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Singapore

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2012

    BBQ Beer: The Spice Table and The Bruery Host an Event

    Barbecue and beer. A pretty ordinary combination -- except when the chef adds coconut, or a dash of fish sauce. The Spice Table is partnering with The Bruery to offer a prix-fixe dinner May 23 at $75 per person. The Singapore-inspired restaurant will serve eight dishes, each accompanied by select be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2012

    Coca-Cola Machine Dispenses Can of Coke for the Price of a Hug

    Happiness, apparently, is a warm embrace. At least, for Coca-Cola, which recently installed a "Hug Machine" that dispenses cold sodas in exchange for warm hugs on the National University of Singapore campus. According to Mashable, the huggable machine is part of the soda company's "Open Happiness" ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 10, 2012

    Q & A With Bryant Ng: The Spice Table, Food & Wine's Best New Chef Award, Bears in Aspen The Joy of Pig's Tails

    When you walk into The Spice Table, the Little Tokyo restaurant chef Bryant Ng and his wife Kim Luu-Ng opened just over a year ago, you are presented with a composition of place so complete that you might not even notice it. The wood-burning open fire behind the bar like a cabin hearth. The birdcage ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 8, 2012

    The Thursday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

    You can't replace the feeling of lounging on the couch with a scrunched-up newspaper. But with the web, at least you don't need to worry about getting ink on your hands and bagel. Here's a roundup of some food-related stories from our country's newspapers this week. Lucky for us, it's mostly free. F ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2012

    The Spice Table: Happy Anniversary A Week of Fun

    If you have not yet been to The Spice Table, chef Bryant Ng's utterly beautiful brick house of a restaurant in Little Tokyo, you might try finally getting around to in next week. Although why you haven't yet gone to eat the marvelous marrow bones, or Ng's take on dishes from his native Singapore or, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2011

    Cupcakes Continue World Domination and Other Lessons from Google's 2011 Zeitgeist

    R.E.~/FlickrCupcakes were one of the most Googled terms of 2011​Much to our chagrin, the cupcake is a trend that just won't die: according to Google's 2011 Year-End Zeitgeist, cupcakes were one of the most popular Food and Drink search terms of the year. Other fascinating revelations about ou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2011

    Anthony Bourdain on The Layover, L.A. and Jonathan Gold

    Via the Travel ChannelAnthony Bourdain at the LudoBites truck.​We elbowed our way into the Travel Channel's crowded media conference call to speak with legendary chef, food writer and TV personality Anthony Bourdain about his new show, The Layover, premiering this month. When it was finally o ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    November 10, 2011

    Lukshon: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

    Via the Travel ChannelAnthony Bourdain at the LudoBites truck.​We elbowed our way into the Travel Channel's crowded media conference call to speak with legendary chef, food writer and TV personality Anthony Bourdain about his new show, The Layover, premiering this month. When it was finally o ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    November 10, 2011

    Spice Table: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

    Via the Travel ChannelAnthony Bourdain at the LudoBites truck.​We elbowed our way into the Travel Channel's crowded media conference call to speak with legendary chef, food writer and TV personality Anthony Bourdain about his new show, The Layover, premiering this month. When it was finally o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 19, 2011

    Q & A With Nancy Silverton: The Mozza Cookbook, The Problem of Gelato Doing One Thing at a Time Very, Very Well

    A. ScattergoodNancy Silverton and her new cookbook at Mozza​ Nancy Silverton, who is an over-achiever in much the same way as is, say, Malcolm Gladwell, has had a productive summer even by her standards. Mozzas in Newport Beach and Singapore recently opened; Amy Pressman's burger project, Shor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2011

    Eat This Now: Lukshon's Duck Popiah

    davidwangla/flickr​ For people who eschew red meat yet eat poultry (you might hear them claim they "do it for the protein"), duck is a gateway drug, an opulent bridge between feathered and hooved things. It is the color of liver, encased in a scuba suit of fat, and drawn to fruit, spice, and ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    June 2, 2011

    Jonathan Gold Reviews Spice Table

    davidwangla/flickr​ For people who eschew red meat yet eat poultry (you might hear them claim they "do it for the protein"), duck is a gateway drug, an opulent bridge between feathered and hooved things. It is the color of liver, encased in a scuba suit of fat, and drawn to fruit, spice, and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2011

    Food Memoir(s) Review: A Tiger In The Kitchen And The Problematic Food Memoir Genre

    ​Memoirs have never been easy to pull off. For starters, no matter how interesting we may personally find our own Pinot Noir-enlivened nights, publishers have long gravitated to those authors who are famous enough to keep those Williams-Sonoma book signing lines out the front door. Even if tho ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    March 24, 2011

