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« Previous EntriesDallas Restaurant & Bar: Food to make you go “Yee-har!”
Thursday, November 12th, 2009Daniel’s bro loves his food as much as Daniel, and invited us to try out this restaurant/bar at Boat Quay near his workplace awhile back. Obviously a place that makes its moolah from the bustling bar scene, we fought through the crowd on the ground floor and entered the worryingly empty restaurant area on the [...]
Review: Oomphatico’s
Sunday, July 19th, 2009What initially drew me to this little cafe tucked in among shops in Tanglin Mall was its eclectic style. The moment you step in, you’d either instantly love the kitschy and mismatched furniture or hate it with a vengence. The menu is similarly odd, with ordinary-sounding pasta vongole listed alongside pork belly on a vindaloo [...]
Fish and Chips at The Queen And Mangosteen
Sunday, May 24th, 2009I’m often at Vivocity as the company that I work for has a store at the huge-ass mall.
So one Saturday a colleague and I popped over to The Queen and Mangosteen (run by the good folks at Archipelagos so you can expect decent beer as well) on the mall’s first floor after an event for [...]
New York: The Home of Cheesecake
Saturday, March 28th, 2009I was in New York a week back, and over the course of four days, subsisted on oversized American portions. From large bowls of Italian pappardelle to my favourite US fast food joint Chipotle Mexican Grill for a burrito fix, the meal I crown “Most damaging to one’s figure” has got to be the dinner [...]
Basilico: Food An Italian Mama Would Be Proud Of
Saturday, February 21st, 2009Esther and I have been very impressed with Basilico at the Regent Hotel ever since our first visit some months back. However, the pictures we took during the first time turned out really poor so I didn’t bother to blog about it. When we went back again this afternoon with our friend Jen in tow [...]
London: Ducks Under the London Bridge
Monday, December 1st, 2008Everyone who returns from London comes back raving about the duck. Not these (whom I photographed innocently frolicking at Hyde Park, unaware of their fate…muahaha).
But this.
While there are many Chinese restaurants around Bayswater, my colleague – a frequent visitor to London – steered us towards a very crowded Gold Mine, claiming it serves the best [...]
Ho Chi Minh: A French Delight!
Sunday, October 26th, 2008I’ve never been a fan of Vietnamese cuisine – those plates of spring onions, mint leaves, bean sprouts and other veggies accompanying every dish have always put a meat-etarian like myself off. Beef though, is my favourite meat, so when I arrived in Ho Chi Minh, all I could think of was trying their famous [...]
Melbourne: La Porchetta
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008Whenever we’re in Melbourne, there’s one place my brother and I always hit for pizza and pasta. If you’ve ever been to La Porchetta’s, you’ll know it for its great value-for-money and down-to-earth Italian fare. When I was studying here, we used to go there almost every Friday weekend after church cell group (strangely enough [...]
This Is What I Call A Steak
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008Yup, Esther ordered this whopping hunk of meat known as Mega Cut Natural Prime Rib from Hogsbreath Cafe (we went to the outlet in Dandenong, Australia). Extremely tender and flavourful, this ranks as THE CHOICE for carnivores (compare the size of the meat to the corn-cob). Thanks to cousin Richie for picking up the tab!
Now [...]
Chili Crab for Valentine’s Day!
Saturday, February 16th, 2008Aiyoh, Esther and I are already married.
There’s no real need to look all prim and proper to impress one another like on a first date, so Esther and I choose to eat chili crab – with our hands, no less – for Valentine’s Day. Which we, for practical reasons of course, celebrated on the 16th [...]