As we walked home after dinner last night, we came across Today’s Special on one of the eateries along Joo Chiat Place. HY and I felt that perhaps the guy didn’t know how to write the character for ‘feet’ in Chinese. Is there such a thing as chu1 shou3 even? Are pig hands Singapore’s [...]
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Our Lives As Filling Stations
Monday, July 12, 2010
Oh, but it is dirty! – this little filling station, oil-soaked, oil-permeated to a disturbing, over-all black translucency. Be careful with that match! Father wears a dirty, oil-soaked monkey suit that cuts him under the arms, and several quick and saucy and greasy sons assist him (it’s a family filling station), all quite thoroughly dirty. [...]
Offbeat places to eat
Friday, June 25, 2010
Sometimes we wander around and when we least expect it, something like this pops up. Is this in your neighborhood? You lucky cow. It’s like somebody’s house selling some food! Turn into Jalan Tua Kong in Siglap (nestled among some old shophouses and terraced houses) and when you see a corner coffee shop, walk on [...]
Snaked
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
More than once have people approached our landlord, because they wonder if there could be a chance we give up our store at 93 Club Street. First there was a bookseller (not any on Club Street!), and today there is a rather well-known figure whose father has come up and told of how many concessions [...]
Mindset for a scone and coffee
Friday, March 12, 2010
I found a good place recently! Jones The Grocer at Mandarin Gallery serves up no-butter scones for your coffee to come all the more orgasmic. Actually all I really wanted to say is there is a tucked-away corner in the chatter of Orchard Road/Singapore at this cafe. High ceilings, unobtrusive, can we hide here during [...]
