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The first time I ate sushi in Takashimaya, I was eighteen and completely broke. My aunt slid a plate of salmon across the counter and told me to eat slowly, because good fish deserves patience. I’ve never forgotten that. Over…
You know the moment. You enter a mall feeling hungry, maybe with friends or family, and the plan seems simple: find somewhere to eat. But ten minutes later, you are still walking. You pass a restaurant that looks decent. Then…
A window seat often feels more desirable before a diner has even looked at the menu. It offers a view, more natural light, and a sense of separation from the rest of the restaurant. In Singapore malls, the view may…
I almost walked past it. Fortune Centre isn’t the kind of building that makes things easy. The corridors are narrow, the lift is slow, and half the units look like they haven’t changed since the nineties. I took it up…
The first time I really understood chirashi don in Singapore, I was sitting alone at a counter in Cuppage Plaza, rain on the old windows outside. I’d ordered it on a whim. What came back was a comforting bowl of…
A meal can taste different depending on the room. The food may be exactly the same, but the experience changes when the lighting is too harsh, the music is too loud, the air-conditioning is too cold, or the table feels…
Some tables are only meant to hold plates. Others, without anyone planning it, begin to hold parts of our lives. They sit beneath bright mall lights, beside glass railings or near the hum of a food court. People come and…
I wasn’t planning to eat at Food Opera Singapore that afternoon. I’d come down Orchard Road for something else, got ambushed by the heat, and ducked into ION just to cool off. The escalator brought me down to B4, and…
The first time I brought a friend from overseas to Orchard Road, we walked for forty minutes and ate nothing. We started at ION Orchard. Then someone said the food looked better at Ngee Ann City. So we crossed over.…
A restaurant does not need to be full to feel crowded. Sometimes half the tables are still empty, yet the space already feels busy. There may be a queue near the entrance, servers moving quickly between tables, plates leaving the…