Tag: food

  • Best ramen in the world

    Traditional Japanese Curtains for you to konk heads with departing customer Naomi and I have been to this place, I dunno, four, five times already in the last two months, and considering we don’t go out very often, it probably means we like the food a lot. Plastic models of dishes to help you decide…

  • The weekend worrier

    I had an unpleasant experience on Saturday over coffee at the Hilton. We had ordered some of the hotel’s world-famous cheesecakes to go with our coffee, and were settling down nicely to gorge ourselves further after a heavy lunch. Coffee was served with some complimentary choux pastry. Being the greedy person that I am, I…

  • Saturday

    You know it’s a good plate of greasy, lardy goodness when the queue’s already twenty long when you get there, and there are people in line in front of you who know how long it’s gonna take, and have taken the trouble of bringing a book along to read. It’s not that long, really, the…

  • Waiter, there’s too much food on my table

    There is a restaurant where you get rewarded for being a nice customer. Or at least, for being a customer who is nice enough to take time out to talk to the waiter about our HTC Touch phone which he was eyeing and wanting to ask about. When Naomi obliged by saying a couple of…

  • The good oil on bad fats

    I said, ‘get me a pic to do with “Trans Fat”, not “Fat Trans”‘ Photo by FredArmitage I now think that people who are easily confused (like myself) are less likely to eat healthily given the amount of information now available to us about saturated, unsaturated, monounsaturated, polyunsaturated, hydrogenated, partially hydrogenated fats and four-room HDB…