O'live & Write

My left armpit area, the part where you strain too hard when forcing a jar open, aches. We had shucked 34 oysters yesterday at the shuck-all-you-can oyster buffet, and I’m feeling the after effects of my amateur techniques for the first hour. It took me a while to warm up to the correct technique, but once I did, I found myself peeling oysters open fairly quickly. It was so much fun, for both my limbs and my tummy. Full house! Tucked away in Opal Crescent is a restaurant with two oyster carts...

It’s late February in Singapore. The red packets have been opened. The pineapple tarts are down to crumbs. The CNY hype may have officially expired, but several of kaiyra.designs' work still linger in our minds. Let's rewind a little: our introduction to @kaiyra.designs didn’t begin with Chinese New Year. It began as a Christmas gift. This was a piece commissioned by a client we were working with - and when it arrived, what struck us wasn’t just that it was 3D printed. It was how cheeky and...

While Bibik Violet is often known as the more casual counterpart to Violet Oon Singapore, the uniqueness, we find, lies in its setting: the Temasek Shophouse, which is technically housed within a century-old heritage building. Temasek Shophouse has been newly renovated, and it shows. Brighter, airier, and far more pleasant to wander than other parts of town. Inside, we’re greeted with soft sunlight and music coming from a grand piano, tucked somewhere in a room down the winding corridors....