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Welcome Autumn with Simmered Pumpkin

Not that we get to celebrate autumn on our sunny shore but one good reason to cheer the arrival of autumn in the rest of the world or rather in Japan is of course the harvesting of rice. I always look forward to the new crop rice from Japan that [...]

Indian Basmati tonight

Hey tambi, do you know Indian food is another love of mine?  Many of my friends were surprised to know that I actually enjoyed Indian food but I seriously do, the texture of basmati rice – dry without losing its bite, I love that mouth-feel of basmatic rice. Grainy and all.  Yum!! And of course [...]

Shibaken

Shibaken has been around for a few months now. It initially created quite a stir within the Japanese community here because it is the first Japanese-style French restaurant to open up in Singapore. I have been very keen to try but never find the right time to. [...]

Lunch @ KO

I happened to be in Bugis area today and was seriously craving for some sushi. I initially couldn’t think of a good place until KO came to mind. The restaurant was previously Suntory but ever since replacing Suntory at Hotel intercontinental, it has been much under the radar that I have forgotten about its existence until I was…………

Tendon Tokyo-Style

If you are traveling to Toyko, you need to know where to eat what and once in a while you get an urge to eat something you had enjoyed so much as if it was in your past life…well something you enjoyed but have not had for ages.  Somehow these days I’ve been craving for [...]

Burdock fries with snow salt

During my last trip to Japan, I was given snow salt by a salt producer in Japan.  I was rather facinated by the nature of this salt, I’ve known rock salt, pink salt, rose salt, sea salt that used in medicinal, beauty and cooking but snow salt was new to me.  Its crisp white and extremely fine, powder-like nature is almost comfortable [...]

Sui Japanese Dining

We popped by Sui for dinner last night after doing a corporate sushi workshop in Tanjong Pagar area. The restaurant was unexpectedly quiet on a Saturday evening. We were the only customers throughout our dinner there. Concerned about the quality of the food, we were very cautious with our [...]