Category Archives: Singapore

Handmade Dumplings

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You thought I made them right!! ^^

Anyway, before coming to Asia, my perception of Asian food was limited to sushi, some soup, but mostly dumplings. So imagine how happy I was when I went to this restaurant for lunch yesterday: Din Tai Fung

I love dumplings and this place make handsome handmade dumplings, which is kind of cool…check it out below.

The menu is in Chinese, and the restaurant proposes a lot of dishes. Lucky enough I have Mandarin-speaking colleagues, hence we tried plenty of dishes, but below are my most preferred: Simple basic dumplings.

Steamed Pork Buns, and Steamed Crab Meat & Pork Dumplings

These were really tasty; the one on the back is made of a doughnut type of mixture with meat inside. This, accompanied with spicy sauce, and some vegetables was delicious. Smallest dumplings (on the front) were very fragile lol. They contained some sauce in the bottom, so one needed to be careful when taking one.

Overall it was a great experience having lunch there, it’s definitely a must go if you’re in town. This is their website: www.dintaifung.com.sg

Crime Alert

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CRIME ALERT in Singapore….someone stole a bicycle!! haha

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Yes, in Singapore it’s a big deal; indeed, crime here is apparently one of the lowest in the world, at the point of having alert sign even for theft of bicycle. lol

To be fair though, I took that picture in a very posh area, but still! đŸ™‚

Hock Lam Beef

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Hock Lam Beef is a restaurant to check in Singapore; indeed, the place is apparently a century old which for a country only 49 years old is quite amazing!!

Anyway I went there last week to check their famous dish: teachew beef kway teow. It is basically a beef broth with a choice of noodle and beef served with a soup or dry.

My choice resulted to this…

Not bad huh!! Overall the dish was good, but no biggie. What I liked most was the beef; it included tender, fat, and chewy slices. I had to chew it for a good five min before swallowing it, I loved it. haha

One last thing though, for a place that old I would have expect some sort of history/legacy spirit in their decoration, service, or else. But none of that, I thought it was disappointing.

The Fine City

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Singapore is a city that value efficiency and quick access to general information (well, in most cases). One easy example is for instance to know in advance the fine you’ll receive if you break the law.

Yes correct you’ll see these anywhere near subway stations. (It’s only in the subway…obviously)

At least you don’t have to check on Google or anything, you know right away that bringing gas or fuel in a subway will give you a fine of S$5,000. lol

FYI jaywalking is S$500, stealing wi-fi (or more like trying to get a free network on the street) is considered “hacking” and you could expect a S$5000 fine. There are some other good ones, but you get the idea I think.

I mean, truth to be said, it’s still a fine place to live. I have jaywalked, chew a gum, stolen wi-fi, and as you witness I am still very much alive and not broke yet. đŸ™‚