Category: Lifestyle & Family

Food, fashion, travel, holidays

Cafe On The Ridge and other Food Updates

May 7, 2009May 8, 2009  |  Lifestyle & Family  |  It seems lately this blog has featured lots of food posts, and yet I still have a bunch of food photos queued up. So it’s time for a consolidated food update: Cafe on the Ridge, Central Square (NUS), Yakun, Casa Verde, and ...

Darrell Lea Chocolates

May 4, 2009May 19, 2016  |  Lifestyle & Family  |  Gloria Jean coffee now sells the Australian brand of chocolates, Darrell Lea. It’s a big again in Australia, although I don’t think it was really very spectacular. They used to sell chocolate coated coffee beans a ...

Godiva Chocolates

May 3, 2009May 26, 2016  |  Lifestyle & Family  |  They’re no doubt quite nice, but sometimes I think they are overpriced. — Posted from my N95 ...

Buffet at Hotpot Culture

May 1, 2009May 22, 2016  |  Lifestyle & Family  |  The cold cut chicken slices at Hotpot Culture is quite good. This is a one-time complimentary dish include in their buffet. At $7.90 only it’s pretty good value for money. — Posted from my N95 ...

No Helper For One Month

May 1, 2009August 17, 2016  |  Lifestyle & Family  |  Today it’s one month since we’ve been without a maid at home. I’m quite surprised we managed to make do without our maid for one whole month. It was originally going to be just 14 days of home leave, and we were ...

Tang Dian Wang

May 1, 2009  |  Lifestyle & Family  |  Just catching up on some photos of makan places. This is the Lotus Leaf Rice with roasted pork from Tang Dian Wang. Its quite delicious. Pity that baby Vanessa hijacked the rice to cover up her plate, so we weren’t quite ...

Buffet At Marriott Cafe

April 28, 2009April 28, 2009  |  Lifestyle & Family  |  Last weekend, we had the lunch buffet at Marriott Cafe. We’ve tried their lunch and high-tea buffets before and thought they were quite good, although that was quite some time ago. We noticed there’s slightly more ...

Tang Dian Wang’s Plate

April 27, 2009December 24, 2011  |  Lifestyle & Family  |  Vanessa was somehow greatly offended by the pictures at the bottom of this plate she got at Tang Dian Wang. I couldn’t even recall what the picture was. By the time I realized what she was up to, she had covered it with the ...

Live Drunken Prawns at Marriott Cafe

April 26, 2009May 22, 2016  |  Lifestyle & Family  |  A new addition to the buffet spread at Marriott Cafe is the live drunken prawns (at least since my last visit). It’s not bad, though I thought the cold prawns from the appetizer table were better. The buffet lunch costs ...

Wan Chai Hong Kong Tea Room

April 19, 2009  |  Lifestyle & Family  |  This is the Ham & Cheese Bread Toast from Wan Chai Hong Kong Tea Room at IMM. It’s somewhat like pizza, and it’s quite good. We also had the shui jiao mian for breakfast, which is not bad too. These are the few ...