Upper Boon Keng Mkt & FC Char Kway Teow Woks of Taste: New Beginnings for Char Kway Teow This Stall is Closed In 2010, I published “The End of Char Kway Teow” which sounded the alarm that the future of our beloved Char
Spanish Cuisine Duck Breast Lumbre: Modern Spanish Fire Cuisine Lumbre means fire in Spanish, and it is an apt name considering that the restaurant serves grilled cuisine as their specialty. This spanking new Spanish
THE MUST TRY LIST Private Dining Mama Jac’s Kitchenette: Cantonese Peranakan! The best Peranakan food in Singapore is not found at restaurants but in the homes of passionate Peranakan cooks. Unlike something like Char Kway Teow
Crab Bee Hoon Coffee Shop Food R Us: Quaint Zi Char Place This quaint zi char restaurant is just a stone’s throw away from Westlake restaurant, but I never noticed it as it is located at the
Crab/Seafood Omelette Mango Sticky Rice Nummun Thai Kitchen: Worth Checking out! With the easing of the Covid restrictions, our Mid Week Makan gatherings on Weds have resumed! Some of our newer readers may be wondering
Assam Fish Head Fish Head Curry Crab at Bay: The Return of the Crab Bee Hoon Crab at Bay only started operations a few months ago but seafood lovers are already discovering the Crab Bee Hoon whose flavour is reminiscent of
Tanjong Pagar Guoco Tower L’Arte Pizza: World Pizza Champion starts a new trend in Singapore In 2011, I wrote about the Vera Pizza Napoletana which ushered in the trend of Napoletana-style pizza in Singapore. Italian wood-fired ovens were still relatively
Next Gen Hawkerpreneurs Bak Chor Mee 25 Minced Meat Noodles: It just takes passion In our conversations about preserving our hawker culture, there has been a lot of talk about older hawkers passing the mantle onto the next generation.
World Gourmet Summit Events World Gourmet Summit Inaugural Hawker Series I am honoured to have been part of the panel of judges for the inaugural World Gourmet Summit Hawker Awards this year! Together with my
Heritage Hawkers Wonton Mee Nam Seng Wanton Mee: 92 years young and still going strong When Nam Seng closed their shop at Far East Square amidst the Covid pandemic, I thought that that was the end of yet another Singapore
Next Gen Hawkerpreneurs THE MUST TRY LIST Zheng Xing Delicacies: Tradition lives on! The thing that makes hawkers special is specialization. Most hawkers spend their entire life cooking just one dish. The good ones never stop trying to
THE MUST TRY LIST Jalan Besar GoldenRoy: San Francisco Sourdough Pizzas! I stumbled upon GoldenRoy while doing some research on pizzas. The man behind it is Roy who had picked up the interest in sourdough while
