Food and Beverage

Singapore, 4 September 2010 – Chunk Fest is the one and only hippie-themed ice cream festival held annually in Singapore since 2008. Celebrating all things good – peace, love and of course, Vermont’s finest ice cream from Ben & Jerry’s, Chunk Fest delivers a fun-filled day of activities including music […]

1 September 2010, Singapore – Thanks to the wonderful people at Asia Pacific Breweries (APB) for inviting the blogger community down for a tour of the brewery.  Getting to the brewery, which is situated at Jalan Ahmad Ibrahim, was quite a challenge especially when we were trying to beat the […]

With the mid autumn festival happening on 3 October 2010, the lantern festival will be coming to Singapore again.  It’s the time of the year where mooncakes flood Singapore again.    There are the traditional baked and snow skin mooncakes.  Whet your appetite while you celebrate this tradition with Häagen-Dazs Ice […]

Planning for a family outing, there’s a place you might want to consider for brunch with your family. Re! Plenish, a new brunch buffet at Hotel Re!’s recently opened ballroom called Re! Joice. Re!Joice,  situated beside the hotel, overlook the lush greenery of the city park with its glass panels, […]

14 July 2010, Singapore – Haagen-Dazs has been actively rolling out new concoctions and items to the menu this year.  First it was ice-cream cakes, then there was the Sushi-platter. Today, Haagen-Dazs Singapore introduces 5 new concoctions and is the 1st country in Asia to launch their latest Cocktail Menu […]

7 July 2010, Singapore – Swensen‘s launched 7 savoury flavours of ice cream to the media today.  When I got the media invite from Swensen‘s, I was thinking to myself whether they were going to serve chicken rice, char kway teow or goreng pisang ice cream.  The thought of that […]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgCHHo8licI] 8 July 2010, Singapore – Today the media were given a preview of the Singapore Chinese Dialect Tingkat Cruise as part of the Singapore Food Festival 2010 from 16 – 25 July 2010.  This 10 day festival of food has many fringe activities and the Tingkat Cruise is one […]

March 2010, Singapore – I was invited to review Pasta Inc which is located in a refurbished shophouse right in the outskirts of the city at 279 Jalan Besar.  Not very easily accessible and not where I would usually go for lunch so I decided to take a cab down.  […]

June 2010, London –   Swissôtel The Howard in London took advantage of UK’s flurry of Wimbledon fever and created an afternoon tea to celebrate the tennis championships from 1 June to 4 July 2010. The afternoon tea set is accompanied by a pot of my favourite Twinings tea, or […]

London, 17 June 2010 – The first day I touch down in London, a friend of mine asked me to join him at Sketch for afternoon tea after a big burger I had at the Hard Rock, London.   My friend told me that I would like Sketch, and truly I […]