Category: Eating
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Don’t say no, just sago
Raw sago pearls I was reading up on sago, and telling myself, ‘Wah, this nifty little palm product makes so many different types of dessert across so many countries and cultures, so it’s got to be hailed as a truly pan-Asian foodstuff’. Good thing it was only two seconds later that I realised ‘Fuck lah,…
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TIGER TALES – Nov 2005
RESTAURANTS – HOTELS – BARS [ Singapore, Hanoi, Manila ] SINGAPORE 
The “problem†with eating out in Singapore is that you’re impossibly spoilt for choice. Anything from Hunan cuisine to Yemeni grills can be found on this island. Read more at TIGER TALES Technorati Tags: food, pizzadadonato, Singapore, tigerairways
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TODAY: Food so good you’ll write home about it
… or at least write about it from the comfort of home, as Singaporeans get gastronomical in their blogs DON’T know where to dine? Check bloggers’ reviews. I recently came across a guide to Singapore food in the Australian newspaper, The Age (www.theage.com.au) which asserted: “Singaporeans love eating. Anything, at any time. “To get the…
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The ground is not sweet
The coffee shop auntie and her colleagues at the Imperial Cafe & Pub on McCallum Street were busy trying to entice pedestrians to sit down under one of the makeshift umbrellas and have a cup of coffee or a nasi lemak. Her frown unwavering, one of the coffee shop aunties mutters in a monotone, “Hallo…
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Very good to go: Pizza from a hole in the wall
An Italian fella told me once, “Da topping issa da meansa by which you eata da crust”. Donato Mazzola’s doing something right. He’s got newspaper clippings calling his pizza joint ‘the attack of the killer pizzas’, and his pizza crusts don’t need any means to eat except your hands and mouth, really. But while we’re…