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The Miele Guide: Voting Begins
Some of you know I’ve spent the last couple of months working as a web consultant on the Miele Guide. The most important phase of the site was launched a few minutes ago, the one that marks the start of online voting. It’s as much my baby as it is that of the amazing designer/developer [...]
Amazing Char Siew
For some of the best char siew, look no further than Meng Kee, in 13 Tengkat Tong Shin, Kuala Lumpur. It’s quite hard to locate, but.. damn. It really does taste like “bak kwa on steroids and pimped up with a greasy sugary coating… [like] pork-flavored candy with a greasy after-taste”, according to the Travelling [...]
My City
My city is often made out to be a boring business city, sterile and lifeless. Not entirely. No amount of protestation at how we’re really unique, though, is effective in driving home the truth about (some parts of) my city—how there are bits you can really love, if you look hard enough. My city, tonight, started [...]
The Miele Guide
I’ve spent the last couple of months working on a handful of projects. Most of them don’t look like they have anything to do with each other, but they allow me to spend my time dealing with the things I love. It must be apparent that one of my great passions is food, given how much [...]
Secret Nepali Hideout in Singapore
I wrote an email to one of my good friends, a Nepali guy studying in Singapore, with the million dollar question: where can I get real, and really good, home-cooked Nepali food here? There are many Nepali restaurants here, but as a South Asian food nazi I find them all lacking. He said there was [...]
I TOOK A PICTURE WITH SONDRE LERCHE
Self-explanatory. OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG. (We’re such fangirls, we were first in line for the autograph session. Someone: “So kiasu Singaporean!” Me: “But I was the only Singaporean… and I didn’t queue! The Malaysian did! Malaysians also kiasu ok!” This is turning out to be like the I’m Malaysian, I Don’t Shower episode…) Check out Sondre’s MySpace [...]
Move to Bremerton
While talking about music earlier in the night, the conversation turned to ‘music that we grew up with’, music that changed us, music that define periods of your life. We all have those, music that have made us who we are now. Like when you walk through a mall and hear a certain song and [...]
2007 Five Best Travel and Eating Moments
A Malay Feast in the Jungle Some of the best food I’ve had all year wasn’t in a restaurant, but at the jungle residence of a feisty elderly woman 45 minutes out of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. I had been intending to eat at Aunty Rosna’s Sarang Murai (Magpie’s Nest) ever since reading about it, but it [...]
The Food We Eat
From left: Pak Kecil, Saiful, me and random pakcik at a warung in front of the Stasiun Tugu. Gemuk or not? And obviously I’m having fun being a tourist, what with that Same Same But Different tshirt and all. No matter how cosmopolitan or diverse your taste buds are, some things are for certain: you are [...]
June Next Year
The dream that came through, and what we’ll be expecting from the ”#1 restaurant in the world”—magic.