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Good Evening Saigon

Not Quite Nigella — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:00:56 +0000

So where was I? Oh yes I was in Ho Chi Minh City seeing the sights and eating the food. The weather was hot and sticky and I was in a state of constant fullness with all of the food that we were eating. But complain? You won’t hear a peep of it from me! [...]

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Good Morning Vietnam!

Not Quite Nigella — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:00:33 +0000

Sometimes you just get hints that you’ll like a country. For example, I knew that I’d like Vietnam when I learnt that the lunch break in that country lasts for two hours and that includes nap time. I should add that I also learned the hardest way that saying the word “Yummm” apparently that means [...]

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Pu Tien Restaurant & Island Creamery, Singapore

Not Quite Nigella — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 18:00:43 +0000

“Auntie, would you like to try some food?” a voice says to me. I swing my head around and look at him with a look that says “Are you talking to me?” This was the first time in my life that I have been called Auntie and it was during my Singapore visit. And even [...]

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Being Alice in Singapore

Not Quite Nigella — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:00:14 +0000

White Rabbit Alice is Wonderland is a favourite tale of mine, the surreal tale of the heroine and her friends have always struck a chord with me. And when we were told that there was a restaurant in Singapore called White Rabbit which was named after Alice in Wonderland, well what’s a girl to do [...]

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Eating Stingray at Sin Huat & Haji Lane, Singapore

Not Quite Nigella — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 19:00:32 +0000

Haji Lane Pendants from Threadbare & Squirrel I’ve often thought that if I could do anything at an Olympic level, it would be shopping. I’m certainly not qualified or gifted with the physical ability to do anything else. So when there is actual shopping time worked into a travel itinerary I am ecstatic. To me, [...]

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Tippling Club & 2am: Dessertbar, Singapore

Not Quite Nigella — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 19:00:12 +0000

“We have between 12 to 18 amuses which we send out to guests” chef Ryan Clift of Singapore’s Tippling Club and former head chef of Melbourne’s Vue de Monde says. He’s only half joking. We’re somewhere in between the seven complimentary amuses bouches that have come out to us (and these are typical of what a diner [...]

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Singapore Fling: The Local’s Guide To Singapore’s Best Food

Not Quite Nigella — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 19:00:43 +0000

In my last Singapore post I showed you about the high end of Singapore. And although it has been a good 15 years since my last visit before that we used to visit a lot. My mother is Singaporean and every few years we’d get on a plane to visit my aunt, uncles and countless [...]

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Divine Wonderland & Sarong, Bali, Indonesia

Not Quite Nigella — Thu, 12 May 2011 19:00:44 +0000

Welcome to Alice in Wonderland… When you think of Bali, you may think of cornrows, humidity and Australian tourists. You don’t really think of Alice In Wonderland. But when the lovely local blogger Sinead from Airy Fairy Cupcakess told me about Divine Wonderland, an Alice in Wonderland themed restaurant, I knew I had to pay it [...]

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A Progressive Dinner Across Blue Water Cafe and West, Vancouver, Canada

Not Quite Nigella — Sat, 07 May 2011 19:00:14 +0000

My dear lovelies! Tonight we are crossing the wild plains. Actually we’re crossing from East to West and then from one end of town to another in a progressive dinner across two vastly different Vancouver restaurants! The first Blue Water Cafe + Raw Bar in Vancouver’s vibrant Yaletown district. I notice people are young and [...]

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Waku Ghin by Tetsuya, Singapore

Not Quite Nigella — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 18:00:15 +0000

I once dated a guy who halfway through our relationship was grumbling about having taken me to the best restaurants in Sydney and the expense that I had incurred on his credit card. “I should have started in the mid price range and then I could have worked my way up to the top. Now [...]

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