Yesterday we needed some curry to be placed in a bowl, as part of a food exhibit. We managed to locate a food stall nearby which sold curry. The guy dishing out the food wasn’t sure what he was allowed to do, so he checked with his lady supervisor and she billed us $1 for…
The BBC has compiled a list of ’50 things to eat before you die’. How many have you eaten? I scored 41/50. Funny how some dishes are named specifically, but others are lumped together like Thai, Chinese, Greek and Mexican food. What else should have been included on this list? I’m thinking escargot and buah…
As a Priority member of Acmabooks.com (at least for the next few months), I was invited yesterday to Moonfish Restaurant at Milennia Walk, to meet the Acma account managers and sample the restaurant’s forthcoming, new menu. The great thing was I got to invite 3 other friends along – so I did! You can start…
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…
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…
It was delicious too! Filled with curry potatoes in the middle. Mildly spicy sauces (negligible by my Peranakan standards, really).
Another Nokia 6600 pic for my readers. The Touche bottles were backlit, giving a lovely glowing effect.
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…
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…
Wall Street Cafe at Amara Hotel now has a great S$14.95 set lunch. The salmon chowder was tasty and had fresh, generous chunks of fish. We shared a pan-fried crayfish with black pepper sauce, a seafood platter in wasabe butter, and a honey-lime baked codfish, each served on a bed of raisin rice and a…