I’m playing catch up as I’ve abandoned my blog for months now since we moved to Singapore and have just had several hours straight to sit down at my desk to blog. Although we went back to Bali in January of this year for a long weekend (haven’t been since we left in March 2012), …
What better way to make my first blog post on Singapore about the Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants 2014. Held at the Capella Singapore yesterday evening, the chef-studded event brought together food-lovers and restaurateurs from all over Asia to witness the announcement of this year’s top 50 restaurants in Asia. NAHM, Bangkok NARISAWA, Tokyo (San Pellegrino …
There’s a very good reason why my blog has been abandoned lately. First, lightning hit the phone lines on my street (honestly, it’s one of those weird island things) and we haven’t had a working phone line or Internet for the last two weeks and still don’t until now. Second, we are leaving Bali after our …
After our fruitful morning exploring Ubud, we stopped by the Como Shambhala Estate’s sister property Uma Ubud for a quiet lunch a deux since there was no one else at the restaurant that day so we had whole place to ourselves. The open-air restaurant is an all-white bale right beside a large Koi pond and …
Last week, we went up to Ubud to visit our friends Marcello and Michi at Gaya Ceramics and to have a look at their sale items to add to our growing collection of Gaya plates and platters. After an hour spent looking through their shelves, we went to have a coffee at Cafe Seniman which I had …
When a new restaurant opens in quiet Sanur, there’s always a buzz as this sleepy part of Bali is filled with restaurants yet very few are worth going to. Minami in Ubud is where people go for refined Japanese cuisine. I had never had a chance to visit the Ubud outpost so when I heard …
A few months back, we went to pick up our 10-year old from a sleepover in Seminyak and met up with him at Mojo’s Flying Burritos. It’s down an alley off Petitenget and is really just an open-air shack at the side of the road. You can’t miss it with it’s brightly painted walls and …
Travels with a Gourmet 