Tag: food

  • Got milk?

    These are things you shouldn’t even have to think about, but now, you have to, because some idiot put melamine in milk. Before you go away thinking it’s okay because you’re a snob and you don’t drink milk products from China and Dutch Lady is not really your kinda brand of strawberry milk, here’s some…

  • Astonishing

    It could be simply a case of Peranakan hyperbole. Then again, there are other astonishing claims these days: Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch!

  • I will not stand for my food being censored!

    I was at the neighbourhood Cheers convenience store looking to get tempted to buy snackies when I picked up a packet of Seneca Apple Chips, turned to see the ingredients listed, in case they were made with harmful stuff like trans fat and fake apples, and saw the blurb describing the product which was marked…

  • I’d be lost without the mobile ingterneck

    When members of my family visit from far flung places, they understandably want to sample foods from far flung places within Singapore – like the best Hokkien Mee I know of. So I went and drove to Beach Road, to the last place I bought Hokkien Mee from, and to my shock and horror after…

  • Steeples

    The Price is Steeples Steeples Deli calls itself “the 1st deli in Singapore”, and says it was opened in 1981. Before that, we only ever had sandwiches at home. Nobody sold or made sandwiches in shops. No-one. Ever. It was dark days. Mothers complained and said things like “I wish you could buy a sandwich…