Category: Eating
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Christmas gift ideas: give a pair
We were getting last-minute grocery for dinner at Cold Storage Takashimaya when we saw outside the cashier’s, a stall selling Crescendo flavoured olive oils and aged balsamic vinegars. The company’s representative in Singapore has stalls like this all over town, but for some reason, we stopped for the first time, for a sampler. Unlike many…
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Take down a musical instrument
One of my favourite poems and one which I’ve quoted here again and again is by Jalaluddin Rumi: Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument. Let the beauty we Love be what we do. There are…
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40 and a day
I was hoping to ease into my 40s, with no fanfare and no celebration, just a little acknowledgement that I’m heading towards new frontiers. So it was good that the day was spent with my wife and son, with a hearty meal at Sanur that was just as good as it was back when my…
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The Taiwanese food’s better here
There is an upside to taking your Taiwanese mother-in-law to a Taiwanese restaurant, and it is that she will prove beyond all doubt that that restaurant is not authentic, by transporting her entire kitchen to your apartment built for two people, staff it with her domestic helpers and enlist yours to the same cause, and…
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Second month confinement