It’s been an amazingly busy week. So busy in fact that I wasn’t able to find any time to take part in this month’s Is My Blog Burning? challenge. Of course, J over at Kuidaore created enough amazing dishes for a half dozen eager bloggers, so I doubt my lack of participation will even […]

CH says: During the summer of 1994, I spent a little over a month in Vienna, doing an intensive German language course. The school was located in the heart of the oldest and most beautiful part of the city, just steps from St Stephansplatz. In addition to being located perfectly for lunch hour and after […]

Unfortunately, I didn’t make the delicious looking cha siu pau pictured above. Fortunately, I did have the pleasure of eating it and a whole table filled with other delicious dim sum this past Sunday morning.
Waking up too lazy to make our own breakfast, S and I decided to take a short walk around our […]

At some point, when I was much younger, I stopped ordering chicken in restaurants. Chicken, the younger, sillier me rationalized, was something I cooked at home, so why order it in restaurants. Things like duck, lamb, veal, scallops, turbot… not only was I not buying these things in the local Food Emporium, even if I […]

A short news item for all Singaporean readers (and well, any others who are planning a vacation here at the end of the month). The Singapore Writers Festival is (I think for the first time) incorporating a food writers component in its programme. The Festival runs from 26 August - 4 September. Some of the […]

I love slow-cooked meats. I love how after spending several hours gently cooking away in the oven, a tough piece of meat becomes buttery soft, so soft that it falls off the bone with no more than a gentle nudge of a spoon. I love the concentration of natural flavours in a slow-cooked cut that’s […]

I’ve never been much of a baker. Baking requires precision. It requires having the patience to measure ingredients properly, which I’ve never actually had. I’ve always been one of those cooks who enjoys eyeballing his measurements. Terms like “salt to taste” were written for over-confident lazy guys like me (of course, some gals would argue […]

What a trip! We ate, we shopped (well, actually S shopped), and we ate some more. Truth be told, I took very, very few photographs. Right before we left for the airport, I decided to ditch my Nikon and only bring along my little pocket-sized Contax. S, ever-annoyed when I whip out a large professional-looking […]

I’m taking off to the SAR, leaving on a 620am (God help me!) flight tomorrow morning. S and I have booked a few restaurants already. We’ve called up some friends. And S has been saving up so she can splurge at Manolo Blahnik and Narciso Rodriguez. I’ll try and report while we’re there. But in […]

For quite some time now, I’ve been on a quest to reduce the chubbiness of my hubby. I’ll readily admit that he isn’t clinically chubby, but I’d still prefer it if he’d eat a little healthier. So whenever he shows enthusiasm for anything that is remotely good for him (you’ll notice that his usual gustatory […]