July 2011
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A list of places I want to go to (again)
Salt Grill & Sky Bar
Kith Café
PS Café at Dempsey (Harding Road)
Artichoke Café & Bar
Salta Argentine Parrilla + Grocer
Cocotte
Privé
Epicurious
Bonheur Patisserie
The Black Sheep Café (5 Mayo Street; +65 9272 1842)
Tonkatsu by Ma Maison (Mandarin Gallery; +65 6733 4541)
Pasta Brava (11 Craig Road; +65 6227 7550)
Sweets Garibaldi (#02-26 Mandarin...
32 Things
A dear friend (and ex-colleague) and someone I look up to and admire a lot - Pip (I love her Twitter thoughts) - recommended I do up a list.
Her words were “I think you should make a list of 100 things that you are grateful for, proud of, that make you happy, or that inspire you in some way. Read the list every morning and every night and think about your blessings. Sorry if this sounds...
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[More] words from this blog
Played around on Wordle again and the words on my blog, some 5-ish months later seem to skew greater towards those associated with food. Well, I do like cherries and they are my current addition.
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Theo at Washington Square Park
I arrived in New York City on the 2nd of May, my second trip to New York. Sheryl & I took a walk through Washington Square Park; it one of the parks Lisa had shown me on the previous trip. We walked to the fountain area which wasn’t in operation and saw the most gorgeous child. I asked dad Chris if I could take a photo to which he graciously replies yes. I’ve sent an earlier copy...
Sleep is for the exhausted
I don’t think I should stay up any further tonight. G’night world.
Kay xx
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More cherries
I bought more cherries from Cold Storage today and I must say, I’ve been very happy with both batches of cherries. Normally I rant about how the fruit (non-local) in Singapore is crap - hard & sour strawberries that cost $21 (c. £10) a punnet, peaches that wouldn’t ripen but go straight to squishy yet tasteless.
But.
A couple of weeks ago, I bought a bag of cherries from Cold...
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Made to order
Aren’t these just absolutely gorgeous? They arrived in the post a couple of days ago and when I saw the box, I couldn’t wait to open it. Out came my trusted X-Acto and I was tearing away the box in no time. I love gorgeous, interesting cutlery and crockery. Sometimes the right fork or spoon just makes the picture! Ooooh! Reminds me - I have pics of a lime tart that I need to write...
Something's Not Right
I’m quite good at feeling things before they happen and my life doesn’t feel right, from my Baby (my MBP) feeling unresponsive to the uncertainties in practically all the other areas of my life. Sonething’s definitely wrong.
Some thoughts my current place in life
Singapore is the 8th most expensive country to live in. This according to the Wall Street Journal from yesterday I think. It’s interesting. I never really bothered about inflation, consumer price indices, exchange rates - just about everything I studied in Economics and promptly unlearned after uni - till now. Till after I’d gone to and returned from London. Till after I can say that...
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Slow poached egg & grilled portobello, chorizo &...
Last Sunday, I woke up pretty early, before my parents actually, and found myself inspired to make breakfast. Looking around in the fridge, I had bread from Sun Moulin, some portobello mushrooms & chorizo from last week’s trip to the supermarket (Fairprice at Killiney) with Aunty Merri, and a box of baby spinach that I picked up from Carrefour the day before.
I really wanted to try...
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Buen Ayre in London
Has it really been that long?
I had been wanting to try Buen Ayre out for a while, since an ex-colleague told me about it - said that they do the best meat there. So as part of operation Try As Many New Places As I Can Before I Leave London, Buen Ayre was definitely on the list..
Me, happy as a lark at the thought of copious amounts of meat. And red wine. And did I mention meat? Apologies to...
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Strawberry Chip Cookies
When I was at Evonne’s, still in London, we passed by a candy store one day between Mornington Crescent and Camden Town. I don’t remember the name of the candy store but I did buy something from there - strawberry chips! They smelled like strawberry Pocky and I just had to get some. There were other flavours too like orange chips and liquorice chips. I only got the strawberry. What...
“Listening to Van Morrison’s “Days Like This.”
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Thai food at Thai Express
Dinner last night was with my best friend’s mom, who’s taken me under her wing in the field of real estate. We went to Thai Express at United Square coz we couldn’t get a table at Artichoke for dinner (yes, please make a reservation if you want to go).
We ordered one of the Thai tom yum steamboat sets, a beef salad, prawn cakes and because it’s her birthday next week,...
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All in a day's work
And considering I’m not actually ‘working,’ I did a heck of a lot!
Right first the not working bit. I’m back in Singapore and I’ve decided that I don’t want to work for a corporation anymore. Being in advertising wasn’t quite ‘corporate’ but it was corporate enough, especially when everyone needs to report into Martin Sorrell. So I’m...
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Brunch at Artichoke Cafe & Bar
Yesterday, my best friend Cheri and I went to brunch at Artichoke, for Sunday brunch. Me, ever the brunch-loving Singaporean foreigner that I am, thought that Egg3 at Mandarin Gallery was a restaurant and only found out yesterday morning that it wasn’t, and so began the task of googling “best brunches in Singapore.”
Artichoke is my best brunch find in Singapore so far...
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Tomato soup with basil & parmesan
It’s 4 am in the morning and what a night. No, I haven’t been partying till the wee hours. Quite the opposite actually. I’ve been having trouble sleeping. And even though I’m better than I was 4 days ago, I’m still coughing, particuarly at night when my head hits the pillow.
I wish I could say that I grew up in a household centered around food, with happy memories around the dinner table. I...
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Where to find good bread in Singapore
I love bread. No wait, I love good bread. None of that Gardenia/Sunshine/Boujour crap that you get in supermarkets. Not even local bakeries which somehow don’t end up doing bread very well. I like two types of bread: good, crusty baguette type bread and multi grain/seed loaves.
In London, my favourite bread was from Le Pain Quotidien, a Belgian bakery/cafe/restaurant which made the best...