    Jonathan Gold Reviews Spice Table

    ​Memoirs have never been easy to pull off. For starters, no matter how interesting we may personally find our own Pinot Noir-enlivened nights, publishers have long gravitated to those authors who are famous enough to keep those Williams-Sonoma book signing lines out the front door. Even if tho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2011

    First Bite: Spice Table in Little Tokyo

    ​You might expect a new restaurant from the opening chef of Pizzeria Mozza to be jammed from the moment it opened, and you wouldn't be surprised to find quartinos of crisp Italian white wine. Diligent ingredient sourcing would practically be a given, as would be the wood-burning oven and the c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2011

    The Cocktail Issue: Lukshon's Singapore Sling A Recipe

    Anne FishbeinLukshon's Singapore Sling​This past week's cover story was the cocktail issue, or L.A.'s Best Cocktails, in which Jonathan Gold considers, as you can probably infer from the title, the best cocktails in Los Angeles. To celebrate the happy event, we're giving you a cocktail a day h ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    March 3, 2011

    L.A.'s Best Cocktails

    Our 55 favorites and where to find them

  • Eat+Drink

    February 17, 2011

    Sang Yoon's Lukshon Is His Most Fully Realized Concept Yet

    New eatery livens up Helms complex

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2011

    First Bite: Lukshon, Sang Yoon's Latest

    F. FriesemaJonagold apples​ We can be forgiven for surmising that something's up at Lukshon, can't we? Because we are at a Sang Yoon restaurant, nobody has tried to tackle us on the way to our (reserved!) table, and we are drinking Singapore Slings or an Beaujolais-style Canary Islands wine ca ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 17, 2011

    The Road To Singapore: Silverton, Batali and Bastianach Open Mozzas in Southeast Asia Pictures!

    Far, far away in an island country known as Singapore, on the second floor of the 800,000 sq. ft. luxury mall known as Marina Bay Sands (a new Southeast Asian offshoot of the Rat Pack's old hangout of choice, The Las Vegas Sands), sits Osteria Mozza and Pizzeria Mozza. To the naked eye they are so e ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 22, 2010

    Updated: Pizzeria Mozza To Open in Newport Beach

    Pizzeria Mozza​ Update: When a reader recently wrote in to ask about the status of the Mozza in Newport Beach, we thought we'd find out. Mozza general manager David Rosoff tells us that the pizzeria, which will be very similar to the original on Melrose and Highland, is coming along nicely. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2010

    Interview: Bomb Zombies On Autotune, Smashing Pumpkins, Moms

    ​ Bomb Zombies "FWUH (Fuckwhatchaheard)" by Hellfyre Club Bomb Zombies is a collaboration between Low End Theory's DJ Nobody and Nocando, offering smart lyrics executed overbass-heavy 808-and-autotune backing tracks. Their Sincerely Yours EP with a provocative cover was released two w ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    November 18, 2010

    Look, Up in the Sky!

    It's the Ritz! It's Chinese! It's Wolfgang Puck!

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2010

    Wayne Coyne's Feet Eaten By Fish in Singapore

    Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne, unsuspecting, before the incident.​Good news for the weird uncles: Despite previously held suspicions to the contrary, there is room for you in the age of social media. (Not creepy uncs. They've already had their day.) Thank Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne, a goo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 17, 2010

    Top ChefUpdate: Season 7 Winner, Season 8 Rumors Top Chef: Just Desserts

    BravoTop Chef: Season 7 Winner Kevin Sbraga​ Wednesday night on the Top Chef Singapore-based finale, host Padma Lakshmi announced 31-year-old chef and New Jersey native Kevin Sbraga winner of the cooking competition's seventh season, edging out New York-based contestants Angelo Sosa and Ed Co ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    July 22, 2010

    Life During Wartime: Happiness Recast

    Todd Solondz on the new roles, and new life, in his latest film

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2010

    Singapore's City Harvest Church Controversy Comes to the Hollywood Hills

    Singaporean Pop Star Sun Ho​Unbeknown to many Hollywood Hills residents, a major, developing controversy involving a wealthy Singapore minister and his widely influential mega-church has come to their posh neighborhood. Over the past few weeks, City Harvest Church pastor Kong Hee, a Christia ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2010

    Luster Fades, Fondness Lingers at Formosa Café

    Flickr/stevendamron​ Now in its 76th year, this much-loved, occasionally ridiculed museum of old Hollywood has careened from glamor to self-parody and back again so many times, it's impossible for anyone--employees and patrons alike--to gauge whether the drinks are ironic or genuine. That said ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2010

    Plate Spinning: Listings From the Past Week

    Some food for thought from local, national and international news sources from this past week: -- The 41 Deadliest Fast Food Meals in America. [Daily Beast] -- Woman becomes first person to be banned from drinking in every bar in England and Wales. [Daily Mail] -- The British finally discover bá ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 8, 2010

