food, food and more food

Singaporeans are well fed folks. They love their food, love trying new places, love the satisfaction of finding good and cheap eats. For the foodies at heart who happen to be bloggers as well, they blog and take photos about it to share with other Singaporean foodies via the world wide web.

this recent surge in food bloggers is great. If you want to try something new, just hop online to one of their blogs and you will find all sorts of restaurants reviewed depending on whose blog you go to. Some focus on cheap Singapore fare, like hawker centers, coffeeshops etc. while others are more what we call 'atas' in Malay, with their almost daily entries about the newest restaurant in Singapore, the best place for Italian, brunch, ambience, chilling out, kids friendly, tea selections, English tea with scones and cake, buffets etc. The lists goes on and on...

What's more, if you are craving for say, a particular food and you are 'gian' to try a new place instead of going back to your usual kopitiam downstairs or your usual Western restaurant, just go to the blogger's categories and let your eyes and your taste buds and salivation test lead you to a tried and tested scrumptious meal.

Unfortunately, I'm not going to be posting their blog links here but i'm pretty sure you can look for them by just googling and using the right key terms. say for example, food reviews + singapore + blogspot How do i know? Because I have been done it before!

Yes, i admit the Tan family and the Doc are benefiters. These passionate bloggers, who love to write, eat and very importantly take photos with good cameras (must have micro function) have made it easier for us to try out new places with better satisfaction.. more hits and fewer misses. Even before the era of blogging, we have been a family to try new places based on recommendations by word of mouth or via the media or credit card promotions. While these methods of knowing still remains the general means for the older folk in the family, the younger folk have embraced the power of food blogging, especially one Tan in particular (not me).

Since I'm not exactly a foodie (i still am in comparison to others but not as great as the other extreme) I dont really find joy in reading them unless a reasons calls for it. Reading these blogs actually makes me hungry and I dont wish for that..

But since I like to eat at new places and bring the Doc to interesting places on weekends for his 'da chi da he' (translation: big eat big drink) i admit i have been 'leeching' / 'sponging' off this Tan's wealth of information on good places to eat for the past few weeks and over-indulging in rich food.

With Chris and Jilyn, I went to The White Rabbit, My sis and the Doc to Riders Cafe, the Doc to Tampopo, and with all the above to Persimmon Cafe. All these were done in the span of 2 weeks so you can imagine how much rich food i have eaten considering that the one person who went for all 4 was ME!

1) The sign just at the bend before entering into Riders Cafe Carpark

2) The entrance

3) The Doc's Full Breakfast /Brunch 4) Pancakes (very yummy)

5) Chris & Jilyn at Persimmon

6) Lovely table for 20 at Persimmon with orange chairs. We actually saw Nadya Hutagalung using this table for her jewelery sale while we were there... we all declared her to be a beauty! 7) The Doc and I - being silly

8) My sis , looking extremely pleased and happy after her Standard Chartered Run and of course her pasta dish in front of her.
9) One of the many dishes we had (it's an ala carte buffet), laksa pesto pasta

Sakae Sushi with mom and sis though not from the food blogs, was another meal that i would consider indulgence.

My mom and my sis's spontaneous pose as we walked to Big Splash via the underpass.

Decisions decisions...

same thing here.. decisions decisions
one of the sides i picked up from the conveyor (so so only)

But well, it's all done.. the food has been eaten, taste buds have been tingled and money has been spent. The company that i went with for all the above enjoyed themselves tremendously so I would say, its a good cause!

note from gracie-buddy: the other photos are in my compact camera so it'll come soon.. Akan datang!