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You know the season of durian is here again, with durian-fanatics rattling off their favourite haunts for Mao Shan Wang, Sultan, Phoenix and D24 at Geylang and Balestier; while the tais tais savour their durian puffs at Goodwood Park. How about some Durian Chee Cheong Fun? Yikes! The two is like forbidden love, as if [...]

Chocolate Origin has been known for its extremely chocolate cakes, and they have only 3 products in its shop – The original chocolate, dark and lava cake. This reminds me when Awfully Chocolate started out selling just chocolate cakes as well. While they have been dishing out chocolate goodness in Changi Village (who can be [...]

I am probably the first to write about this very new E.clat Gourmet Canteen. You may wonder what “E.clat” (pronounced ‘a-kla’) is – Not a long choux French pastry, but French meaning “great brilliance, as of performance or achievement”. Great performance for a canteen? Well, the restaurant is owned by a group of property agents. [...]

Luke Mangan is one of Australia’s most celebrated celebrity shop, with his first restaurant Salt at Sydney receiving rave reviews and great popularity. Salt grill & Sky bar at Ion Orchard is also a fashionable urban restaurant delivering the Luke Mangan style of contemporary Australian cuisine. And so when 2 beauty bloggers (MoonBerry & Claire’s [...]

[Melbourne, Australia] Cupcake Central is Melbourne’s better known cupcake shop. Located just outside the dining hall at Melbourne Central, I felt like Alice lost in Cupcakewonderland just looking at the pretty little pinky things. You would wish you had that extra tummy to stuff in the black velvet, vanilla vanilla, devil’s food chocolate, raspberry white [...]

You are not reading wrong – An all-you-can-eat authentic Japanese buffet priced at only $14.90++ for lunch! And that includes a wide spread of more than 100 seasonal selections which include sushi, yakitori, okonomiyaki and desserts. Sounds like a good deal. Chiso Zanmai is an Osaka-based Japanese buffet restaurant known for its fresh seafood, and [...]

This corner shop space at Killiney Road changed hands from House of Rice Roll and Porridge, Sun Coffee Planet, Ding Ji Café to the present BigBank Café in about a year. A case of bad ‘feng shui’ or poor business model? BigBank Café, a Western food eatery which serves special wines, beers and ciders, land [...]

I believe in a) the underdogs b) if you want to sell things, make that one thing, and make it really good. Barcook Bakery, the small bakery shop which started off at Hong Lim Complex off Chinatown, has done just that. Its four branches at Hong Lim, Central, One Raffles Place and OG Albert Complex [...]

Opening a restaurant is sometimes about location, location, location. Covelli Italian Bistro & Wine Bar is a promising addition in the Orchard Road belt, but its site at the 2nd basement of Orchard Central (besides Medz) may leave it very unnoticeable. And I couldn’t find its entrance. Its contemporary monochromatic décor and mood lighting suggests [...]

Centrepoint has been off the Orchard radar for a while, and I was gladly surprised to see a new Hong Kong café opening at Level 1 within an obscure corner. What’s a Hong Kong café without a wide-ranging variety of food? The menu is huge, with more than twenty different menu sub-headings to select from [...]