Category: Eating
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I’d be lost without the mobile ingterneck
When members of my family visit from far flung places, they understandably want to sample foods from far flung places within Singapore – like the best Hokkien Mee I know of. So I went and drove to Beach Road, to the last place I bought Hokkien Mee from, and to my shock and horror after…
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Contemplating potatoes
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Steeples
The Price is Steeples Steeples Deli calls itself “the 1st deli in Singapore”, and says it was opened in 1981. Before that, we only ever had sandwiches at home. Nobody sold or made sandwiches in shops. No-one. Ever. It was dark days. Mothers complained and said things like “I wish you could buy a sandwich…
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We don’t serve plain water, only the fancy kind
Maybe I can lick the dew off the leaves OK, the waiter didn’t say that, but it means the same thing. And I’ve blogged about this before. We were invited to birthday drinks on Saturday at 1 Rochester, hereinafter known as 1 Of The Places In Singapore That Will Not Serve You A Glass Of…
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Cosplay steak restaurant
“But sir, you’ve already got such a big piece of meat!” – Photo by bnittoli The Japanese love their cows. So they massage them, feed them beer and sake, call them Wagyu and then slaughter and eat them. I’m not sure where the Wagyu we have at restaurants here are from, but they are pretty…