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Tag Archives: Chinese
Blogging About Chinese New Year 2011
It just dawned on me that I have blogged a ton about Chinese New Year 2011 – The Year of the Rabbit. Thought I’d better be a bit organized since February is already here. Here are all my Singapore CNY … Continue reading
Posted in Singapore Living
Tagged Architecture, Art, beauty, blog, blogging, Chinatown, Chinese, Chinese New Year, Chinese New Year 2011, CNY, cny 2011, culture, decor, design, documenting, Entertainment, Food, heartlands, Life, Living, Marina Bay, memories, Orchard Road, Parkway Parade, personal, photography, photos, posts, shopping, shops, Singapore, Toa Payoh, travel
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River Hong Bao 2011 is Awesome (Head to the Float at Marina Bay)
As we drove past The Esplanade we were quite dismayed as it seemed like there was nothing to see, but when we walked towards the area after parking, I was thrilled at the sight before me. River Hong Bao 2011 … Continue reading
Posted in Singapore Living
Tagged 25th anniversary, Architecture, Art, attractions, awesome, Chinese, Chinese New Year, Chinese New Year 2011, culture, decor, design, dragon, Entertainment, Esplanade, exciting, exhibition, festive, Food, Food Fair, God of Fortune, Life, Living, Marina Bay, Marina Bay Sands, Nanjing, personal, photography, photos, rabbits, River Hong Bao 2011, Singapore, Singapore Tourist Promotion Board, STPB, The Float, Things To Do, tourists, travel, what to do, what to see, Year of the Rabbit
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Chinese New Year Food Fair at Ngee Ann City (Takashimaya)
It was lively and crowded at Ngee Ann City (where department store Takashimaya is) and you could feel that Chinese New Year’s approaching. The Fair is on till 1 February, so hurry there if you want to buy your cookies … Continue reading
Posted in Singapore Living
Tagged 2011, cakes, Chinese, Chinese New Year, cookies, culture, decor, design, Entertainment, Food, Food Fair, food hall, Life, Living, mall, Ngee Ann City, Orchard Road, personal, photography, photos, shopping, Singapore, Takashimaya, tidbits, Year of the Rabbit
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Chinese New Year 2011: Northpoint – Mall Linked to Yishun MRT
Northpoint is another old mall, but this one has been refurbished. There’s even a Wendy’s here now. The most interesting aspect of the Chinese New Year decorations was the Zodiac chart with fortunes for the year of the rabbit. To … Continue reading
Posted in Singapore Living
Tagged Chinese, Chinese New Year, cny 2011, culture, decor, decorations, design, Food, fortunes, Life, Living, mall, North Point, Northpoint, personal, photography, photos, shopping, Singapore, Wendy's, Year of the Rabbit, Yishun, Yishun 10, Yishun MRT
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#6. Soya Bean Curd
I could have this for breakfast, lunch and dinner. If there was a diet that called for only bean curd, I could do it. Bean curd is a great source of protein and I ever go vegetarian this would be … Continue reading
Posted in Healthy Food I Like
Tagged Chinese, culture, Food, healthy, healthy food I like, less sugar, soya bean curd, Tau Huay
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Bright Orange Kumquat Trees with Red Bows Ring in Chinese New Year
Kumquats can be seen all over Singapore, usually in the front of houses of Singaporeans who celebrate Chinese New Year. The Kumquat Tree is small and slow-growing. It has fruit on it that looks like Mandarin oranges. I was excited … Continue reading
Posted in Singapore Living
Tagged 2011, Chinese, Chinese New Year, culture, decor, festival, kumquats, Life, Living, personal, photography, photos, pretty, Singapore
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Chinese New Year 2011: Oddly Cute Rabbits at Bishan
This year the Chinese New Year decorations all over Singapore are getting more interesting, probably due to a bigger budget. I like how the pink rabbit holds an orange and the white one holds a gold ingot (the currency used … Continue reading
Posted in Singapore Living
