Angel Floss, the Stuff Sweet Dreams are Made Of
It’s ok, you don’t have to hide it. I smile too when I see fairy floss (or cotton candy to some). I remember well this magical ball of spun sugar from my childhood. Even to this day if I happen […]
They’re out! The Cookbook Club Competition Round 1 Results
It was Saturday evening, the 19th of November 2016 when our five teams met up for an epic battle in Round 1 of the Cookbook Club Competition (read our previous article here). We had chosen to cook from David Thomson’s book Thai Food, a thick compendium, […]
The Cookbook Club Competition
It started easily enough. A random WhatsApp message between a group of friends suggesting that we try a Cookbook Club. What a great idea! We are a highly social bunch here in Singapore so an idea like this would work well. […]
A Novice’s Guide: Making Your Own Sourdough Bread at Home
So sick of sweet, processed supermarket bread, we brought sourdough starter to Singapore with the hopes of baking perfect loaves of rustic sourdough bread. The starter was given to us by my husband’s brothers. They have a part-time business in […]
Flavour Notes: Bean-to-Bar Chocolate Tasting 1
From ice cream van runs in the blazing summer heat, to late-night binging after that awful breakup, to a quick wine and chocolate pick-me-up after the kids have gone to bed. Chocolate is at once the most familiar of childhood […]
Advertising, Banking and the Art of Chocolate Making in Vietnam – Marou Chocolate
Founded in 2011, Marou is a French-Vietnamese bean-to-bar maker of fine chocolate. Co-founders Vincent Mourou and Samuel Maruta are French expats in Ho Chi Minh City who left former lives in advertising and banking respectively to pursue their curiousity for […]
Perk Coffee, a Passion for Life, Love and Fresh Roasted Coffee
Take a 20-something law school graduate from Australia, send him on a six month trip around the world and you’ll find him in Kenya 10 years later with 12,000 acres of wheat. Add another 6 years and you find him as the founder […]
Dapper Coffee
It was over a year and a half ago and perhaps it was all the wood panelling and old lanterns but I’m pretty sure that crusty old sailors never got coffee this good! One could turn their nose up at […]
Chye Seng Huat Hardware
Today I revisited Chye Seng Huat Hardware. It was 2013 when I last was there. Back then it was all the rage, with every other person who was talking about coffee also talking about CSHH. But who could blame them. Home to Papa […]
Brawn & Brains, an Instagrammable Cafe with a Bit of Heart
Brawn & Brains has been my solace for months now. After dearest husband moved out west for work, I’ve been doing the drive to drop him off and then stopping by at Brawn & Brains on my way home for […]