Starbucks vs My Favourite Independent
** PAPPA PALHETA HAS NOW MOVED to Tyrwhitt Rd, near Little India and is run out of the Chye Seng Huat Hardwear building** I have never forgotten the article I once read on… Read More
Bloody but Brilliant Burger
Don’t get me wrong I love Singlish, which is generally an amusingly succinct and economical way of talking out here in Singapore, but I have issue with a word I keep hearing… Read More
A Morning in Tiong Bahru
I love this part of town with its art deco housing (the first ever HDB blocks), wet market to beat all other markets and string of newly opened, seemingly flourishing independent shops:… Read More
The China Club…with Turner, Me and My Mother-in-Law
I’m a total weirdo in that I love it when my mother-in-law’s in town (although she’s Singaporean she has lived in the UK for the last 40 years, and still does). I… Read More
Proper English Fish and Chips…in Bukit Timah
Perhaps it was just that all the key components were right: very crispy battered fish, ‘fat’ hot homemade chips and torrential heavy rain…but we had a very successful (not so much for the… Read More
Westlake…One Dish is Cheaper Now than 20 Years Ago
I love this place. It’s a kind of Por Kee but better known and with an easier name (a friend of mine failed to find any information out about Por Kee when… Read More
Changmoh for Ribbon and Roses: My Favourite Things in Sing
Maz, founder and owner of fashion boutique Ribbon & Roses, (based here, it is sold globally) has kindly invited me to write a guest blog for her website. This is what she… Read More
