Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants

Food Review: Sri Lanka’s Most Famous Restaurant Ministry of Crab Opens At Dempsey In Singapore | One Of Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants

June 30, 2024

The Place I was excited when I saw that Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Crab is opening in Singapore, as this Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants brings back memories of my travel days in [...]

Food Review: Eatanic Garden At Josun Palace, Seoul | Delicious Contemporary Korean Cuisine With Gorgeous View Of Seoul From This Michelin Starred Restaurant

May 27, 2024

The Place One of the fine-dining meals I had in my recent Seoul trip was at Eatanic Garden, a One Michelin Star restaurant located in the luxurious Josun Palace. Eatanic [...]

Food Review: Born And Bred, Seoul | Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants For A Delicious Taste Of Hanwoo Beef

April 26, 2024

The Place I have heard so much about Hanwoo beef that a visit to Born and Bred was on my agenda way before my trip to Seoul. Born and Bred is a Michelin Guide restaurant [...]

Food Review: Restaurant Potong, Bangkok | Progressive Thai-Chinese Michelin Starred Restaurant

February 28, 2024

The Restaurant A visit to Restaurant Potong in Bangkok’s Chinatown district has been on my list for awhile, and I finally managed to secure a table back in December. [...]

Food Review: Lolla Singapore At Ann Siang Road | Innovative Mediterranean Restaurant On Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants

July 8, 2023

The Place Located along Ann Siang Road, Lolla restaurant is an established name which I revisited recently after a couple of years. Lolla has been in the spotlight this year [...]

Food Review: Sorn Fine Southern Cuisine, Bangkok | Is This Michelin Starred Thai Restaurant The Best In Bangkok?

September 21, 2022

The Place I was determined to get a table at Sorn, Bangkok, and read that it is notoriously difficult to secure a reservation. And when I managed to, I was elated. Sorn is a [...]

Food Review: Burnt Ends At Dempsey Hill | Rustic And Spacious New Location For The Michelin Starred Restaurant

June 30, 2022

The Place Getting a table at Burnt Ends is no easy feat. I managed to check out the new Burnt Ends space in Dempsey (they have relocated from their previous Teck Lim Road [...]

Snippets: Singapore Fine-Dining Restaurants For Takeaways and Deliveries This Circuit Breaker | Dabao Your Michelin Stars Home

April 7, 2020

Singapore – Who would have thought at the beginning of 2020 that even fine dining and Michelin Starred restaurants will be in the takeaway business? With no dine-in from [...]

Food Review: Mume Taipei At Da’an District | A Glimpse Of Dining At One Of Asia’s 50 Best Restaurant

December 20, 2019

The Place One of the restaurants I really wanted to check out in my recent Taipei trip is Mume. Run by three young chefs, Mume restaurant is not shy of accolades as it is [...]

Food Review: A Revisit To The One-Michelin Starred Burnt Ends | Vibrant Dining Ambience At One Of Asia’s 50 Best

December 5, 2019

The Place I visited the highly raved Burnt Ends a couple of years back before its One-Michelin Star accolade and fortunately, I managed to secure a reservation one random [...]

Food Review: RAW Taipei By Chef Andre Chiang | One Of The Best Restaurant in Taipei And The Toughest To Snag A Table

November 26, 2019

The Place It is not an exaggeration to coin RAW as the most difficult restaurant to reserve in Taipei, and possibly the whole of Taiwan. For a start, this is Chef Andre [...]

Snippets: Singapore Restaurants in The World’s 50 Best Restaurants | Best Restaurants in Singapore

June 26, 2019

This year’s edition of The World’s 50 Best Restaurants award was held in the Marina Bay Sands Singapore. With only 1 restaurant from the island nation entering [...]

Food Review: Ronin at Central, Hong Kong | Modern Japanese Izakaya and One of Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants

April 28, 2019

The Place Located around the corner from The Chairman, Ronin is a modern Japanese Izakaya restaurant by the same team behind the highly raved Yardbird. The small and cosy [...]

Food Review: The Chairman Restaurant (大班樓) at Central, Hong Kong | One of Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants

April 17, 2019

The Place The private dining trend in Singapore over the past year is hugely inspired by Hong Kong’s long established private dining scene. The Chairman restaurant [...]

Food Review: Jaan at Swissotel The Stamford | Michelin Starred Restaurant in Singapore and One of Asia’s 50 Best

March 31, 2019

The Place When Chef Julien left Jaan to helm the Two Michelin starred Odette, there is some big shoes to fill. Fortunately, the restaurant at level 70 of Swissotel the [...]

Food Review: Ministry of Crab at Colombo, Sri Lanka | The Best Restaurant in Sr Lanka and 29th in Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants

March 18, 2018

The Place Sri Lankan crabs – a dish we are so familiar even back in Singapore. Located in a preserved 400-year-old Old Dutch Hospital in Colombo, Ministry of Crab is a [...]

Food Review: Restaurant Andre at Bukit Pasoh Road | Possibly the Best Restaurant in Singapore [Closed]

September 9, 2017

The Place When the Rantee told me he made a reservation at Restaurant Andre, it dawned on me that the last time I was really excited to try a restaurant was relatively long [...]

Food Review: Burnt Ends at Keong Saik | Modern Australian cuisine, one of Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants

February 23, 2017

The Place Burnt Ends has been on our radar for the longest time, but we only managed to check it out last November. Yes, finally. Located in the Keong Saik enclave not far [...]

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