Foodnotes and Fieldnotes since 2010
I never really considered myself to be a “morning person”. I’m the type of person who relishes sleep as much as she does sandwiches—so much that reading all these articles about successful people waking up at 5:00am nauseates me. Because I could never be that type of person who wakes up at 5:00am... ...or so [...]
The onset of July brought about another contemplative season. I was forced to put things into perspective, living in this pandemic, and to think hard and clear about what it is that I really want in life. One of the things I am proudest of in my 30 years of existence was to have begun [...]
News update: Singapore finally announced that it was entering Circuit Breaker Phase 2 last June 19, 2020. This meant most establishments were allowed to open up. For example, dine-ins are now allowed but with safe distancing measures put in place. Gyms are allowed to operate (sadly, I had to terminate my membership because the circumstances [...]
During these extraordinary times, I’m sure you know that there comes a breaking point when a bite of comfort is inevitable, and when that breaking point comes, one must succumb to the pull of the palate. I have been dreaming about the elusive St. JOHN Custard Doughnuts for a while now, which are filled with [...]
Hey, there. Wow, it’s been a while since I wrote here, and to think it’s only now in this pandemic that I’ve started writing again. To say that 2020 is a strange year is such an understatement. To be living in these times feels like a dream—I always tell my friends it’s like living in [...]
My first foray with online journaling was possibly around 2003, Blogger/Blogspot era. I’ve attempted many a time to stick to a single platform. However, I kept wandering off to different domains, constantly reinventing, reframing, and evolving with my writing. My journey from LiveJournal, to Multiply, to Tumblr (or was it the other way around?), to [...]
Whenever I think of German food, I can never really tell if whatever I had was really it. I can’t quite remember anything else except for my Grandpa’s addiction to those deep-fried pork knuckles, my love for sauerkraut, an ex-boyfriend’s obsession with spätzle, and drunken evenings at Brotzeit, shoving down bratwurst and pints of radler [...]
While Andre and I were planning our Bangkok trip, he asked if I had any restaurant requests. Apart from Restaurant Sühring, there wasn’t really anything else because relishing the street food in Bangkok is quite the treat already. So I asked him to choose. My qualifications were that it had to be laid-back with an [...]
The last time I travelled to Bangkok was in 2014, it was for a media junket that I had the pleasure of being part of. We started from the Northern area of Thailand (Chiang Rai), headed to my favorite Thai city (Chiang Mai), and winded down in Bangkok. We were spoiled with lavish food and [...]
If Christmas and New Year’s are big in Manila, Lunar New Year is the equivalent here in Singapore. My company was nice enough to give us a few days off, so, of course, I used that time to come back home to Manila and spend time with my best friends, family, and of course, Rocket! [...]
Mikka Wee 