Chin Mee Chin Confectionery

Probably the last of its kind left in Singapore, Chin Mee Chin Confectionery or CMC as it is popularly called in Katong is a old style Hainanese coffee shop serving beverages and bread served the traditional way.   Inside the 2 old style glass cabinets are trays of freshly baked buns Authentic custard tarts. And…

Street Food of Tokyo

Tokyo was not some place where we expected to find street food but we did came across some gems. Like while stumbling around in Shunjuku one night, we found this back alley where there were a whole lot of small little outlet selling Yakitori and noodles. These are really small outlet like this one here…

Mooncake Index 2012

Somehow I missed compiling last year’s mooncake index. What happened? I can’t seem to remember why. Anyway, this year economy is supposed to be better which usually means that come this time of the year I will get a lot of moon cakes from vendors but interestingly, this year the number actually drop.  Maybe it…

Sunnyhills Pineapple Cake

Was reading the Sunday papers on Tuesday and came across this review of the Sunnyhills Pineapple cakes. Pineapple tart is something I must have during CNY and this year unfortunately my lobang for the Le Cafe golf ball pineapple tart is no more. So I was pretty keen to try this import from Taiwan until…

Mooncake Index 2011

It’s that time of the year for the Mooncake Index, first stated in 2007. For the life of me, I can’t remember why there wasn’t one last year. Maybe I didn’t get any moon cakes? Not very likely though. Anyway, the MCI reflects the state of my expenditure and the business given out and the…

Father’s Day Cake

The Princess baked this Coffee cake for Father’s day. 

Chocolate Overload!

What more can a chocolate craving mad guy ask for? Imagine a full fudge chocolate cake with Kit Kat around its side and M&M as toppings. It’s enough to make a grown man weep! And I gonna weep cos it was in my house and I didn’t even get to touch it:(. The Princess made this absolutely…

The Princess’ Creation

The Princess latest creation: First a layer of butter cake Next top it up with cream and strawberries Add more layer on top Of course must have the chocolate And finally throw on more strawberries and volia: Of course, the proof of the pudding er cake is in the eating, and in this case, speaking…

Presenting the Princess’ Collections

The Princess has continued with her now almost weekly baking and these are the output. (Proud father must show off a bit leh….) Shepherd Pie. We finished it all off so it passed the test This one dunno what it is. A bit like a biscuit with chocolate inside. Smell nice but a bit too…

Cup Cakes

M’s boss gave this box of beautiful cupcakes. Cupcakes, most of the time, are nice to look at but really not that great to eat cause of the icing sugars on top but these lot are home make and not bad at all.