Category: Eating
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Poppy seeds are banned?
‘There’s no more poppy seeds in any bakery in Singapore because the police will investigate… you know? You know what poppy is used for?’ So the fella behind the counter at the Orchard Towers’ Jason’s Supermarket’s Hiestand Swiss Bakery’s (hooray for Apostrophy Man!) kiosk told me when I asked for buns with poppy seeds on…
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Nosso good alluvasudden
I had previously written about how wonderful the pizza at this place was. But sadly, it seems, in a matter of months, I’ve had to write this here post about how the pizza isn’t so wonderful anymore. And neither are the people behind the counter that serve it. “Donato is very busy at his restaurant,…
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A pair of kumquats
Because Chinese New Year is nigh, my fruit of the moment is the kumquat. Why? Because it sounds like something you’d scold someone with. Which means it has a silly sounding name. Don’t agree? Well then, you’re a right kumquat! iTunes is playing an illegal copy of Wilson Pickett – Don’t Let The Green Grass…
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Please allow to use my photo
Russian Restaurants Around The World Update: Alex from Restoran.us wasn’t very happy I posted our email exchange wherein he asked to use my Flickr photo of Shashlik restaurant and wherein I agreed. So he wrote to ask me nicely to remove the email exchange, which I now have: From: restoran.us Subject: Re: Please allow to…
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This is Singapore, you have to queue
I swear this is what the door-bitch at MOS told a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of a business associate of mine who tried an excuse that went “I am wanting to entertain my business client from Hong Kong, and he’s leaving tomorrow so can you let us in?”: This…