THE MUST TRY LIST Home Cooks Daddy’s Kitchen: Come home for dinner! Why do people always say home-cooked is best? Well, for one thing it is getting more difficult to get a descent home-cooked meal nowadays. When
Next Gen Hawkerpreneurs Heritage Hawkers Simon Road Oyster Omelette: Back at the same spot! Today we pay tribute to the late Mr Lim Seng Hong who passed away during Chinese New Year this year. I first met him in
THE REALLY MUST TRY LIST Home Cooks Aunty Oh Bama’s Homecooked Indian Curries on HCOOK App Now you don’t have to be envious of anyone who likes to brag about their own mother’s cooking! With the HCOOK App, you can have
Heritage Hawkers Yuhua Village FC Jiao Cai BBQ Seafood: Origins of BBQ Stingray My quest for the origins of Singapore hawker dishes has brought me to this BBQ seafood stall at Yuhua Village Food Centre where I met
THE MUST TRY LIST Farrer Bakery Brera: The Evolution of HDB Bakeries I still remember the bad old days in the 70’s when there was only one type of bread. Those were the days before Gardenia introduced
THE MUST TRY LIST Song Fish Head Eat First! 食之為鮮 A Tale of Two Brothers Once upon a time, there was a man who ran a very successful restaurant serving traditional Cantonese style food. This man, Mr Chai Kok Hoong,
THE MUST TRY LIST Golden Mile FC Charlie’s Peranakan Food is Back! You really can’t keep a good cook out of the kitchen for too long! When I last wrote about Charlie’s Peranakan in 2009, he was
Heritage Hawkers Double Boil Soup Si Yang Steam Soup: The Trials of the Hawker Life The couple behind Si Yang Steam Soup have been diligently serving their steam soup since 1982 and had built quite a good business at Ang
Alexandra Village HC Heritage Hawkers Lina’s Confectionery: Good olde Nonya Kueh! The first thing that strikes you about the lapis is how many layers there are. Then as you peel the layers, just how stretchy they
Next Gen Hawkerpreneurs Kuehs/Dumplings Kim’s Kuehs: The End of Teochew Kuehs? I really hate to be a naysayer, I really do. But just as I said that it is “The End of Char Kway Teow”, traditional
THE MUST TRY LIST Restaurants Hana-hana: Cheap and Good Omakase The food at Hana-hana is very good value. I am not saying you will get top class Japanese food, but for a Japanese omakase meal,
Michelin Star Restaurants Michelin Guide Singapore CUT by Wolfgang Puck: Highland Beef — Finally! About four years ago, I picked up a book from the library that was simply titled “Steak”. There are very few single words that have
