Category: Eating
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Le Habit
La Cuisine is becoming a hard habit to break. Not that it’s going to be any time soon that Naomi and I attempt to do that. It has become our refuge of sorts, and we rave about it to our friends, urging them to give the little bistro a go. (Two of them tried to…
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Hearty Halloween
There are many Singaporeans who cannot pronounce the word ‘pumpkin’. But Naomi and I love a good pumpkin soup, and there are several restaurants here that serve a really good bowl, even if the waiting staff repeats your order, telling you that you’ve ordered two ‘Pungkim Shoop’ Picture via Bits and Pieces iTunes is playing…
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Dawn of realisation
For more than four years, I’ve been buying my takeaway coffees from the Imperial Cafe & Pub on McCallum Street, and it’s only just now that I realised why the tables and chairs are placed so that patrons who dine in get to face McCallum Street and the silver-grey office block across it. When a…
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No, they’re not instant miniature buffalo
Instant buffalo – just add water These strange-looking things are called caltrops, and can be found in most supermarkets here, and in the case of the Cold Storage at Chancery Court, in a bin next to the pumpkin bin. They are called caltrops because they look like a medieval weapon called a caltrop, which… …was…
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One plus one is…
If you wanted a glossary of beverage definitions, go no further than Olio Dome, because their menus are like that, describing to the last drop what you might order, just so you’re never in any doubt that a beverage like a double espresso actually contains two shots of espressos and not one. Because that would…