Tea Smoked Chicken THE MUST TRY LIST Eastern House of Seafood Delicacy: Lobster Hokkien Mee! I first wrote about Eastern House of Seafood Delicacy in 2014 and since then we have been back there for our family meals quite a
Next Gen Hawkerpreneurs Michelin Bib Gourmand Da Shi Jia Big Prawn Noodle: The evolution of Singapore food Singapore cuisine is undergoing puberty. In the last decade of so, it has quickly evolved from simple, austere hawker food to the stand alone restaurants
THE MUST TRY LIST Fried Porridge Dynasty Fried Porridge: Fried Porridge Chef finally opens his own place! It’s been a rocky road for Chef John, our fried porridge maestro. Barely a few months after he opened Royal J’s premium, it was shut
Bukit Merah Restaurants Wee Family Seafood: Zi Char with wine pairing We might be worried about the disappearance of certain hawker dishes like char kway teow or satay beehoon, but not zi char. Zi char is
Chinese (Non-Hawker) Restaurants Paradise Classic: Classy Zi Char Food This restaurant chain used to be known as Paradise Inn but had recently had a makeover. Instead of stools, now there are proper chairs and
Teochew Restaurants THE MUST TRY LIST Chin Lee Restaurant: Heartland Teochew Cuisine Classic Singaporean style Teochew food! One taste and you know you are onto some really good stuff. This kind of Singaporean heartland restaurants are a
Chinese (Non-Hawker) THE MUST TRY LIST Chui Xiang Kitchen: Wok Power! Discovering places like Chui Xiang Kitchen is really what this blog is all about. I really like these small eateries where the owner is also
Michelin Star Restaurants THE REALLY MUST TRY LIST Chef Kang’s Kitchen: The Return of the Canton Wokman! Chef Kang has shuttered his restaurant as of Oct 11, 2024. We managed to capture his last wok dance in the video below. It was
Zi Char - Prawn Rolls THE MUST TRY LIST Good Chance Popiah: Another Next Gen Zi Char Chef! Good chance popiah has got a few things going for it. Aside from the fact that it is opened by a 3rd gen Singaporean chef
Zi Char - Fish Head Bee Hoon Heritage Hawkers Hau Chu Seafood (Chop Lian Hin): Old School Zi Char in Teban Gardens! There is nothing more old school than a coffeeshop with a black signboard with carved chinese characters painted in gold. It’s so old school that
THE REALLY MUST TRY LIST Local Fish Files Zai Shun Curry Fish Head: A Place for Unique Steamed Fish! I have been very curious about the Sultan Fish ever since the news reported earlier year that a man was charged $1200 for it at
Fishhead Steamboat THE MUST TRY LIST Whampoa Keng Fishhead Steamboat: One Man, Two Wives and Fish Head Steamboat Pomfret Steamboat (L) $55 Fishhead steamboat. Is this another uniquely Singaporean dish or did it come from China? Doris, the lao ban niang (lady boss)
