Champagne or beer?

Discovery Channel’s Travel & Adventure channel was showing a feature on Singapore food at noon today. Anthony Bourdain did the diplomatic thing and went to the Chinese, Malay and Indian haunts respectively. For Chinese food, he tried the Imperial Herbal restaurant, which actually was one of my favourites when I was a child (!). He…

I write about a very mixed experience dining at a so-called Italian restaurant at the Esplanade.

In my 2 months in France, I managed to check out two Michelin-rated restaurants. This one, Les Pléiades in Barbizon, was the better of the two. I’ll zoom in on my dish, which was most unusual. *Filet du canette migratoire du Canada a la sauce cranberry, puree vitelotte et bouquet de legumes printaniers* The air-flown…

So the esteemed London restaurant chain, Royal China, is coming to Raffles Hotel. The Straits Times today mentions its dim sum, which admittedly is very good – paralleled only by its excellent service*. But any Singaporean student worth his salt will tell you that the restaurant is not as famous for its lobster noodles as…

Remember that recent NY Times article on Singapore food? Well, one of our all-time favourite restaurants was featured in it, and we decided to rekindle our passion for crab bee hoon (vermicelli), kong kong (another kind of shellfish, like escargot except it’s white and chewy), scallops and kai lan (a green leafy vegetable). All with…

I have hardly any posts on cooking, but I assure my readers I can help around the kitchen. This was what we were cooking in the afternoon – fish soup. [All photos taken by iPhone] First, I chopped up carrots, celery and onions (sniff sniff), then fried them with olive oil in a large pot….