Full Of Luck Club – Hipster Bao and Cantonese Food Bar At Holland Village
Feature - Review, Food - Chinese, Singapore - West
May 22, 2016
Hong Kong has a few funky modern Chinese restaurant and bars which do well – Little Bao and Ho Lee Fook at Central come to mind. Somehow they just got the whole package. It is not just about the food anything, but the vibes, the surroundings, the décor, the cool clientele. (And Little Bao has ultra charismatic May Chow.) Singapore has a few of these ‘progressive Chinese restaurants’ – the defunct MAD Modern Asian Diner by Dick Lee, the closed LÈ Restaurant and Asian Tapas Bar, Lokkee and Chop Suey. Emm…. From a marketing angle, it is challenging to......
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Westgate – 10 Must-Try Restaurants and Cafes For You To Go West!
Go West, this is what we’re gonna do, because there are many exciting choices for foodies and shopaholics. Do you know that many popular restaurants have actually chosen to open their first branch outside the city at Westgate? That includes Yoogane, PAUL, Nara Thai Cuisine, Zaffron Kitchen, K.Cook Korean...
Yoogane Singapore – 8 To Try Korean Dishes At Westgate & Bugis To Satisfy Your Korean Food Cravings
If you are having Descendants of The Sun withdrawal, a wholesome hearty Korean meal can do the trick. So my #DOTSgang went to Yoogane (요가네 pronounced yoo-ga-nay) to try out the Galbi Jeongol dish, and had our mad cravings satisfied. By the way, Yoogane Singapore has just celebrated its...
NICEDAY – Refreshing Taiwanese Desserts & Eggette At The Revamped Tiong Bahru Plaza
No, this is not Korean Bingsu, but a Taiwanese style “Milky Snow Mountain” dessert. So during this time when Korean desserts and hipster cafes are flooding the Instagram feed, it is literally REFRESHING to see a home-grown Taiwanese dessert café NICEDAY. NICEDAY Desserts is an ice desserts café paired...
Geometry – Gelato On Tart With Salted Caramel Floss, Ice Cream Café Next to ABC Market
It felt like a Mathematics lesson on “Geometry” when owners Shuxian and Jeslyn named their newest ice cream cafe as such due to the formulas and equations needed to create their gelatos. (Who remembers √(x2 – x1)² + (y2 – y1)² + (z2 -z1)²?) Sounds cheem because Shuxian, who...
Nunsongyee – Another Korean Bingsu Café At Bukit Timah, Opens 24/7
There is no stopping for Korean dessert café Nunsongyee 눈송이, which has opened up yet another bingsu shop, this time at Bukit Timah. Located at Yuk Tong Ave, a short distance walk from Beauty World MRT station (exit to Chun Tin Road), the cafe has a relatively large seating...
Style By Style Vibes Cafe – Mediacorp Campus Welcomes A New Café by Sharon Au
After leaving Mediacorp in 2005, ex-artist Sharon Au started Mediacorp’s first fashion community portal styleXstyle in 2012, and Style by Style Vibes café in the new Mediacorp Campus at one-north recently. Her energy is amazing. Located along Star Avenue with all the local celebrities (fanboys, fangirls alert!), the new...
Portico Prime – Modern European Food In A Garden Setting At Dempsey
Portico Prime had a revamp of the team, along with most of the kitchen team. Many of the items featured here, such as the Afternoon Tea, are no longer available. Readers may want to do some thorough research before planning for a meal there. Once in...
Timbre+ – 1st Container & Food Truck Food Place In Singapore. 35 Restaurant Brands & Hawker Stalls
Shipping container style restaurants and food trucks are commonplace in other countries, and popup areas like Bangkok’s Artbox has hipsters and youths going in droves. Singapore has seen its first such concept, and in a big way at Timbre+, or Timbre Plus. Timbre+ is located at 73A Ayer Rajah...
Bingki Korean Desserts – Bingsu Cafe At Tanjong Pagar
The weather, oh, the merciless hot weather. That is why (some) bingsu cafes are surviving well in Singapore. There are so many Korean Bingsu shops which opened (and closed) within a short one year frame, it is not even funny anymore. Did Bingki Korean Desserts enter the saturated market...
Crab Corner – $28.80++ Ala Carte Seafood Buffet! Journey To The West For Salted Egg Crabs
“Joo Koon. Serious?” For the love of Salted Egg Crabs, we journeyed to the extreme west for Crab Corner 蟹天王. Fortunately for those of us who stayed in the north and west (ie Queentown), the SMRT train ride didn’t take too long. Also Crab Corner is located within Joo...
Creamier – Popular Ice Cream Cafe Opens Another ‘Playground’ At Gillman Barracks
Shortly after Creamier’s sister outlet, Sunday Folks, celebrated their first anniversary last weekend, Creamier found a second playground at Gillman Barracks. Unlike their first outlet at Toa Payoh HDB estate that experienced a continuous human traffic, Gillman Barracks was relatively quieter and “ulu” geographically. Ok, no more dining at...
Waa Cow – Wakao! Beef Bowl And Chirashi Don Within NUS Campus
Shortly after cafes such as Butter My Buns in NUS Utown and The Pipe District opened near NUS campus, Wa Cow specialised in Asian and modern rice bowls moo-ed into the NUS Shaw Foundation Alumni House. My friends commented: “Wa Kao. Why don’t have these cafes during our time?”...
The Pipe District – Pipe Themed Restaurant Serves Salted Egg Wings and Charcoal Fish & Chips
We were piped up, but got lost navigating through the constellation map of ulu Science Park, with buildings named after the various horoscopes. Our task: Find the Gemini, the building where The Pipe District is located, amongst all the other ‘stars’. The Pipe District is a ‘pipe-themed’ restaurant serving...
Butter My Buns – Tiramisu Hero Opens Café at NUS UTown. Don’t Go If You Are Rushing For Lectures Because…
Students these days are blessed with easily accessible cafes within campus. Think having café food in between lectures, project meeting over artisanal coffee and munching on takeaway waffles during tutorial classes. Ok, we do sound really old here… The Tiramisu Hero team (Hello Peggy) at Jalan Besar with the...