Category: Eating
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Car park warden warning system
I was very amused (and thankful) yesterday to discover that Mellben Seafood Restaurant has a “carpark warden warning system”. When your friendly neighbourhood carpark warden turns up to issue fines at the HDB carpark, a designated staff member blows a long blast on a whistle that will get almost everyone startled and on their feet.…
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Remove the “G” from Stuart Anderson’s Black Angus Steakhouse
I wasn’t going to blog about this, but I saw Tuesday’s ST headline about bad service and realised that bad service was a national epidemic, and therefore had to be talked about, the same way we talked about SARS, and swine flu. Because talking about it spreads awareness, and when you’re aware, you’re less likely…
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Don’t eat endangered animals this Chinese New Year
Give shark’s fin a miss – you’re really eating chicken stock and cartilage anyway. Don’t listen to people who say all those stories about fishermen cruelly slicing off fins and dumping the shark back in the sea are false. You tell me, what do they really do with the rest of the shark? (OK, fish…
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Southern Italy is in Bukit Timah
Somewhere on the Amalfi Coast, some schoolchildren are sitting on the floor because the bench they used to sit on was used to hold the massive serving of antipasto we had last night at La Braceria Pizza & Grill. As far as Italian restaurants are concerned, we’ve lucked out with two good locations in a…
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Vegetarian food can taste this good
Once in a while I hanker for a steak, done medium-rare, and I used to think I wouldn’t survive a day without meat. I also have a sensitive stomach, about which Naomi loves to talk with some glee to her friends and relatives. We read somewhere awhile ago about ‘eating for your blood type’, and…