I’m so excited to share with you my latest product – kombucha! Well…technically speaking, it isn’t new since I have been teaching people how to make booch since last year. However, I’m now ready to do retail and I need your help. I have a few flavours of kombucha going and I would like to give them some catchy names instead of the usual “Ginger Lemon” or something of those sorts. If you checked out kombucha.thewellnessinsider.sg, you’ll realise that my Ginger Turmeric Kombucha is actually named “Bye Bye Flu”. You get the drift. Here’s YOUR chance to help me come up with...
11/03/201811/12/2020
Asia’s First Nutritional Therapeutic Fine Dining Frunatic
I was recently invited to Frunatic, a 30-seater fine dining restaurant located in Palais Renaissance, for a nutritional therapeutic 8-course meal that was aptly named “Beautifying & Detoxifying” (S$108.80). Their philosophy is to use nutrition to help maintain, restore and improve the health of all individuals. Stepping into Frunatic, I must say that I do like their modern contemporary design which borders on a slight minimalistic Nordic feel. Launched late last year, Frunatic is the fruition (all puns intended) of 5 years of research and development. Founder of Frunatic, Mr Jason Fong, had invested over S$7 million into the R&D...
04/03/201811/12/2020
Healthy Breakfast Smoothies
I’ve been making smoothies for breakfast recently thanks to my brother who started it all. I must say that it really is a healthy and quick way to get all the essential nutrients into one meal. Best part? It really fills me up till lunch. For the full recipes, you can read it here. Above is my “All Rounder” as described in the article on The Wellness Insider, while below is the Berry Power. I do highly recommend you try these breakfast smoothies out and if you don’t have all the powders, do note that they can always be substituted...
22/02/201811/12/2020
Patbingsoo Singapore
With the Korean wave, they have brought to us one of their desserts – Patbingsoo. Honestly, this is not very new. We have Ice Kachang in Singapore and kakigori in Japan. We humans seem to like to put fruit, nuts, syrup and ice cream on a bed of ice. Above and below is their Sinsa Patbingsoo (S$17.90++) which has half a cantaloupe aka rock melon, pat (Korean for red bean), cornflakes, nata de coco and vanilla ice cream on milky shaven ice. You have to find someone to share this bingsoo with because it’s huge. I’ve eaten this 3 times and...
11/02/201811/12/2020
Huge Cockles Anyone?
Went to Johor Bahru with a few friends for a quick day trip to get our Chinese New Year goodies and for dinner, we decided to go and have some fresh cockles after one of my friends told us about how huge they were. Yes…there were cockles that were GINORMOUS and looked slightly vulgar (LOL) but we ended up choosing what we called the ‘medium’ sized ones. They were good…no wonder my friend kept asking us whether one plate was enough. It was most certainly not enough and I think we will go back soon to try out the larger...
23/01/201811/12/2020
Grilled Salmon Head with Sweet Potato Mash and Broccoli
This is not the first time you’re seeing a salmon head here as I’ve cooked a salmon shioyaki before. The difference is that Meidi-ya now knows that we love to eat the salmon heads too and have increased the price from $1.50 for half a head to $4 for a full salmon head. Oh well….it’s still cheap. The Grilled Salmon Head part is really easy – salt it and bake or grill it for 10-15 minutes. I used frozen broccoli here so I did grill my vegetables together with the fish with a bit of salt and sesame oil for...
10/01/201811/12/2020
Review – COMO Cuisine at Dempsey
I was invited to the media launch of a new supplement in Singapore – Tru Niagen, which was held at COMO Cuisine at Dempsey. But since this is my food blog, I’ll be reviewing the food part of whole event while I’ll blog about the supplement in my lifestyle blog www.melfann.com. Located at 18A Dempsey Road, COMO is relatively conveniently located near the main Dempsey Road, further past Huber’s Butchery. It’s nestled among lush greenery and is unexpectedly welcoming once you’ve entered the main entrance. They do have a private room that sits about 20 pax and that was where...
06/01/201811/12/2020
Review – Suntory’s Colourless Premium Morning Tea
Don’t know about you but my initial thought when I heard about this colourless tea was that it was just water with lots of artificial colouring. The fact that it looks like water but tastes like milk tea is quite mind boggling. Hence, it was really intriguing when I read the ingredientslist and it was stated in both English and Japanese as such: Natural mineral water sugar hi-fructose corn syrup maltooligosaccharide lactose tea salt mint extract flavouring magnesium chloride caffeine antioxidant (vitamin C) acidulate (containing milk component) Suntory even came up with a video to explain how their colourless tea...
05/01/201811/12/2020
Lazy Egg Croissant
I woke up one day with the craving for scrambled eggs stuffed into a croissant and I think this was probably influenced by the fact that my brother had bought a couple of boxes of pastries and a couple of them were croissants! Since I no longer have a helper, and I’m also the household’s unofficial dishwasher, I decided to scramble my eggs the laziest of ways – using the microwave. This ensures that you only have 1 bowl and 1 plate to wash up while still enjoying fluffy eggs in buttery pastry. What you need:2 eggs1/4 cup milktiny bit...
27/12/201711/12/2020
Review – High Tea at Fullerton Bay’s The Landing Point
Met up with some ex-colleagues over high-tea at Fullerton Bay Hotel’s The Landing Point. Fullerton Bay has 2 restaurants that offer high tea: The Landing Point as well as The Clifford Pier. If you prefer local fare, then head onto The Clifford Pier. But if you want something more traditional, then The Landing Point is the place for you. Check out the view from outside! However, we did move inside later because it started drizzling and we wanted to listen to the pianist too. At S$45++ per person, the High Tea spread includes free flow of TWG teas and you...