Gastronaut

I’ll make no bones about it: National Service was kick-ass tough. Oftentimes you prayed you were somewhere else…or dead. But today, with 3...

Honestly speaking, I don’t really enjoy baking. Why? Because baking requires too much discipline and precision: ingredients and measur...

I remember the 70s as the decade Western pop culture swept into Singapore like a monster tsunami. Education standards had been on a contin...

Think Asian food, and Thai is definitely one of the cuisines that come to mind. Indeed, in the past 30 years or so, Thai ...

I love claypot chicken rice. The multi-layers of satisfaction that a good one brings to me are hard to describe…but I’ll try. Details ma...

I first met Sandy in 2003. We were collaborating on a publishing project, one that brought us to Shanghai, Malaysia, and to Hong Kong before...

It’s been said so often, it’s become a tired old cliché. But I’ll say it again…we in South East Asia are spoilt for choice when it comes to ...