Tag: Christmas

  • Last Minute Christmas Gift Ideas #2: A Great Singapore Novel

    OK, this one’s too easy – you just point your friends to the link on iTunes to download the latest from Singapore’s best-selling novelist. Really good if you’re looking to send someone living overseas something for Christmas, and especially when you’re looking for something really Singaporean. Download it here. Follow on Facebook.

  • Last Minute Christmas Gift Ideas #1: Ang Ku Kueh

    A photo posted by Benjamin "Mr Miyagi" Lee (@miyagisan) on Dec 12, 2014 at 7:20pm PST The colors make you want to sing Christmas songs, only you can’t if you stuff one of these in your mouth. They are by far the best roasted peanut filled Ang Ku Kuehs ever. Buy a dozen and put…

  • It’s Chap Goh Meh, but here’s a Christmas story

    While workshopping Kumar’s show last week, Selena Tan brought up this gem of information on how the Japanese celebrate Christmas. I would’ve teased Naomi for not knowing this Japanese tradition but a) she doesn’t take too kindly to criticism about her lack of Japanese knowledge, b) it is a rather offbeat kind of tradition. Before…

  • Shanghai winter wonderland

    This afternoon, Shanghai threw us a welcome blanket of the heaviest snowfall I’ve seen in years. Much as we’d like to step back outside and play in the mush, Kai’s fast asleep on my chest, and Naomi’s ‘resting her eyes’ in the bedroom. And probably for the first time since Naomi’s brother’s passing, this town…

  • Useful Christmas Gifts #6: Nespresso Christmas Variations

    If you wanted to buy someone a Nespresso machine (wah, so generous, can I be your friend?), but they already have one, you could, this festive season, buy them a couple of tubes of the limited edition Christmas variations. This is especially good if you’re always bumming Nespresso off your friends when they invite you…