    Think Pink: Nan Ru Peanuts, Better Than Parrot Feed or Cat Videos

    ​If you ran across a bowl of nan ru peanuts at a party, you'd probably pass right by them on the way to the bean dip. They're unprepossessing little things, closer to parrot feed than to the peanuts you find at the ballpark, and the shells are tinted a pale yet alarmingly vivid pink. Bitter ex ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 6, 2009

    A Feast at RockSugar with Chef Mohan Ismail: It's No Cafeteria

    Last night's 15-course feast at RockSugar Pan Asian Kitchen--16-courses if you count the surprise Singapore butter lobster chef Mohan Ismail snuck in--was enough to feed a small village. A village with a very sophisticated palate. The feast was orchestrated to introduce next year's new menu items. ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    September 10, 2009

    Street Cred

    At her new Hollywood restaurant, Susan Feniger puts the cart before the hors d’oeuvre

  • Eat+Drink

    September 3, 2009

    Hail the Conquering Chicken

    Hainan (Chicken) Rice in Alhambra

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2009

    Chef Robert Danhi Leads Culinary Tours of Little Saigon

    Emma CourtlandA labyrinth of foreign labels​Los Angeles' ethnic neighborhoods often feel impenetrable. Navigating the seas of strip malls signed by foreign characters, and market mounds of various exotic herbs all labeled "peppermint," is a disconcerting task for even the most adventurous flav ... More >>

  • LA Life

    August 13, 2009

    When Bad Things Happen to Funny People

    Doug Stanhope, Elayne Boosler, Merrill Markoe and other standups on the pitfalls of comedy

  • Blogs

    May 28, 2009

    Summer Cooking Classes: Mohan Ismail's Southeast Asian Flavors at Rock Sugar and Michael Beglinger's Market Bounty at Larchmont Larder

    Larchmont LarderThe Larchmont Larder has set its summer slate of cooking classes. Chef and co-owner Michael Beglinger teaches Summer Salads on Thursday, June 11. Summer Baking happens on Thursday, July 16, featuring fruit sweets and ice cream from Milk on Beverly. And on August 13, students get thei ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2008

    Nikon's Creepy, Funny S60 Ad Campaign

    These are hilarious. "The Nikon S60 detects up to 12 faces." Look closer.This last one with the tribal men is my favorite. The photos remind me a little of those old photos of people out in the wilderness that "captured" images of fairies and gnomes lurking in the background. Campaign conceptualized ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    June 1, 2006

    Smokey and the Bandit: Special Edition

    These are hilarious. "The Nikon S60 detects up to 12 faces." Look closer.This last one with the tribal men is my favorite. The photos remind me a little of those old photos of people out in the wilderness that "captured" images of fairies and gnomes lurking in the background. Campaign conceptualized ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    February 24, 2005

    Ask Mr. Gold

    These are hilarious. "The Nikon S60 detects up to 12 faces." Look closer.This last one with the tribal men is my favorite. The photos remind me a little of those old photos of people out in the wilderness that "captured" images of fairies and gnomes lurking in the background. Campaign conceptualized ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    April 22, 2004

    Young, Dumb and Full of Cumin

    These are hilarious. "The Nikon S60 detects up to 12 faces." Look closer.This last one with the tribal men is my favorite. The photos remind me a little of those old photos of people out in the wilderness that "captured" images of fairies and gnomes lurking in the background. Campaign conceptualized ... More >>

  • Art+Books

    February 5, 2004

    Newton's Laws

    The late photographer on voyeurism, women as sophisticated animals and David Bowie

  • Music

    July 31, 2003

    Steam Dream

    The late photographer on voyeurism, women as sophisticated animals and David Bowie

  • Eat+Drink

    July 17, 2003

    Ask Mr. Gold

    The late photographer on voyeurism, women as sophisticated animals and David Bowie

  • Eat+Drink

    January 16, 2003

    Ask Mr. Gold

    The late photographer on voyeurism, women as sophisticated animals and David Bowie

  • Art+Books

    December 26, 2002

    Deconstructing Mr. Grinch

    He's green, he's a queen, get used to it!

  • Eat+Drink

    April 19, 2001

    Hainan Chicken

    The cuisine, not the crisis

  • Eat+Drink

    February 17, 2000

    I Dough

    An homage to pasta

  • Eat+Drink

    January 27, 2000

    Korean Comfort Food

    Gook Soo is more than just a noodle

  • News

    December 9, 1999

    The Battle in Seattle

    World-class protest at trade summit may be turning point in fight against right-wing economics

  • Film+TV

    February 25, 1999

    Money No Enough

    Asia's financial crisis has its filmmakers scrounging for dollars

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