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Visit Hiratsuka – Wash Some Cash, Have Sour Ramen and Catch a Keirin Race

May 24th, 2018

I spent a half day in Hiratsuka, which sits on the pacific coast of Japan between Tokyo and Mt Fuji. It is a modern Japanese city best known for its Keirin stadium, an unusual vinegar based ramen (which I enjoyed) and a decent art museum. Laundering money is illegal but washing it at Hiratsuka's Myoenji temple is meant to bring luck. So, my trip ended with me having some of my Japanese Yen washed in the hope of getting rich for the year - let's see what...

More from Nouri with Guest Chef Darren Teoh of Dewakan

January 17th, 2018

Another great "Four Hands" dinner at Nouri with chef Ivan Brehm and guest chef Darren Teoh creating some really good Malaysian inspired dishes. Darren is from Dewakan in Kuala Lumpur, a restaurant that I've heard lots of positive comments about but haven't had the chance to try. With the current Four Hands meals running today (January 17) for lunch and dinner, I'd encourage anyone with time today to head to Nouri. It it isn't convenient, look forward to more Four or Six Hands meals coming up...

Nouri – Salsa to Sambal in Singapore

January 8th, 2018

A meal at Nouri is like a trip around the world. Chef Ivan Brehm hails from Brazil and takes those influences as well as a focus on local ingredients to create his take on what I'd describe as creative french food with a good dose of international influences. This seems to be the trend these days but which is done well at Nouri with Ivan's own touches. A lot of pride is taken in using "locally" sourced produce especially a plethora of organic vegetables grown in Malaysia's Cameron...

Bam! Special Evening with Paco Perez

September 23rd, 2017

Bam! on its own is already worth going to but the occasional special guest chef dinners are great events. The following photos are from when Paco Perez guest chef-ed earlier this year. Paco is chef of Michelin two-starred Miramar in Llanca, Spain. The featured photo above was the first of our six courses (five savoury and one dessert). Over the sweet peas, a freeze dried consommé melts to form a thin gelatinous layer. The ingredients were fairly exotic - sea cucumber, eel and tendons -...

Chicago’s Alinea – Come on an Empty Stomach

September 23rd, 2017

Come on a very empty stomach. Some top rated restaurants fail to live up to the hype but this is not the case for Alinea. It has three Michelin stars and was voted the country's outstanding restaurant by the James Beard Foundation in 2016. Admittedly I was half worried that I wasn't going to enjoy the food as much as I should, but the presentation, breadth of tastes from dish to dish and fine but not stuffy service really surprised me as to how good this place really is. It's almost...