Yesterday’s Straits Times (Dec 21) carried what seemed like a timely letter, considering that this is the season for giving to one’s loved ones. Why not extend that largesse to a needy stranger suggested the letter written by a Peter Loon.
Among many of the usual utterances against conspicuous consumerism, he popped this proposal:
While we plan our [...]
Archive for the ‘value meals’ Category
22 Dec
Buy a needy stranger a meal? Be practical!
17 Sep
Cheap & good eat: fast to fix
LW is full of ideas for making great meals and consequently is often sought for her recipes. She doesn’t write them down, giving pointers whenever she’s asked.
Perhaps that’s the way to go for which cook, good or bad, follows recipes slavishly anyway, given the mnany things that can’t always be replicated — ingredients, size of kitchen, adequacy of [...]
14 Sep
Good eats @ better prices
Looking over my recent posts, it looked as if I didn’t do much eating out — or in. Which isn’t the case, of cos!
I shall keep what I ate recently short, sweet and to point.
First, Siti’s experiment with food guru Sylvia Tan’s kedgeree recipe which appeared a few weeks ago in Mind Your Body. Two versions — the [...]
10 Jul
Nyonya: cheap & good &
all 4 a good cause as well.
This took place on May 12; I was invited to a fundraiser for the Presisdent’s Challenge 2009 organised by the National University of Singapore Society and Singapore Pools at SP’s HQ in Selegie Road.
What’s unique about this event was that it was so incredibly cheap at $18 per head, as [...]
16 Jun
3rd time lucky
Sometime ago, on March 16 to be exact, I wrote how I went to Uncle’s Kitchen (the re-incarnation of Tea Shake Hut) to eat its nasi lemak again – after eating it only for the first time earlier in March, this despite dining at this eatery regularly since it began operation.
Only to get heartburn on my return nasi [...]
26 May
Rage, rage against
the dying light? Nah, just want to rage against those food outlets which target just the young. Isn’t that also discriminating against age?
Yoshinoya, Pizza Hut, Breeks Cafe, Jack’s Place, Chicago Steakhouse and Say Cheeze are offering students food discounts, some as large as two-thirds of those paid by ordinary people.
Thank goodness therefore for us oldies but goldies that [...]
24 May
Down & out in GWC..
It was one of those ho-hum hit-n-run Sunday lunches where speed was of the essence, as Daffy would be dropping by with her China goodies and coz JC had also asked to drop by — all around the 2.30pm-3pm block.
Yup, easier to eat at home to cut the hassle of going out and rushing back.
But [...]
20 May
Vesak go veggie
May 9 was Vesak day and this year long be4 that day, I decided that I would go vegetarian for at least one meal to mark the occasion.
Altho I belong to the category of Buddhists who practise according to convenience (go with the flow school) rather than extra effort, I decided I would make the extra effort nevertheless. After all, I’ve [...]
