Over Easter we did a 10 day road trip to the Spanish region of Andalusia. The architecture was beautiful and the tapas were varied and delicious. The region is one I’ve been wanting to visit for a long time, I had bought the lonely planet book years ago to start dreaming and planning so was…
Category: Foodie Adventures
Hanoi Street Food
Vietnamese food is delicious. Flavorful, cheap, colorful and has so many different varieties. On my previous trip I had really enjoyed the food and was looking forward to trying some new things this time. Going through the old town, sitting on the small stools in the small shops is quite an experience. But since I…
Color burst of the day
Taste AND look good! Hard to choose just one (or 4 for that matter!)
Borough Market
The Borough market near the London Bridge is one of the oldest markets in the city dating back as far as 1214. These are just half the things I saw. A great way to spend an afternoon sampling delicious foods and buying unique gifts as well as a quick stroll to London Bridge!
Singapore Food – Part 3
Fried Kway Teow This has probably replaced Chicken Rice as my favorite food here. The dish is made with flat noodles and stir fried in soy sauce, chilli and egg. It also has cockles, bean sprouts, Chinese sausage and fishcakes. The dish is usually topped with chives. Usually from $3-6 SGD at hawker stalls. Yummm…
Supermarket fun – Singapore
I love walking through the super markets to see the different types of foods that are available here and how the marketing is done, especially the different flavors of Western food items. Some interesting flavors and fun items I’ve seen in the super markets so far.
Rainbow Xiao Long Bao
I finally got a chance to try the multi-colored and multi-flavored Xiao Long Bao at Paradise Dynasty! I love the original so when I saw all these other flavors, I really wanted to see if anything could surpass it. Xiao Long Bao is a Shanghainese dumpling specialty filled with pork and a soupy broth and I first…
Dim Summing It Up!
I was really excited to go to Hong Kong especially since I’ve heard so many comparisons between Hong Kong and Singapore. I would have to say, although they are two modern, expensive cities of pre dominantly Chinese population, the similarity ends there. English is much less spoken in Hong Kong (even though it was a former…
Gotta get some mooncakes
Well this year I didn’t get to try champagne or tiramisu mooncakes like I wanted to a year ago but I did get to try a traditional one and icecream one! Both were really good. For the traditional one, I did not like the taste of the yolk but the outer part was pretty good –…
Singapore Food – Part 2
The official Singapore Food Festival was during the month of July. By Clarke Quay there were a lot of fun food stalls and cooking demonstrations going on. So in honor of this festival, the post is dedicated to more food I’ve tried in the past few months. (And yes, as the name suggests, I intend…
FOOD
Singaporeans love food and there are many local varieties of Malay, Indian and Chinese foods! Some of the new things I’ve tried so far My absolute favorite – Hainanese Chicken Rice. It looks (and sounds) pretty plain but it is super delish! You can get either the steamed version or the roasted chicken version, I…
Mid-Autumn/Moon cake/Lantern festival
Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival or Moon cake festival! I’m not exactly sure why it’s called mid-Autumn festival since autumn actually begins today…. but then again I’m just an expat 🙂 The China town in Singapore was bustling with energy and there were beautiful decorations and tons of moon cakes everywhere in all different flavors….
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