Tag: Eating to death
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No detectable Vitamin C in Ribena
An NZ court has found GlaxoSmithKline guilty of misleading advertising because there’s actually no detectable vitamin C in Ribena. But in Singapore, the AVA has certified that local Ribena Berries aren’t just cannibals, they’ve also been ‘certified rich in vitamin C‘.
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Separate pots
Today’s Special: Melting Pot I’m thinking that if we must remain cosmopolitan, then we’d better do away with the damn Hua Yu Cool campaigns, or at least, match that with Bahasa Bagus and Tamil Terrific campaigns. Else we’re quite damned to becoming a mostly Chinese chauvinistic society with no respect for our cosmopolitan heritage. I…
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Eating well
I’ve decided to ask some of my friends to come over for dinner more often instead of ‘infecting the heartland with their idiosyncrasies‘. I believe I’m quite a handy cook, and tonight, I made these dishes: Mr Miyagi’s Anyhowly Dinner Menu: Bruschetta ala Saw How It Was Made The Other Day On The Telly Salad…
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Painting flavours
There’s a little Japanese restaurant on Sentosa whose name is an institution in Singapore, and we were fortunate enough to be invited there to eat ourselves to death last Saturday night. It was by far the best Japanese food I have ever tasted in my life. I know Japanese food is supposed to be delicate…
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Fake fakes
Some of the fake fur used in clothing isn’t synthetic, and actually contains dog hair. “Americans don’t want Lassie turned into a fur coat,” Moran said. “In the US, we treat cats and dogs as pets, not trimmings for the latest fashion wear.” Apparently most of the fake fakes come from China, which isn’t really…