Food Japan 2019 Our recent visit to Food Japan 2019 at Singapore’s Suntec City Convention Centre was an eye-opening experience for us. This large ASEAN trade event features over 200 exhibitors across 40 Japanese prefectures. These exhibitors were there to showcase new-to-market and new-to-Singapore products. The trade show tasted for 3 days from 31 October to 2 November 2019. We checked out the new-to-market Japanese brands across the show floor and discovered some of the new market trends in Japanese F&B. And in this post, we excited to share with you some of the insights we have gathered through this trade show. 1. Enjoy the exotic fish produce from Japan…
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Gardens by The Bay is radiating with Rhododendrons and a new attraction!
When I was studying in Canada in the Summer, I was literally surrounded by beautiful and vibrant-looking flowers everywhere. So I envy the Canadians for being about to enjoy looking at beautiful blooms wherever they go. And that was 10 years ago, when Singapore was just starting to incorporate more greenery in the city. A few years fast forward, we welcomed Gardens by the Bay and we get to be surrounded by a variety blooms throughout the year. We are definitely limited by the seasons. And this season, they are bringing you a new floral display, Rhododendron Radiance, at the Flower Dome. Besides changing out the seasonal floral display, you…
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Singapore Night Fest 2019: Walking Down Memory Lane
I don’t think I’ve ever missed the Singapore Night Festival (SNF) since I’ve started dating. This year, SNF returns for its 12th edition with better showcases, programmes and crowd control management. In fact, I really enjoyed myself in this year’s SNF as the atmosphere was great. In addition, they have gone above and beyond with their light projections on the museums. Spanned across 2 weekends This year, the Singapore Night Festival was spanned across two weekends. I managed to drop by on the second weekend which is, sadly, the last day of SNF. Since this year is Singapore’s bicentennial year, I felt that they have invested more effort and time…
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Guo Pei X ACM ​: How Chinese Art and Couture can come together
I love hanging out at Museums and some of the best museums I’ve visited is the Asian Civilisation Museum(ACM). It kind of grows on you as you learn more about the story behind each artefact and how each exhibit strives to tell a story. There is always a reason to head back to the same museum over and over again especially when they held special exhibitions that lasted for a limited period of time. In fact, ACM’s recent special exhibit, Guo Pei: Chinese Art and Couture is one that you must not miss especially if you are into fashion art and sewing. Ever since I am into sewing and tailoring,…
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National Day Parade 2019: NDP Show Highlights
Our National’s Birthday is coming and one of the major events we can look forward to is our annual National Day Parade (NDP show) and National Day holiday. Before the actual parade on 9 August, there are several preview-cum-rehearsal shows open to the public. However, it is not easy to attain tickets to the NDP show. The tickets are free but we have to ballot for it. I think I only attended 3 NDP shows (including this year’s NDP) in my life so far. We balloted for tickets as a family every year but we were not selected. I was fortunate to be able to catch their second rehearsal show…
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This Hotel Group has launched its own house label of beer and wines
There are not many hotels across the world have their own house label of beers and wines. But here in Singapore, this hotel group has decided to launch its own beers and house pours. Just a couple of days ago, Millennium Hotels and Resorts (MHR) launched their own house label of beer and wine called M Brew and M Wines respectively. Both of their speciality beer and wine labels are exclusively available across all the six Millennium hotels in Singapore. M Brew M Brew is proudly brewed by Singapore’s craft brewery, Archipelago Brewery. This award-winning craft brewery is well known for their creativity and wittiness in naming their craft beers. The essence of Singapore is…
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The Bicentennial Experience at Fort Canning Hill: What to expect there?
If you did not already know, Singapore marks its bicentennial this year. It has been almost 200 years ago since Sir Stamford Raffles came to our shores. The Singapore’s bicentennial experience revolves around the theme of Singapore’s pre-colonial and colonial history. It is indeed a special year for Singaporeans but I didn’t sense the hype it deserves. The public interest generated among Singaporeans is pale in comparison to Singapore’s grand SG50 celebration in 2015. But to me, it is rather exciting and intriguing to dig up our past and to re-examine our history textbooks on the mythical story of Sang Nila Utama. Our history plays a huge part in shaping…
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7 Things You Didn’t Know About Tulips
Thanks to Gardens by the Bay, Singaporeans are able to witness tulips blooming across the flower field at The Flower Dome. It has been a yearly affair for me to visit their annual Tulipmania in the months of April and May to catch a glimpse of these beautiful blooms. But during each visit, I constantly found myself taking photos of the tulips without truly appreciating this spring-blooming flowers. There were signages planted throughout the flower field with a general description of the flower and scientific name printed on it. However, these descriptions did not really stuck with me or help me understand more about the plant. And I find that…
