Open Kitchen Concept

Yangmei (杨梅), sometimes also called Yang Mei Berry, Chinese Bayberry or Waxberry, is not a fruit frequently available in Singapore. Thi...

Hainan (meaning South Sea) is the smallest province of the People's Republic of China. It is also, I think, the only province of the cou...

You know you are old when you feel exhausted in your bones. Either I'm old.. or I was crazy to travel like that. On Thursday, I left...

I wish I’m the kind of person who is not disturbed by bad behaviour from others. But I am. And people who do not queue annoy me a lot. ...

Lamb is not my preferred choice of meat. I like chicken and beef.. pork is tolerable but I tend to avoid lamb. It just has this strong smell...

Whenever I go to China, I find my friends and I often complaining about service there. (Not that the service in Singapore is really any b...

Entrance to the Panjiayuan market Pan Jia Yuan Antiques Market (潘家园古董市场) is a fascinating place. When we stayed in Beijing, I liked i...

The entrance to Nan Luo Gu Xiang Nan Luo Gu Xiang (南锣鼓巷) is a small street in Beijing's DongCheng district, near the famous Hou Hai...

I was in Beijing in December and as usual, my very nice ex-colleagues would try to bring me out for nice dinners almost every night. Fo...

I like to eat baos. I tend to prefer the savoury kinds. In Singapore, I like Chicken Bao, or sometimes also called 鸡肉大包. It is the typic...

I know.. I know my phototaking skills suck... and on certain days, especially when I have a raveneous appetite, my photos turn out worse th...

I think Sichuan food can only be described as fiery. The Chinese would describe Sichuan food as 麻辣 (mala), which means spicy hot in a n...

I think that I am easy to satisfy when it comes to good hotpot. But unfortunately, it is not always to either find a good hotpot restaurant,...

For friends following my blog, I have a very good reason for not blogging for the last week. The reason is due to the number 60. For the...

Dadong Restaurant (大董烤鸭店) is undoubtedly my favourite restaurant for Peking Duck. Come to think of it, it could even be my favourite resta...

It’s now 2:30pm, Friday, 7 Aug 2009. Calculating from the time I exited and then re-entered the Beijing International Airport again, I’ve sp...

I’ve written on a previous blog post on how much I dislike travelling on the red-eye flight to Beijing, and won’t ever hope to do it again....

I just came back to Singapore on Saturday (almost Sunday actually, since I arrived just before mid-night). This trip to Beijing, I found o...

I arrived in Beijing on Tuesday morning. Yes, it meant I took the red-eye flight again. Even though after every single time, I tell myself...