Celebrating Cindy's birthday at The Disgruntled Chef, 26B Dempsey Road, Singapore

Awesome patatas bravas with merguez and roasted tomato aioli dip. Outstanding.

The thick cut fries served with the steamed mussels with merguez & white wine were pretty tasty too!

Baby spinach salad with grilled eggplant and marinated egg was a group favourite.

Baked bone marrow stuffed with braised oxtail, persillade & sourdough toast.

Deconstructed cheesecake ...

lemon tart and the espresso profiteroles below completed a wonderful meal.

Thanks Jothie!

Celebrating Gerry and Lay Kuan's birthdays at Artichoke, 161 Middle Road, Sculpture Square, Singapore

Mezze platter (hummus, chickpea tahini dip, baba ganoush, beetroot tzatziki, muhammara, labneh, sardine on tomato relish, and olives, served with buttered grilled turkish bread)

Lamb intercostals, Lay Kuan and my favourite dish. Two more skewers please!

Fried cauliflower, the Spudette's and Jothie's favourite dish.

Grilled haloumi served with baby tomatoes

Grilled prawns cooked in green chilli harissa cream ... more-ish sauce worth licking the cast iron pan.

Local mushroom pizza. Sounds modest, tastes awesome.

Smoked chicken. Unbelievably intense yet smooth flavour imparted by the sugar cane and cherry branches smoked with it. Totally "wat".

Christmas ham compliments of the chef. Thank you Bjorn!

Harira

The birthday girls with their salted caramel sticky date pudding and apple crumble in the foreground. Happiness for the Spudette. Back for more soon!! Thank for a lovely, amazingly delicious evening Bjorn and your team at Artichoke!!!

Lay Kuan dreaming of lamb......

Christmas repast with Mahita and Michael

Roasted Brastagi and sweet potatoes

Mahita's special stuffing slow cooked over 6 hours. One of the spudette's favourite things.

Dark and white roast turkey served with gravy on the side.

Super sweet roasted pumpkin.

Roasted squash.

Brussel sprouts with a sprinkle of Turkish chestnuts - thank you Gerry.

Baby spinach and pomegranate salad. 

My first tentative foray to the table - I was back three more times!

Take a bow chef!!

Dinner @ Olga's

Duck confit from Toulouse. Thank you Jacques How.

The glorious by product from the confit, duck fat. O used it to fry huge wedges of potatoes. Incredible ... she is my new culinary hero.

And she is so super gorgeous, inside and out.

Back in Singapore with some of the best local fare

Curry with potatoes and flat noodles @ Good Morning Nanyang Cafe at Far East Plaza

Popiah from My Cozy Corner, Coronation Shopping Centre, 587 Bukit Timah Road, #02-02, Singapore

Popiah from Kopitiam, ground floor, main building, NUH

and

Meat lovers spinach wrap from the local Starbucks @ NUHS Medical Centre

Spagetti Arrabiatta, Peperoni @ Greenwood