Singapore aims to produce 30% of its food by 2030

On 7 Mar, Environment and Water Resources Minister Masagos Zulkifli had announced Singapore Food Agency’s (SFA) aim to produce 30 percent of Singapore’s food needs by 2030. Currently, Singapore imports over 90 percent of its food. As such, we are “exposed to the volatilities of the global food market,” Mr. Masagos said in his Committee […]
Singapore to ban partially hydrogenated oils

Partially hydrogenated oils (PHOs), a major source of artificial trans-fat, will be banned by the Ministry of Health (MOH), Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Health Amrin Amin said in Parliament on 6 Mar. Agreeing on the World Health Organization’s (WHO) stand in the removal of artificial trans-fat from food supplies, Mr. Amrin also warned about the […]
MP Lim Biow Chuan responds to Gary Ho’s post that he allegedly “said nothing” to the hawkers

Gary Ho, a longtime patron of Old Airport Road Hawker Centre, put out a lengthy post on his Facebook account, which recounted his own findings from the hawkers themselves and the allegedly unreasonable practices by the management. If you don’t feel like reading the wall of text, here’s a summary of what he mentioned in […]
OMG! Someone actually made a crispy rendang!

BAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! It actually exists! Check this out: It’s a Western fail, but someone has actually gone out of his way to make a real-life crispy rendang! Yenni Law, 43, runs a restaurant in Taman Tun Dr Ismail in Kuala Lumpur and has made this parody of a dish in honour of Materchef U.K.’s Gregg Wallace. […]
Bubble tea turned out to be Lizard tea in KL

A Malaysian netizen posted his scary encounter with a drink he ordered, on his Facebook. 2 days ago (10 February), he ordered a cup of large classic roasted milk tea with pearl from a Tealive outlet at Bukit Jalil. Halfway through his drink, there was a weird feeling in his mouth. There was something else in […]
Lesser places to eat Shark’s Fin soup from this year

89 Singaporean restaurants will take shark’s fin soup and other shark products off their menus from this year. They are heeding the WWF’s (World Wide Fund for Nature’s) call to action last year. The decision was announced yesterday and is the largest collective pledge by the local industry to date. Establishments can phase out shark’s […]
Supplement pills may not help you the way you think

Medical experts say that frequent supplement pills popping can have negative effects on our bodies. The side effects include kidney or liver problems, vomiting and diarrhoea. In fact, most healthy people don’t need supplements. Yet, Singaporeans are spending more on vitamins and health supplements. About $494 million was spent on health supplement products last year, […]
Your coffee might actually have cockroach in it…

Ok, prepare for it… The coffee that you drink at some F&B outlets might actually have cockroach in it. A news article in UK highlighted how a couple found their coffee machine infested with baby cockroaches. And it also happens in Singapore. But the potential cockroach infestation is limited to F&B establishments that use fully […]
Make sure you buy your Liang Teh from a licensed TCM shop

When you buy Liang Teh or tea-leaf egg from a Sinseh (Traditional Chinese Medicine) shop next time, make sure the shop is licensed to sell food and drinks hor! Yesterday (25 January), the National Environment Agency said that all traditional chinese medicine shops that prepare or sell food and drinks within their premises have to […]
Biggest Winter Melon in Singapore is heavier than your skinny lian

A 32kg winter melon was harvested by a 73 year old retiree in a community garden at Bukit Batok. This surpasses the previous record of 25 kg which was harvested at the Community Gardens Edibles Competition. Mr Huang Guanghui told a Chinese newspaper that he grew up in a kampung, and always observed his father […]