What do you look for in a Japanese fine dining restaurant? Really nothing short of brilliant – Quality cuisine, freshness and skills, attention to details, premium service experience, and that unspeakable X-factor. EZOCA at Quayside Isle has almost all of that, especially when it come...
Popular Bookstore opens a café. Yes, the same Popular Bookstores where hungry, I mean kiasu parents hunt down assessment books and 10-years series for their adolescent to get a head-start of their successful life. Popular was my ‘saviour’ in that way too. (Won’t have cleared my Os and...
Recently, I have been a “date guru” of sorts. Not just food anymore. People asking me where to bring their girlfriends on a first date, first month anniversary, first year anniversary etc etc. Actually, I rather not recommend as I would never want to be guilty of recommending a ‘wrong...
There has been a Facebook Page to “Boycott Jollibee Singapore” and posts on TR Emeritus to “Boycott-Pinoy-first business” , gathering lots of comments, many of which are insulting to the Filipinos and other foreign labour in Singapore. I know this may anger some people, but I find the...
Jaan under Chef de Cuisine Julien Royer recently won the ‘The One To Watch’ title and is ranked No. 22 in the inaugural Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants , signifying that this is indeed the restaurant to look out for in the coming years. (Read Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants – The Full List & Re...
Waku Ghin, where should I even start? That this is one of the best ranked restaurant in Singapore; the most expensive meal ever at $400, or that this is possibly the best meal in my entire life. Let’s start with Waku Ghin’s magnificent feat for being a relatively new two-year-old venu...
Nassim Hill Bakery Bistro Bar has one of the most interesting concepts – bakery with brunch items in the dawn, bistro in the noon, and transformed to a charming bar by dusk with DJs spinning at the side. Getting a condominium at Nassim Hill has always been one of my dreams (let that b...
It seems that the Atrium @ Orchard aka Plaza Singapura extension is going on a Japanese food route – with semi-buffet restaurant Hifiumi , hot pop restaurant Tsukada Nojo, dessert café Nana’s Green Tea, and the newly opened Hoshino Coffee. I am not complaining, because it gives us one...
