Category: Eating

  • Food Made With Love

    The lasting impression I got from Saturday’s Singapore Memory Project Food Trail was the passion of the local food vendors we visited. Stories of craftsmanship being passed down from generation to generation are becoming scarce in this increasingly mall and condo dominated city, and the video clips we shot of the food and their makers…

  • SQ’s Economy Rice Isn’t The Worst

    Two weeks ago I said my Singapore Airline’s meal “was about as good as economy rice, only smaller”. Well, I had SAF cookhouse-standard “stir-fried” chicken and rice on our Cathay Pacific flight yesterday afternoon:

  • Chinese Christmas

    It has been a mad year and a bit, and last night I was commenting to Naomi that I feel as if I’ve been run off my feet. It could have been tiredness from work. It could also have been the beers and wine I took trying to ameliorate the tiredness. I decided this week…

  • It would be hell if the restaurants weren’t so good

    Naomi and I hadn’t spent enough time looking through what’s on offer at the Marina Bay Sands, so we were very excited to discover that ‘celebrity chefs’ had set up shop in the massive casino complex. There’s Mario Batali, Tetsuya Wakuda, Hide Yamamoto, and Singapore’s own drink-driving Justin Quek amongst several others. And we only…

  • Lib lung and prosper

    This evening we took a break from eating junk food and took Naomi’s visiting cousin out to a chili crab dinner at Long Beach Dempsey. Good thing we got there early, because a little after we got there, a queue formed with several dozen families, tired from visiting and being visited, looking to get a…