Singapore is made up of 70% Chinese people and just by looking around, you can see their influences everywhere. Not only in Chinese restaurants, pagoda structures, the Chingay festival, Chinese New Year celebrated with such colour and excitement and structures with Chinese influences, Singapore is coloured bright red by its dominant population. One of the great things about this is that we get to experience every aspect of Chinese cuisine and cooking there is. The thing about the Chinese culture in Singapore is that it is extremely eclectic; there is no one single tribe that plays a major role in deciding the culture that pervades our local streets. From Hakka, Cantonese, okkien, Teo Chew and even Chinese influenced cultures like Peranakan are all in Singapore. And these are just to name a few, there are so many more available and with the opening up of our local economy to foreigners, ... [more..]

The importance of good restaurants to a city is about more than simply providing good food to its residents. When you think about it, most people living in a city will eat in its restaurants less often than once a week. Restaurants are considered a vital part of the hospitality sector because, more than anything, they are a place where people eat in special circumstances. Often they will be a visitor to the city and not familiar with it, and will consequently have fewer preconceived ideas. Other times they will be eating in a restaurant for business reasons, and looking to impress a potential investor. Or they may be out for a special occasion, looking to mark it in style. One way or the other, it is a circumstance that needs special treatment. Small cafes and coffee shops can afford to have a more "take us as you find us" ... [more..]

Just imagine that you lived in the medieval times. That was a time when people did not travel around much. Nevertheless, if somebody had to travel out of the city, he used to ask around so that he would get the best information about the best place to eat in and to stay in, when he went to a particular city for the first time. This can be supposed to be a restaurant guide. In the 21st century, you are doing exactly that, when you are going on to the Internet looking at restaurants Covent Garden.So here you are, getting more information on restaurants Covent Garden on a Google search, in the shape of restaurant guide websites. Not only are you going to get information on that particular restaurant you have chosen to have dinner in, but you are also going to get your information written down by a person ... [more..]