At the entrance of Wild Honey, the signature states “No Place Like Home”. I was half expecting a friendly cosy place where I could relax with my friends, while savouring All-Day Breakfast for dinner.

This is only half-true. Perhaps their definition is home is where people are stone-faced and cannot be bothered to look at you. (Imagine how my brother is when I don’t do the housework.)

However, no doubt about it, Wild Honey is THE place in Singapore to have your eggs and bread any time of the day.

The English ($22.00) – an ensemble of scrambled eggs, back bacon, Cumberland pork sausage, mushrooms, baked beans, potatoes and grilled tomato is one of the best I ever had, even beating many versions from hotels. The eggs are creamy smooth, a perfect match with the huge juicy sausage bursting with flavours. And I haven’t even talked about the de-li-cious sautéed mushrooms.

For its eggs, I would still come back again, despite its service. We had a good meal. What about you – would your favour eggs over service?

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Wild Honey
6 Scotts Road #03-01 Scotts Square, Singapore (Orchard Road MRT) Tel: +65 6636 1816
Other branch: 331A Orchard Road, #03-02 Mandarin Gallery
Opening Hours: 9am – 10pm (Mon-Fri), 9am – 10:30pm (Sat-Sun)

Who won’t be attracted by a seven (or some six) multi-coloured cake? This is for sure to make kids jump with joy and young girls whip out their handphones for a cam moment.

The most popular Rainbow Cake in Singapore is from The Production Kitchen by Jacqui Co (in the midst of relocation), also famous for its carrot and chocolate cakes, and Madagascar vanilla bean cupcakes with salted caramel frosting. They are often swamped with orders, and making each is too labour-intensive.

Its customized 7-inch rainbow cake cost a whooping 100 bucks though.

I had my Rainbow Cake at Le Chocolat Café for $7 a slice, recommended by my friend Elaine and the reliable i-weekly. When the cake arrived, we almost went for an orgasmic “wow”.

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Le Chocolat Café
28 Ann Siang Road, The Club Hotel, Singapore +65 6808 2188
Opening Hours: 8am – 10pm Daily

I have a secret to share – I am a closet fan of ‘Ms Tan’ Kym Ng, plus noodles definitely ranks top on my favourite hawker dish.

In the entire hawker centre at Toa Payoh Lor 4, it was not difficult to find the featured stall – “Pin Xiang 品香” which had the longest queue (about 10 people waiting at 7plus am).

The stall owner was entertaining to watch, very friendly and animated, apologizing to loyal customers for the sudden long queue.

The dumpling noodles ($2.50 alone, $1 to add chicken or mushrooms) does not disappoint! The QQ noodles is coated with the tasty dark soya sauce which is very KL-style, and marinated mushrooms (must have been marinated for days) is so awesome flavourful.

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Pin Xiang Noodles 品香
Blk 93 Toa Payoh Lor 4 #01-46
Opening Hours: 4:45am – 11:00am (Closes on Mon)

How does cold ramen, soba and white noodles cooked ‘pasta-style’ sound to you? Or ‘Ice Cube’ ($3.00), which is cold tofu with Thai-infused sauce.

My friend Kenny who just works upstairs at One Raffles Place says he never tried this noodle bar because he would never eat strange noodles called Dolphin, Penguin, Whale and Seal. True that it sounds quite wrong. But these noodles are so-called, because they are named after animals staying in the cold climate.

Wheat Baumkuchen which is unglam-ly located next to an escalator, proves to be a hit with OLs aka office ladies at the CBD. Let’s just say eating these noodles feels like downing a bowl of salad. You won’t feel guilty at all eating this.

The OL popular dish seems to be the Penguin ($7.80 for a set with lemon tea) – green soba noodles with shredded chicken, fried eggs, quail eggs, Japanese cucumber mixed in roasted sesame sauce. The overall combination is very refreshingly oishii, and somewhat makes you feel you are dining at some foreign country.

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Wheat Baumkuchen Pastry & