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A day of great inventions

August 16, 2010 – 8:35 pm

Pho Hoa — For less than $10 a pop, those slurpy rice noodles or vermicelli with grilled/boiled beef or chicken is seriously a steal - and healthy too. Mmm… dinner.
Mini Magnums — Defo beats eating the whole damn thing. It’s a treat my tummy can afford once in a while, especially to replace the lost [...]

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Rachel Allen: Bake!

August 14, 2010 – 11:22 am

When the boyfriend made a trip home last year, he bought me Rachel Allen’s Bake! cookbook — not that you can’t get it in Singapore, but to buy an Irish cook’s book in Ireland makes it all the more authentic, don’t you think?
Anyhow I’d tried a few recipes from her beautiful collection of recipes, including [...]

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Wingin’ it

August 10, 2010 – 9:01 am

Sunday was spent pretty much on my ass and stuffing my face silly, thanks to Damo’s (two weeks’ early) leavin’ do. Thankfully a 15.5k run in the A.M. helped create a slight calorie-deficit to begin the day with…
2230h: We finally leave Handle Bar for home, after $1,100 spent on booze, wings and chips.

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N.Y.D.C? More like S.H.I.T.

July 30, 2010 – 1:42 pm

Craving for a good salad dinner, we headed to the newly-renovated N.Y.D.C. at Holland Village last night. I had eaten their Farmboy Chicken Salad — a monstrous serving of greens plus other delicious bits — a few times before, prior to the restaurant’s makeover. So I figured it would be the best bet to feed [...]

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Everything with fries

March 11, 2010 – 11:21 am

Or make that lies, as a friend suggested. I’m talking about the spanking new burger place at Holland Village, opened about a week ago, taking over the tapas place (near Breko). I believe there’s another outlet somewhere on the island…
So Damian and I were both actually pretty excited to have my birthday dinner there. We’re [...]

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