Alas, Jack Yu has left the coffee distribution business and gone into currency exchange! So how to get my wonderful Vietnamese coffee? Once I’d started to run low, drastic steps were required. I went downtown, to the Liang Court Mall, on the river walk near Clark Quay (east side of the river). On the second […]
I should add to the previous post that Jack does NOT deal in weasel coffee. That’s the (reputedly) exquisite coffee, available only from Indonesia and Vietnam (perhaps Thailand as well), where there are civet cats, a glorified type of weasel. These critters periodically indulge in eating coffee berries, exposing the coffee beans inside to their […]
Previously on this blog I sang the praises of Trung Nguyen’s ground coffee, called Creative 1, which I get by ordering it online. Well, here’s a big opportunity if you want to sell coffee in Singapore – Jack Yu, who owns the Cafe Ventures company (which delivers my coffee), wants to sell it. So if […]
Here’s the sign on our local bus telling us not to carry durians aboard. You can’t carry them on trains either. I guess you either have to eat them where you buy them, or take a taxi. Unless you own a car, in which case you’re welcome to stink out your own property.
Americans are pleased to say that free speech is their national birthright. Well, in Singapore that’s not necessarily the case, but at least everyone has access to cheap fresh fruit. And considering what use a lot of Americans make of their free speech rights (hate speech [including ideological and religious ranting], porn, lobbyists, the Ku […]
Someone asked me if we’d been to a good restaurant in Singapore, and it took me a while to figure out how to answer. Singapore is riddled with food outlets, at every mall, at every bus depot, every train station (well, almost), every housing development. There are regular restaurants in malls and downtown, but mostly […]
OK, everyone talks about Singapore’s food, so I’ll start with the first thing I reach for in the morning. Singapore of course can get you Starbucks and espresso, but the locals drink small cups of Kopi, which is a very dark, even sludgelike brew, poured into a cup that contains a few spoonfuls of […]