a foodie blog that brings the culinary culture of Kyoto to the rest of the world. This time, they are doing it quite literally! Simply by submitting your great ideas on...
While passing through a mall recently, I stopped by a Christmas bazaar. These days anything Christmasy would stop me in my tracks. Whether it is Christmas decor, Christmas tree ornaments, or Christmas yummies, I must spend at least ten minutes browsing through it all. As it turned out, among all...
