Before leaving for Singapore, I read at several places about a restaurant called Candlenut that serves Peranakan style food, sort of meaning Singaporean/Malay and some extent Indonesian food influenced and fusioned with the food of Chinese migrants. Straits-Chinese Candlenut themselves call it. They also have a Michelin star, naturally I had to pay Candlenut a… Continue reading Great lunch at Candlenut, Singapore
Month: December 2017
Dinner at Din Tai Fung Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
Whenever I am in a city with a branch of Taiwanese chain Din Tai Fung, I tend to go there for a fix of one of my favourite dishes in the world – the famous soup dumpling, xiao long bao. Din Tai Fung’s Marina Bay Sands branch is one of the best I have visited… Continue reading Dinner at Din Tai Fung Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
Hello, Singapore!
After a longish trip to Singapore with the new semi-nonstop (you need to disembark in Moscow but then continue on the same plane) route with Singapore Airlines, we’re now in the “Lion City”, one of my favourite food cities in the world. It’s my third visit which is a first for me outside of Europe.… Continue reading Hello, Singapore!