The Hungry Bunny

We're house-hunting. It's a love-hate thing for us, this whole house-hunting process. We love the excitement of it all...the anticipation of entering yet another house, wondering if we'd be hit with the "love bug". Yes, we're using the whole "gut feeling" method of choosing our home. But we hate the tiresome search for the "perfect one". Because buying a home is like a marriage, i.e. you gotta really really REALLY love it, and cannot settle for second best (because you'd end up wondering about the love-of-your-life for the rest of your life). Most of our weekends are filled with viewing appointments, so we're up real early (early for me anyways because I spend most weekends sleeping in till mid-afternoon!). Our current lifestyle is just perfect to fit in brunch. That'll probably explain the prevalence of upcoming brunch-centric posts.  While most brunch places in Singapore are frequented by and filled with pretentious fops, we...

To celebrate CC's birthday (it's a super duper belated celebration coz he was stuck in a trial and intermittently away on several holidays during his birthday month), Beeps, the Hubs and I brought him out to The White Rabbit for dinner. I've only ever been here once, for a friend's wedding, and been hankering to try the ala carte menu but never really got around to it. Stepping into the restaurant was already an experience in itself. What used to be a church was lovingly restored into a dining cum watering hole. A bit sacrilegious, I suppose, to the conservatively religious, but who cares! I love the Victorian architecture of the place. Dramatic high arched ceilings, intricately stained glass windows, romantic lowlights and the heavy use of rustic wooden furniture, the restaurant just charms with its old-world romance. In line with the decor, the food was just awesome. This is definitely going on our "Best of 2012" lists. Everything was just masterfully e...

Happy mid-Autumn festival everyone! We celebrated the Chinese festival by going out for a nice family meal at Lei Garden, one of our favourite, super reliable, fail-safe restaurants for authentic, exquisite Cantonese food. I have yet to bring a guest here and not get a rave review. While we're on the topic of Chinese festivals, it's nice that a lot of my friends still take the opportunity during notable Chinese festivals to gather with families/friends to celebrate each festival. Whoever said that tradition is lost on today's generation?! We may have bastardized the various festivals in a way, but shouldn't we still get some credit for celebrating our culture? I suppose that our method of modernizing the various Chinese festivals is a personalized way of commemorating each festival. The Braised "Lo Han" Vegetables ($28) was a wonderful medley of textures and nuanced flavour. The vegetarian dish has the capacity of being incredibly boring and ho-hum but...

I know it may seem like that we don't eat hawker food because of the lack of blog posts thereof. But au contraire, I eat hawker food a lot of the time. I love hawker food! It's just that I usually dabao (i.e. takeaway) hawker food to enjoy in the air-conditioned comfort of my home, and because food that's packed for takeaway doesn't quite look as good as its freshly plated state, I don't take pictures or blog about it (btw, that's the reason why Buko Nero, one of my fave restaurants, doesn't allow photos to be taken of their food...no QC). But, every once a while, I will brave the heat and sit down for a full meal at a hawker centre. We were recently with Kang at Alexandra Village to hunt down some long-lost food stall to satisfy his current claypot rice craze.  Tai Liok Claypot Chicken Rice is one of the purveyors of claypot rice. They used to be situated at the second floor of the now derelict margaret drive hawker centre....

Have I mentioned before that I hate eating at food courts? I do. In fact, I try to avoid them as much as possible. The stuff offered at food courts are usually sub-par but cost twice as much as their hawker centre counterparts. Total waste of calories and total waste of money. But, eating is a communal thing and sometimes, you gotta go with where the pack wants to go. So, when my friends suggested heading to the food court at Vivocity, I tagged along. Ah well, it's sometimes the company you enjoy than the food you eat, isn't it? I thought sticking to something safe like fish soup would do the trick, and besides, this stall looked like it had quite the queue. Boy was I wrong. The Fish Soup ($4.50), with just a handful of fish slices (4-5 of them thin ones), was incredibly miserly and miserable a portion. The soup was practically an MSG-bomb and the fish so treated with milk (to remove any fishy odour) that there were unappetiz...

PS Cafe is one of those places I never really understood the fuss about. I always hear friends rave about their food and how amazing it is, but, to be honest, having dined there a couple of times, I just don't geddit. Maybe it's how the restaurant seems to attract a certain crowd, the type that loves to be seen dining in a place like this. Maybe that's what contributes to the pretentiousness of the place. It doesn't help that tables are situated so darn close to each other I can easily overhear the conversations of diners seated 2 tables away. Maybe the hype is why I'm rather unimpressed with the food. It just seems overrated. Mind you, the food isn't bad, but it is only alright and run-of-the-mill, and certainly not noteworthy. No major complains but nothing amazing either. We were in the vicinity looking at furniture and decided to stop by for an early dinner. Even at the odd hour of 4 plus in the mid-afternoon on a weekend, we had to wait about 15 minutes ...

Shann was the first friend I made at the firm, and although she's left the firm some time ago, I make it a point to keep in touch. It was her birthday recently and both Beeps and I thought we'd bring her out for a celebratory treat somewhere nice. We decided on Senso for its yummy food and even yummmier ambience. Despite numerous fine-dining restaurants popping up for business every other week in the CBD area, Senso has managed to remain relevant by consistently serving up authentically good Italian food with exquisite plating and generous portions. Senso's Executive Set Lunch ($38++) is one of the most affordable and value-for-money set lunches around, especially in light of the fact that the much-lauded fine-dining restaurant caters to a well-heeled clientele (read: their prices are usually quite "cha-ching" so dining here at below $50 per pax is really very worthwhile).  You get 3 whole courses and finish off with a coffee or tea, ver...