Category: Eating
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Still made by hand, but sold out like a business
A couple of weeks ago, we decided to have lunch at the Raffles City branch of The Handburger. The previous times we ate there, they hadn’t gotten their “brand new look” yet, and we liked their burgers enough to eat there several times. So we had really high hopes for a tasty burger lunch, but…
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Kick-ass show coming up
We open on Sep 23, which is smack just before the F1 weekend. We couldn’t get a mini F1 kart on the show, so we’re making do with a mini racing motorcycle for Hossan to ride on stage. And no, we’re not attempting to outdo Mediacorp’s President’s Scar Charity. It’s just over a week to…
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At La Petite Cuisine with le petite canard
Four years have passed since Naomi and I first dined at La Cuisine – when she was still my fiance – and I had a chuckle reading that blog post about it. Neither of us smoke any more, the maitre’d has since mellowed, and the restaurant itself has since transformed itself into a much more…
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Eat fish will die ah? Eat this one and you might
Blood still boiling from the discovery of yesterday’s Razor TV coverage of the same restaurant buying and serving giant grouper that CNA talked about last month, Naomi did a little research and found that not only is this big fish a vulnerable species, it is also likely to be poisonous as its flesh contains a…
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Channel Newsasia makes a meal of a vulnerable species of fish
First published on greenkampong.com Our very own Channel Newsasia ignores the fact that the Giant Garoupa or Queensland Grouper was put on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species in 2006, and instead celebrates the story of a restaurateur who bought one this week and is selling it to customers at $20 per 200g. via Channel…