(Singapore) – My all-time favorite flatmates back in 2006 introduced me to a Japanese buffet restaurant at Suntec City Mall when I was still a newbie in the Singapore world of multi-cultural cuisines. 4 years later, here I am, going back to indulge in a variety of an all-Japanese buffet spread. The sushi is nice and well crafted, not like the others that I have tried where the rice easily falls off when you pick it up with your chopsticks! My ever favorite is of course – California Maki! Tempura is also endless and tasty, not too salty. The Teppanyaki stall is also good, I tried beef and salmon. There…
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Food For Thought
(Singapore) – It was a rainy Friday lunch break and one of our colleagues suggested a place for our usual Friday lunch outs 2 blocks away from our office – Food For Thought. The place has a nice, relaxing and comforting atmosphere and for some reasons, it will make you feel light and easy when you enter. Once we got seated, we immediately realized why. Their place mats were printed with the following texts: 1. Support Clean Water 2. Feed Good Food 3. Help End Poverty 4. Educate the People 5. Encourage Good Acts Also found on the wall – a verse from the Bible, Ecclesiastes 3:13 Then we were…
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Choose your heat at Nando’s
(Singapore) – After getting off work, my cousin and I met up at Bugis Junction to have dinner at Nando’s, a recently opened franchise serving Portuguese-style flame grilled chicken or often called “Peri-peri” chicken. We tried it first in Kuala Lumpur and the memory of the delectable flavor of herbs and spices never left us. Thus we were both ecstatic when we learned that it finally dropped it’s anchors in Singapore. If you love chicken and spicy food, then you’re in for a treat! Just a few facts about Peri-peri according to Nando’s website (excerpts from www.nandos.com.sg): “Not only is it a treat for your taste buds, Peri-peri is also…
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Feeling Filipino at Fely J’s
(Manila) – For my Mom’s birthday, we had dinner at Fely J’s situated at the 2nd floor of one Manila’s posh malls – Greenbelt 5. Fely J’s is serving Filipino cuisine which I am craving for after 4 long months of not being able to visit home. The ambiance is good, fit for family get together as they have tables good enough to accommodate 8 of us. Service is also good as the waiters and waitresses are attentive to diners’ needs. Food is okay but I cannot say that it is excellent compared to others serving the same cuisine. It’s just that it lacks a differentiating factor for me to…
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Nasi Briyani at Geylang Serai
(Singapore) – In preparation for my friend’s baby shower, I decided to tag along her husband Chef Vergel for ingredient-hunting as he is tasked to prepare our dinner – as always! We went to a popular wet market place in Singapore called Geylang Serai Market and Food Center in its new location which renovated in the later half of 2009. He can’t stop talking about a very good Nasi Briyani place in the past so finally, I decided to try it out! “Geylang Briyani Store” is located at the 2nd floor and is famous for its Nasi Briyani Kambing (or mutton with briyani rice) and Nasi Briyani Ayamassignment writing servicestrong>…
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Dimsum Brunch at The Cathay Restaurant
(Singapore) – During my husband’s quick visit (how quick? 18 hours!) here in Singapore, I needed to take him to a restaurant my boss introduced to me during one of our team lunches – The Cathay Restaurant. According to my Singaporean boss, it is a restaurant which served Chinese Cuisine back in the olden days (1950s) but it was eventually closed due to a decline in popularity attributed to competition. At present, it was somehow revived and is still situated at it’s original location – now at level 2, the building was renovated with a cineplex and retail shops. The restaurant has a nostalgic, Chinese restaurant feel. It has illustrations…
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Friday at Friday’s
(Singapore) – A quick after-office dinner at T.G.I.Friday’s (food description courtesy of www.fridays.com.sg),
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Go Healthy at Healthy Shabu-Shabu
(Manila) – After doing my last minute shopping in Robinson’s Galleria with my “Ating” (my eldest sister), we called in the rest of the gang, her husband, my husband and my youngest sister to have dinner for the last time before I head back to Singapore. I got a bit shocked as for the first time, Ating wanted us to have shabu-shabu for dinner! She said she wanted to try out something healthy this time, to get me away from my favorite fried food from Kentucky Fried Chicken and Jollibee (lotsa calories but very yummy!) I didn’t know that we had shabu-shabu in Manila. Off we went, straight to a…
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Home for Easter! : Mobile Snapshots
(Manila) – As soon as I luckily booked that cheap Singapore Airlines flight (yes, cheaper than my fave budget carriers!) all I can think about is – aside from seeing my family of course – FOOD! Living in a foreign country makes you really excited about gastronomic delights from home sweet home. Plane landed in the afternoon, even if I had my free meal aboard, I kept on thinking, where will my sisters and husband take me for dinner this time? Last time I went home was Christmastime, which means 3 months long without authentic, delicious and mouth-watering Filipino cuisine!
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Hot Hot Hot – NOT!!! Chili’s invades Singapore!
(Singapore) – Once in Manila, now in Singapore! Seems like it has been stalking me as I have never eaten in the Manila resto. Somehow it managed to find me here in Singapore! I have not tried Chili’s in Manila before – not for any reason but because all along I thought it only serves hot hot hot food as the name implies. Well, fortunately, for not-too-much-spicy lovers like me, I managed to step into the Mexican ambience that is Chili’s Singapore!
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Ishi Mura – A Japanese Food Court
(Singapore) – For lunch breaks, we tend to go to the nearest place in our office – a hawker-style food court which serves local Singaporean cuisine. Once in a while, our palates get tired of tasting the same dish everyday! One of our new team mates introduced us to a nearby food court. It’s not an ordinary food court but a Japanese themed Food Court!
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Just curious… Xtremely Espresso
(Singapore) – Nothing much to say, but just wanted to check with the readers, by any chance, have you encountered an enormously sized pizza ever? My husband and I did. Size is approximately my diameter + my husband’s haha!
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Arigatou Gozaimasu for Pasta De Waraku
(Singapore) – Teriyakidon, Katsudon, Oyakudon, California Maki, Sushi – these delectable delights come into mind when you crave for Japanese cuisine. Never have we thought that there’s such a thing as a Japanese Casual Pasta & Café Restaurant where they serve superb thinly-thin crust pizza filled with cheese and the works! They also have creamy wafu sauce-based pasta which will make your mouth water!
