Foodnotes and Fieldnotes since 2010
CALL ME SENTIMENTAL, but I am truly romantic by nature. March 11 has always been a significant day for me, as it is the day I uprooted my life from Manila and moved to Singapore. It has been seven years since. Initially a move done in the name of love, this journey has evolved into [...]
Andre was mentioned that he wanted some satay bee hoon for dinner, and upon his mention of this messy, hearty dish, my mouth started to water. I knew we had to satiate this craving. - I’ve been living in Singapore for four years now, and I’ve turned to satay and satay bee hoon as a [...]
A girl like me couldn’t leave New York without going to Glossier, one of the few brands as of late that I’ve been geeking over, listening to every podcast with Emily Weiss and reading every article I could find about the business. I mean, what’s there to not love about an affordable beauty brand that [...]
My first encounter with Brotherbird was during my first few weeks upon moving to Singapore last 2016. I stepped inside their shop in Bali Lane where I had their salted egg yolk-filled mochi doughnuts with soft-serve ice cream. And just this February, they opened a new concept at CT Hub in Lavender that focuses on [...]
Stories on Film: Roll 1 (400 ISO) I’ve been feeling quite jaded about life lately, so I decided to take up a new hobby—film photography with lomography as my entry point! I finally got myself a Lomo LC-A+ 35mm a few months ago, and it’s been wonderfully refreshing. Most of my day-to-day work is focused [...]
Pork is my least favourite meat. I can easily pass up on the holiday lechon (roasted suckling pig) and coffee pork ribs—and I know that sounds crazy, but it’s true. Blame it on childhood trauma when I'd always find pork fat cubes with pig's hair still sticking out of them floating inside the evening's menudo. Gross! [...]
One of my favourite ramen bowls can be found in Liang Court, Singapore, where 90% of the stores are Japanese. They have Uniqlo, a Kinokuniya, and Meidi-ya, which is a sizable grocery stocked with Japanese goods. Liang Court is my favourite mall in Singapore. And Marutama Ramen can be found on its second floor. A homey, [...]
It's nice to be writing online again. In fact, this blog is actually more than five years old already. I used to have my own "official" website in two versions - a .com and a .net - but things got weird, and I lost both domains. So I just took it as a sign to subscribe [...]
Sometimes we easily get complacent in life, and we lose sight of what matters in this world. We get swallowed up by work, and ease into mediocrity. But one thing I have been learning lately is that we should never settle. We have to break the monotony once in a while and let loose. There [...]
Mikka Wee 