Eversince YH taught me how to cook this porridge years ago, I have not stopped making it. We love eating this cabbage-carrot porridge, especially on a cool, rainy day. Like today. The stock is made using a handful of local anchovies and
Due to the iffy weather, we abandoned plans to go for an early morning walk at Hortpark and headed to Oriole Cafe and Bar at the Pan Pacific Serviced Suites for brunch. The cloudy weather today was perfect for an alfresco brunch. I love
Growing up in a Hainanese home, we ate chicken rice very often for meals. It is family tradition for us to eat chicken rice balls instead of rice. I swear that chicken rice balls taste so much better than eating rice.
I felt like eating butter cookies today and decided to bake sablés, a French shortbread cookie. Butter. Shortbread. Cookie. Coffee. AWWWW. ^ Sablés are NOT supposed to look like that! My cookies turned out looking completely blah. Mis-shapened when they are supposed to
We had steamed pomfret for dinner last night. Today, I had Japanese sashimi and unagi for lunch followed by Korean hwe dup (a cold, spicy sashimi salad) and spicy pollack stew for dinner. Fish overload. Tonight, we had dinner at Bukang Tuna, a Japanese-style
I cannot decide if I like bak chor mee (with a bigger serving of pig’s liver and additional vinegar) or mee pok tah better. When I was in college (again…!), I used to go to this kopitiam called Soy Eu Tua
The two French words that I learnt for the week are poulet rôti, or roast chicken. (I am only aiming to know enough words to read a menu that is written in French.) I have been roasting chicken quite frequently during the
My colleague told me that Mirabelle’s chocolate croissants are very good. Since we were in town, we swung by this little bakery at 27 Mackenzie Road, to pick up some for ourselves. I visited this bakery once before but didn’t pick up any croissants; bought
Spicy wings and a chilli dog, all washed down with a Pink Killer (a delicious Belgian grapefruit beer). HAPPINESS. Have been eating their chilli dog since my undergraduate days. Then, it was washed down with a big mug of guava juice,
I have been having regular cravings for kimchi jigae eversince I watched the movie Le Grand Chef: The Battle of the Kimchi. Yawn. I thought this movie is nowhere as good as the previous one, in terms of storyline, casting and
Wenchang chicken rice. I haven’t figured out whether Hainanese chicken rice is a Singapore invention or whether it originated from Wenchang, Hainan Island. (Wenchang is the city where my grandfather was born in.) My grandparents say it is the former. Whatever is
…..and the fridge has only tomatoes, celery and nothing else (not even eggs)….! Looking at the plate set before him, TBH mutters that he is reminded of cattle grazing in Bhutan, eating nothing but grass and hay. (I am quite sure pasta
My idea of a perfect breakfast is a glass of freshly squeezed juice, a plate of fresh fruit with yoghurt, a bowl of muesli or cereal with milk, a pot of coffee and a stack of blueberry pancakes with butter and