Tagged 2011, Bishan, Bishan MRT, Chinese, Chinese New Year, culture, cute, decor, design, Junction 8, Life, Living, mall, personal, photography, photos, shopping, Singapore, travel, Year of the Rabbit
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Gorgeous Pink Floral Lanterns at My Village (Serangoon Garden)
I love the tasteful decorations for the Year of the Rabbit at My Village, the new little mall in Serangoon Gardens. I love it for the very reason that it’s tiny and relatively empty. The new mall is located at … Continue reading
Posted in Singapore Living
Tagged 2011, beautiful, beauty, carpark, Chinese, Chinese New Year, Chocolate, culture, floral lantern, Food, Life, Living, Maju, mall, My Village, NTUC Finest, parking garage, parking lot, personal, photography, photos, Pink Lanterns, pretty, Serangoon Garden, Serangoon Gardens, shopping, Singapore, travel, Year of the Rabbit
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More Chinese New Year Photos from the Trip to Vivo City
Another place to get the full effect of Chinese New Year, together with the loud music are the supermarkets, so since we were at VivoCity we checked out the Malaysia Hypermart called Giant. Couldn’t resist snapping Bug’s Bunny’s girlfriend in … Continue reading
Posted in Singapore Living
Tagged Chinese, Chinese New Year, CNY2011, culture, design, fashion, Giant, hypermart, Life, Living, mall, mandarin oranges, oranges, personal, photography, photos, shopping, shops, Singapore, supermarket, travel, vivo, VivoCity
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VivoCity: Very Cool Chinese Arts & Crafts Fair
I was excited to see the Chinese Arts & Crafts Fair with vendors mostly from China at the central court at Level 1. Took some photos, but I think you would enjoy heading down to check it out yourself. I … Continue reading
Posted in Singapore Living
Tagged activities, Art, beautiful, Central Court, Chinese, Chinese Arts and Crafts Fair, Chinese New Year, Chinese paper cuttings, crafts, culture, Events, hairdo, Level 1, Life, Living, mall, personal, photography, photos, pretty, shopping, Singapore, Sugar Art, travel, vivo, VivoCity, what to do
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VivoCity Ushers in the Year of the Rabbit
I don’t have much patience for shopping and prefer to do it online, but each festive season, I enjoy looking at the creative window treatments. If you want to feel the festive spirit and don’t want to jostle with the … Continue reading
Posted in Singapore Living
Tagged 2011, Art, Chinese, Chinese New Year, culture, decor, design, Life, Living, mall, personal, photography, photos, pretty, shopping, shops, Singapore, travel, vivo, VivoCity, Window Display, window treatments, Year of the Rabbit
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Dim Sum at Crystal Jade
We keep returning to Crystal Jade because of the unpretentious service and good quality dim sum. Also even though we were only a party of two they didn’t stick us in some corner or in between a bunch of people. … Continue reading
Posted in Food in Singapore
Tagged Chinese, Crystal Jade Kitchen, culture, decor, Dim Sum, Food, Life, Living, personal, photography, photos, Plaza Singapura, Singapore, travel
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Memories of Singapore’s Oldest Shopping Centre
If wormholes made time travel possible and a four year old me visited the future Singapore, Plaza Singapura would be one place that would be totally unrecognizable. Plaza Singapura opened way back in 1975. It’s anchor store used to be … Continue reading
Posted in Singapore Living
Tagged 1975, 2011, Amy Chua, childhood, Chinese, Chinese New Year, culture, decor, design, Food, history, Life, Living, Nostalgia, parenting, photography, photos, piano exams, Plaza Singapura, shopping, Singapore, travel, Yaohan, Year of the Rabbit
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Chinese New Year in Town
I met my dear friend today and had such a good time just chatting. We both used to refer to Orchard Road as Town, and we used to come here to watch movies or have lovely meals after classes were … Continue reading
Posted in Singapore Living
