O'live & Write

If you've ever wondered where Japanese restaurants get some of their ingredients, you might want to make a trip to Tanjong Pagar. Hidden along Tanjong Pagar Road is APRICE, a Japanese wholesale grocery store that's stocked with everything from sashimi-grade seafood and restaurant-sized condiments to affordable coffee beans and bulk pantry essentials. While it's designed with F&B businesses in mind, it's also open to the public. Which means anyone can shop here. The best part? Some of the...

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...