I’m beginning to better understand wine after my WSET course, but the finer points of whisky eludes me. I occasionally use it for my Hojicha Whisky Tiramisu recipe, and did enjoy drinking that bottle of Monkey Shoulder neat while we were in Batam, which I gotta say, was easy to drink and pretty incredible for the price point. A whisky fair isn’t something that I would have normally signed up for, but I’m glad that I...

Once or twice a year, we take a day off and head off to Johor Bahru to unwind. I have a selected list of restaurants that I really really like, but this time around, we decided to try several new recommendations. As usual, the queue at the border was non-existent on a weekday at 7am (I guess nobody was quite as bo liao as we are), and we made across the border bright and early for breakfast at Ah Soon Ba Kut Teh. The charcoal-cooked BKT was...

I’ve recently been getting really into slice-of-life genre. Have anyone watched Frieren: Beyond Journey's End? I binged on the show and caught up on the manga within days. The sleeper-hit The Makanai was a little too placid for my taste, but I started listening to the soundtrack whenever I'm cooking or baking, which helped to keep a lid down on some of the anxiety and impatience that I get while working in the kitchen.The braised...