One of the Best Yusheng Delivery · Beautiful Like Gardens by the Bay · Feast Box by Esseplore

Two weeks of Chinese New Year celebrations, limit to maximum five guests per day, can cause headaches to some people. Feast Box by Esseplore offers a brilliant solution to keep everything joyful and stress free.

Kagoshima Kitchen · Wagyu Specialist @ 100AM Tanjong Pagar

Kagoshima Kitchen wasn't on our agenda this morning but we found ourselves here due to some last minute change of plans 🤷  Anyway, it turned out to be an over indulgent experience and a benchmark for wagyu for me 😄

Stall name: Kagoshima Kitchen

Address: 100 Tras Street, #03-13, Singapore 079027 (at level 3 of 100AM mall beside Amara Hotel)

Nearest MRT: 10 minutes walk from Tanjong Pagar station

Tel: 6443 2218

Hours: 11:30am - 2:30pm | 6:00pm - 9:30pm

Foods that Bind · Social Glue of Hakka People · Abacus Seed, Lei Cha and Poon Choi 客家人

Hakka people left their ancestral homeland around 300 AD when their home in the Yellow River valley was conquered by nomadic invaders from the north. For the next 1,700 years, the Hakka people kept moving south to escape wars and conflict. Today, there are over 100 million Hakka in the world with half living in China and the rest around the world.

JOYFULNESS DINING Eating Through A Dozen Years · A Guest Post By Shirley Tan

Two Pigs, two Rats and a Rabbit sat down to dinner at Joyfulness Dining in KINEX Mall. They decided to each choose a dish from the “Chinese Zodiac Five Elements Lucky Meal” to welcome the Year of the Tiger 🐯  

Restaurant name: Joyfulness Dining by Yuan Cuisine Group

Address: 11 Tanjong Katong Road, #02-38 KINEX Mall, Singapore 437157

Nearest MRT: 10 minutes walk from Paya Lebar station

Tel: 8690 4726

Hours: 10:00am - 10:00pm (opens at 8am on Sat & Sun)

Where do Hakka Come From? History of "Guest People" Migration & Cuisine 客家五次遷徙

Hakka 客家 people form the fourth largest community among ethnic Chinese in Singapore. Hakka presence in Singapore hawker culture can be seen in dishes like yong tau foo, lei cha rice, Hakka beef noodles, etc. In Johor (Malaysia), there are choy ban (bamboo shoot / chive dumplings), deep fried fermented bean curd pork, bitter gourd soup, Hakka mee, etc.

Hakka dishes are historic dishes, artefacts from China's ancient Central Plains, centred in today's Henan province. These dishes came to us through five great migrations of Hakka people to the South, a long march starting nearly 2,000 years ago.

Where to Eat Teochew Marinated Raw Crab 🦀 Chaoshan Poison in Singapore 潮汕毒药 🦀 生腌螃蟹

There are not many restaurants in Singapore with Teochew Marinated Raw Crab 潮州生腌螃蟹 on their menu. This traditional Teochew dish is so potent that, in China, they call it Chaoshan Poison 潮汕毒药.

History of Babi Guling & Why Balinese Eat Pork in the World's Largest Muslim Country

Indonesia is the largest Muslim country in the world, so why do Balinese in Indonesia eat pork? 

The most common reply is: "Because Balinese are Hindus".

HK Mong Kok Kui Ji Kitchen · One of the Best Zhi Char in Chinatown Complex 香港旺角葵记小厨

Buddies Daniel, Sylvia and Judy (who are ardent foodies) asked where shall we meet for lunch. I replied, "The one I saw you posted a couple of times last week" - HK Mong Kok Kui Ji Kitchen in Chinatown Complex. My buddies are so super nice - they ended up going to the same stall three times in a week just to accommodate me 😝 🙏

Stall name: HK Mong Kok Kui Ji Kitchen 香港旺角葵记小厨

Address: 335 Smith Street, stall #02-217, Singapore 050335 (stall in Blue Zone of Chinatown Complex Food Centre)

Nearest MRT: 5 minutes walk from Chinatown station

Tel: 9789 5529

Hours: 11:00am - 2:00pm | 5:00pm - 9:00pm (Weds off)

Macau Fong Cheng Cuisine @ Chinatown Complex · Hidden Gem Cantonese Zhi Char 澳门凤城小厨

Five of us went zhi char diving in Chinatown again - I mean we went to Chinatown Complex again to try and spot under-the-radar zhi char stalls. I am glad to report that we are happy with the outcome of today's mission - we enjoyed our lunch at Macau Fong Cheng Cuisine 澳门凤城小厨. If you Google for this stall now, you will find more or less nothing on it online.

Stall name: Macau Fong Cheng Cuisine 澳门凤城小厨

Address: 335 Smith Street, stall #02-211, Singapore 050335 (Blue Zone in Chinatown Complex Food Centre)

Nearest MRT: 5 minutes walk from Chinatown station

Tel: 9712 6998

Hours: 11:30am - 9:30pm

Thailand Style Chicken Rice @ Golden Mile Hawker Centre · From Soi Thong Lo to Singapore 泰式雞飯

During my last few visits to Golden Mile Food Centre, Thailand Chicken Rice stall always caught my attention. The stall window was always meticulously laid out. The parade of golden brown fried chicken looked so alluring - do they taste as good as they look? I can't help wondering 🤔

Stall name: Thailand Chicken Rice 泰式雞飯

Address: 505 Beach Road, stall #B1-39, Singapore 199583 (inside Golden Mile Food Centre)

Nearest MRT: 10 minutes walk from Lavender station

Tel: 9387 1217

Hours: 7:00am - 7:00pm till sold out (usually around 2pm)