Tagged beautiful, Chinese, Chinese New Year, culture, decor, decorations, design, friend, Life, Living, mall, Orchard Road, personal, photography, photos, pretty, shopping, Singapore, town, travel
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Cheap, Light and Tasty Lunch at Chinatown Market: Chee Cheong Fun
The best Chee Cheong Fun I ever had was in Penang. It was packed with intense flavour and practically melted in my mouth. I don’t know how else to describe it, although I don’t think I’m doing a very good … Continue reading
Posted in Food in Singapore
Tagged cheap, Chee Cheong Fun, Chinatown, Chinatown market, Chinese, culture, delicious, Food, Life, light, Living, lunch, personal, photography, photos, Singapore, travel, yummy
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Lunch Buffet at Rise (Marina Bay Sands Hotel) – Part 2 of 3
I know the rule everyone knows at buffets is not to fill up on bread, but it’s the one thing I just can’t resist. The breads here looked exceptionally good. Especially with real French salted butter provided. There was the … Continue reading
Posted in Food in Singapore
Tagged biriyani, bread, breads, breadsticks, butter, Chinese, crab, culture, diced chicken, dining, flower crab, Food, hummus, Indian, lamb, Life, Living, lunch, Lunch Buffet, Marina Bay Sands Hotel, oysters, personal, photography, photos, prawns, restaurant, Rise, savoury, Singapore, sushi, sweet and sour fish, travel
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Rolina: Hainanese Curry Puffs at Serangoon Garden Market
The uncle selling the traditional Hainanese style curry puffs is really nice with a genuine smile for customers. It makes me want to buy more even though they curry puffs are expensive at S$1.20 each. The stuffing as well as … Continue reading
Posted in Food in Singapore
Tagged chicken curry puff, Chinese, culture, curry puffs, Food, Hainan, Hainanese, Life, Living, Makansutra, personal, photography, photos, Rolina, Rolina's, Serangoon Garden Market, Serangoon Gardens, Singapore, Traditional, travel
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Who’s Shopping and Helping Our Economy?
We can thank the Indonesians, Chinese and Indians. A study of spending among tourists during the January to September 2010 period shows the Indonesians topping the list followed by the Chinese and Indians. Indonesians:USD 1.58 billion Chinese:USD 0.95 billion Indians: … Continue reading
Posted in Singapore Headlines
Tagged Chinese, economy, Indians, Indonesians, news, shopping, Singapore, spending, tourism, travel
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Changi Airport Terminal 3: Shanghai Style Souffle Balls
These egg white souffle balls stuffed with red bean and banana at Crystal Jade Shanghai are so divine. With the the dusting of icing sugar it’s just perfection. It’s a bit oily though being deep fried and all. I wish … Continue reading
Posted in Food in Singapore
Tagged Changi Airport, Chinese, Crystal Jade Shanghai, culture, design, dining, Entertainment, Food, Life, Living, pau, personal, photography, photos, restaurant, Singapore, souffle balls, Terminal 3, travel
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Hokkien and Singlish Expressions I Actually Use
By request of Kierstens of Suddenly in Asia, I am doing this post about Singlish words. This post is dedicated to you, Kierstens. Hope you like it. Singlish is a very easy going form of communication and highly economical. You … Continue reading
Posted in Singapore Living
Tagged blur sotong, Chinese, conversation, culture, Dawn Yang, expat, fake accent, funny, Hokkien, how lian, kan cheong, kancheong spider, language, Life, local, pretty, Singapore, Singaporean, Singaporean auntie, Singlish, suan, ta pow, Video, words
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Food Republic at VivoCity
The fried kway teow was not so great. It was somewhat dry. The curry rice was good, but somehow better at the Wisma Atria branch. I still prefer Food Republic over other Singapore Food Courts.
Posted in Food in Singapore
Tagged Chinese, culture, Food, Food Republic, Life, Living, mall, personal, photography, photos, travel, VivoCity
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