Posted in inSing.com feature articles on Feb 18th, 2010
Gong Xi Fa Cai, everyone! Did you enjoy your Lunar New Year celebration? For me, it was a really busy time. Lots of cooking, baking, cleaning, and visiting. I only managed to bake pineapple tarts this year. Sorry, no photos, cos I was too exhausted. Besides pineapple tarts, radish cake is another Lunar New Year [...]
Posted in Eat-Out: Singaporean on Dec 15th, 2009
There are 3 kinds of street-style fried radish cake 抄菜头粿 in Singapore: the “black” version, “white” version, and not so commonly, the eggy pancake type. In the modestly-sized Bukit Timah Food Centre, there are two food stalls – Seng Kee Carrot Cake (#02-182) and He Zhong 合眾菜頭粿 (#02-185) – selling fried radish cake, and both [...]
Posted in Food and travel on Jul 4th, 2009
So here’s what really good char koay kak tastes like! The sad, soggy version I had on the first night is nothing like the real deal! This was an unexpected find. Ricky and I were walking back to Traders Hotel after breakfast at Toh Soon Cafe. From Campbell Street (Lebuh Campbell), we walked down Cintra [...]
Posted in Food and travel on Jun 26th, 2009
Hubby has been in Penang, Malaysia since Monday to conduct training at USM. By the time I checked into Sunway Hotel, Georgetown on Thursday, it was nearly 9pm. Hubby and colleague already had dinner. I wasn’t very hungry either, after all that free food and plane meal, but I just couldn’t resist the bustling street [...]
Posted in Eat-Out: Singaporean on Apr 12th, 2009
I’ve actually blogged this place before, way way back in 2004! Yup, I’d just started blogging then. Look at that dinky photo, taken with our very first digicam, a Fuji E500. It’s hard to believe I’m still blogging, and still eating at this stall almost every Saturday morning when I accompany the mother-in-law to the [...]
Posted in Fun Stuff, Special events on Jul 4th, 2008
The Singapore Food Festival 2008 opened with a bang at Lau Pa Sat this evening. Local food bloggers received media invites to this event. Ooh, so now food bloggers are given mainstream media status? Cool! The guest-of-honor was Minister of State for Trade and Industry, Mr Lee Yi Shyan (second from left in above photo). [...]
Hear Julia on radio every Thursday 12:15pm as she shares a Foodie Lunch Pick on 938LIVE's F-Cube with hosts Eugene Loh and Levisha Kumar. Click here for more information!
