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Wagyu has almost become the extravagant default if you need some quality beef for a Japanese grill experience. How about Tokachi Beef? Never tried it? Then you won’t know what you are missing out. I was at Tajimaya, a Japanese charcoal grill Yakiniku restaurant at Vivocity, and was hugely intrigued about their Hokkaido Tokachi Beef [...]

Once in a while, you get a food place that people will talk about. Folks Collective is that restaurant. The power of the word-of-mouth, with friends leaving facebook wall messages telling me you MUST TRY Folks Collective. Folks Collective – a Thai fusion restaurant in the middle of CBD at China Square Central, selling set [...]

During secondary school I took my first food related workshop with SHATEC – a food etiquette course which included a set-lunch. It was then when I learnt where to place my napkin, which fork and spoon to use, which glass to drink from. Am I right to say many diners do not know the right [...]

A friend of mine avoids the hipsters’ area. To name a few – Tiong Bahru, Ann Siang, Duxton, and Keong Saik. To quote her, it’s where “pretentious people hang out and drink”. To each her own. Whether is a hipster/wannabe/fashionable/trendy area, it’s undeniable that Keong Saik is that one street which transformed from a former [...]

Never an afternoon tea person, but I could really learn to enjoy it. A familiar practice of the colonial days, afternoon tea was started by the wealthy class in England, and has taken a more popular form in Singapore made available in many hotels and tea houses. I digress and I ask, who goes for [...]

Don’t get me wrong. I am all for upping the status of Singapore street side food, making it more ‘atas’ and upmarket. While many are willing to pay bigger bucks for easier-to-prepare food, such as burgers and pastas, the same cannot be said local food such as satays and Hokkien mee – which can be [...]

KHA has a new chef. And all the difference it makes. Seriously, my main lament against Thai food in Singapore is not because it is not delicious, but that it is all watered and muted down – losing that main spirit of Thai cuisine. Thai food loves to be intense, perhaps the only type of [...]

Sicilian cuisine has always been unfamiliar ground to me. My main knowledge it that while it is predominantly Italian, it also has Spanish, Greek and Arab influences because Sicily only became part of Italy in 1860. Gattopardo Italian Restaurant & Pizzabar at Hotel Fort Canning is one place to appreciate authentic Sicilian cuisine to fuller [...]

What do you look for in a Japanese fine dining restaurant? Really nothing short of brilliant – Quality cuisine, freshness and skills, attention to details, premium service experience, and that unspeakable X-factor. EZOCA at Quayside Isle has almost all of that, especially when it comes to authenticness. As what EZOCA’s owner Katsutaka Kobayashi says, “Many [...]

Does Singapore need another coffee joint? The answer apparantly is YES. This new kid on a block is not exactly a stranger to the café scene as owner Andrew Lek is former barista from Strangers’ Reunion. Department of Caffeine, otherwise known as D.O.C, took over the defunct Broadway Café at Duxton Hill and upped its [...]