Great Cze Chars: One Ocean Seafood Restaurant 26 Aug 2013 | 04:30 am

Another cze char place with a twist... Last week, I featured Kian Seng, a cze char place which is quite extraordinary for the cooking, but also interesting use of ingredients. Today's feature is on O...

Great Cze Chars: Kian Seng 22 Aug 2013 | 04:30 am

Cze Char with a difference! How interesting. When I was first recommended by a good friend to this place, I had wanted to go sample the offerings...but before I even had a chance, I was invited by a P...

George of Georgetown: new Penang restaurant in town! 19 Aug 2013 | 04:30 am

A new Penang restaurant is always an interesting place to try...especially here in Singapore... Penang has a well developed hawker cuisine. I have documented my favourites several times. And recently...

Dutch Colony: great picolo latte 15 Aug 2013 | 04:30 am

Getting a good espresso or latte is getting easier in Singapore these days. Gone are the days when Starbucks and the large coffee joints dominate...and in are the days of the little cafes, where owner...

Revisit: Black Sheep Cafe 12 Aug 2013 | 04:30 am

I reviewed Black Sheep Cafe once before. It served rather good French inspired cuisine, at rather reasonable prices. The owner and chef, Ratha closed the cafe, went to work for another restaurant...fo...

Cze Char: Exercising the wok 8 Aug 2013 | 04:30 am

Cze Char is a staple standard in Singapore cuisine...food, cooked a la minute to order. Featuring fresh ingredients, some with great innovation. There are many around, most reasonably good. Today, I ...

Authentic Thai: Mad Thai. 5 Aug 2013 | 04:30 am

Wandering into a restaurant, sans reservation, sans recommendation is not usually something I do often...but one Sunday afternoon, after church service, we thought of lunching at Oh's Deli on their su...

Friends Favourites: Beef Noodles at Ngee Ann Poly 1 Aug 2013 | 04:30 am

School food...used to be a dread...but these days, schools compete for students, and have gone upmarket. Today I feature in Friend's Favourites, a brief food tour of Ngee Ann Polytechnic. In my day i...

Hochiak takes a break today...back on Thurs. 29 Jul 2013 | 05:09 pm

Peranakan Cuisine: 2004 Novena Peranakan 25 Jul 2013 | 04:30 am

Peranakan food is special, being peranakan, our home cooked comfort is of this genre, and as generally Peranakan womenfolk are good cooks, we are pretty pampered when it comes to good food. As a resu...