Had a lovely brunch at Oriole with K and PG. Scrambled eggs on toast. Scones with clotted cream and jam. A Mexican platter of eggs, chorizo and tortillas. One round of prosecco and coffee to round it all up. K ordered
Dining Out: Brunch @ Oriole

Had a lovely brunch at Oriole with K and PG. Scrambled eggs on toast. Scones with clotted cream and jam. A Mexican platter of eggs, chorizo and tortillas. One round of prosecco and coffee to round it all up. K ordered
Made blueberry muffins today using this recipe. I would have preferred them a little less sweet. I like to eat my muffins warm, with a tab of cold butter and coffee.
OH. SO. YUMMY. After resting the pumpkin cake (with heaps of Chinese mushrooms and pork) in the fridge for one night, I took it out this morning, sliced a wedge and pan-fried the slices in a sizzling hot pan till
Mom came over to my place today to hand down some of her recipes – Chinese steamed pumpkin cake and rempah. The problem is that she doesn’t have exact measurements of the ingredients, but arbitrary estimates that she pulls out
Drove out for lunch with a friend to Syed Alwi for Teochew kway teow mee and a bowl of fish dumplings. As usual, I got lost and went here, there and all over before I found the place (I can
^Boon Tong Kee Kway Chap at Zion Road Food Centre. I really overdid it today. Kickass nonya laksa for lunch and artery-clogging kway chap for dinner. All on the same day. Eversince I came back from Korea, I lost my
It’s Winter Solstice. Tangyuan time. I love tangyuan, especially the ones with peanut and sesame filling. But what I love even better than tangyuan is the ginger soup that the tangyuan is usually served with. Ginger soup – I made
*moans….* I miss drinking this brand of banana-flavoured milk from Korea. I didn’t realise the Koreans were big on banana milk. If I find this milk in Singapore, I’m going to stock my fridge with many, many, many bottles…! I
Home-made mee soto! We had tanghoon instead of the usual yellow noodles or beehoon. I didn’t make it of course. C’s domestic helper cooked the soup from scratch. It is super tasty, especially when mixed with sambal chili. I like that the
^ Photo from Happy Mize Travel I came across this restaurant while surfing the Internet for Western restaurants to feed TBH when we are in Jeju. Any Korean drama addict would be able to recognize this restaurant. I saw it
My friend took this photo with his iPhone 4. I’m impressed with the quality of the photo – it’s pretty sharp for a phone camera. The few of us had our usual monthly dinner – Korean BBQ at Jangshou –
I used to dread going west in the general direction of NTU – Tuas/Jurong West. It is so ULU and there is nothing there to do. Maybe it is age or maybe it is a different perspective that comes with aging
Before Gardenia invaded our lives, we bought bread which costs $0.70 a loaf from the local confectionary or sold by an uncle who hawked the same kind of bread in his mini-van. In primary school, I ate two slices of