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Rockin' the hood
It's been a while since H-man was last seen in Hong Kong, and even though I've been able to meet up with him in Tokyo for the last couple of years, it certainly been a long time since he, Rice, and I...
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One-star food, zero-star service
I was looking for a lunch spot near the office, and suddenly realized that I haven't had dim sum on a weekend in a long time. The Boss (波士廳) is one of the places nearby with pretty good food, so I...
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Korean with a twist
Hello Kitty and I were visiting My Favorite Cousin and Wolfie after an kiddie birthday party, and figured we should go out for a bite to eat. Since there wasn't much that was interesting in her neck...
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Vegetarian wine dinner
After being treated to a fantastic lineup of 100-point wines last month, it was now time for the second MNSC tasting of the year. This year we are doing things slightly out of order, and Curry was...
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VIP goose
I was supposed to be a good boy at lunch today, grabbing something filling yet low on the calorie count - like a vegetarian pasta or something. But my staff seemed to want to have lunch with me, and...
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No mas Paloma
Dinner with No Fish always involve finding a place which neither of us have been to. For the last few months that job was made easy thanks to the South China Morning Post, as I was a guest contributor...
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Summer menu
L was in town again, and made another request to go visit the private dining facility I've been very fond of. Unlike her previous visits, this time there was enough advance notice so that we could...
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Seven at six
It's been a year, and the Locusts are back in town. As usual we had a discussion about which new restaurant they would like to check out, and not surprisingly Neighborhood was the choice was seemed...
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Annual Singapore excursion day 1: choking but happy
I'm back in Singapore for an annual conference, and of course I took the opportunity to spend a little more time and hang with my friends. Oh, and to eat, of course... At the top of my list is, of...
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Annual Singapore trip day 2: old and new friends for breakfast
Picking out where to eat on short trips is a real pain in the ass. There are simply too many things I wanna eat, with limited time and stomach space. So it is with planning for my breakfasts....
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Annual Singapore trip day 2: celebrity restaurant 1
I'm having dinner with L again just a week after seeing her in Hong Kong. We had discussed going to a local crab restaurant we both used to like, but that would require a few more mouths and we would...
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Annual Singapore trip day 3: celebrity restaurant 2
Lunchtime at the day of the conference, and the boss and I had no interest to sit through a 2-hour long lunch while listening to some guy drone on about the economy. So we decided to stroll along the...
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Annual Singapore trip day 3: JAAN sans André
Our time at the conference over, it was now time to eat. I have a wonderful boss who knows of my passion for food and wine, and he very kindly asked me to book dinner "somewhere nice" tonight. With...
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Four decades of Camille Giroud
With another auction coming up, Sotheby's has once again very kindly extended an invitation for me to attend a dinner - this time featuring the wines from Maison Camille Giroud. There is a consignment...
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More starry goose
I got a call out of the blue from Fergie the Wommer, asking me if I was free for lunch. After vetoing his choice of burger joint, we decided to hit Ya Lok (一樂燒鵝) for a quick one. The two of us decided...
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Eating Hello Kitty
Believe it or not, lunch today was the most highly-anticipated meal in the entire last month. No, that honor did not belong to my dinner at JAAN, ranked #11 in Asia's 50 Best Restaurants for 2015, nor...
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The big ass from Paris
I was pretty ecstatic about a year ago when I heard about Dalloyau opening in Hong Kong. Dalloyau has been my tea salon of choice in Paris for 20 years, and when I first moved to Hong Kong 20 years...
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Dark side of the Moon
I have never found occasion to visit the Kowloon branch of Fook Lam Moon (福臨門), choosing always to patronize the "main branch" in Wanchai. However, I found myself on the Dark Side today when Hello...
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Tapas on a terrace
I'm watching a movie tonight at a theatre in The One, and figured I'd use the opportunity to check out one of the restaurants here. In all the years it has been open, I've only eaten in The One once....
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Set menu FAIL
One of our service providers very kindly took us out for lunch today at The Boss (波士廳) - a restaurant whose food I am rather fond of. Given that this is a business lunch, it wasn't at all surprising...
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