Gastronomic Ruminations

I’ve been meaning to check out Artichoke Cafe and Bar for the longest time but just never got around to doing so till recently. A little bit of an Arabophile, I love Middle Eastern food and have been thinking about getting a fix so I was thrilled when J organized dinner at Artichoke. Serving Moorish [...]

One of my favourite local breakfast food is Chee Cheong Fun (steamed rice flour rolls). They’re usually sold smothered with sweet sauce and chili sauce. As I prefer savoury food to sweet food, I usually opt to omit the sweet sauce and chili.   Chee Cheong Fun 猪肠粉 @ S$1.20   My plate of Chee Cheong Fun draws its [...]

Hainanese Chicken Rice, one of many hawker dishes that has me craving a fix whenever I’m away from Singapore for more than 2 weeks. Although Chicken Rice is often referred to as a national dish of Singapore, it is getting increasingly difficult to find well-prepared chicken rice in hawker centres and foodcourts. Roast Chicken Drumstick [...]

Happy Cinco de Mayo (Spanish for 5th of May), a day to celebrate Latino culture and heritage. I love Mexican food but it’s quite difficult to get a fix as not many friends enjoy it as much as I do. When I received an invitation to try new items from Señor Taco’s menu at CHIJMES, I was [...]

I feel sad that hawker food in Singapore has largely lost its soul in the past decade with attention to preparation and flavour sacrificed to expediency and profitability. Whenever I find any hawkers who retain the richness of flavours and techniques from the past, I feel compelled to tell all my friends about these last bastions [...]

Tau Suan (Split Mung Bean Dessert with a porridge-like consistency) has been one of my favourite local desserts ever since I was a child but in the last 8 years, I hardly ate it, largely because the versions sold at most hawker stalls or foodcourts are but a shadow of this humble dessert’s tasty past. [...]

My cycling accident in February has made it a little more inconvenient to travel.  Unable to travel to Malacca to get a Putu Piring fix, I had to turn to the next best alternative that’s alot closer to home, the famous Haig Road Putu Piring. This stall has been selling my favourite Putu Piring since my [...]

During a recent trip to Malacca, I was determined to check out the famous homemade Putu Piring that I had seen featured in a Malaysian food programme. Putu Piring has been my favourite snack since I was a child and given it’s rarity in Singapore, I was eager to get a fix. I was the first to [...]

Chicken Curry Puff @ S$1.20 This is one of my favourite stalls at East Coast Lagoon Food Village. I would usually buy a curry puff to munch on while waiting for the rest of the food to be served. For those who are unfamiliar with curry puffs, these are a popular snack in Singapore. Think [...]

We stumbled upon this gem of a noodle house by accident. We were in a cab trying to find our way to the famous Cheong Fun stall called Tong Kee in Jordan, Kowloon. However, in my haste to get food, I saw “Tong Kee” on the sign and told the cabby that we were at [...]