Food review: The Prime Society

Yesterday, we had at lunch Royal China, which opened recently at Raffles Hotel in Singapore. Fans of the original restaurant chain in London will be delighted to know that their dim sum is still scrumptious. However, the lobster noodle dish, so heavily promoted here, was nothing special. The quality of lobster was fine, but I…

Met up with some old Bristol friends today and we had dinner at Shunjuu at Robertson Quay. We ordered lots of robatayaki (skewered foods) and other dishes. My favourite was the tofu with century egg sauce topped with roe. As a new fan of black pig meat (best experienced so far at Tom Ton restaurants…

I haven’t written about this early enough, but fans of the fusion Japanese restaurant Bistro Cameleon should be delighted to hear that it has reopened at Robertson Walk! The only difference, say the new, empowered waitresses and chef (employee-owners, I heard), is that they now spell it properly with a ‘h’. In short, it’s “Chameleon”….

The order for lunch today, was caprice. My ingredients: 3 buffalo tomatoes 2 round blobs of mozarella cheese A cluster of basil leaves with stalks (already removed in the above photo) Black pepper Olive oil Balsamic vinegar Now I have no recipe for caprice to go by, but since I’ve seen and eaten lots of…

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….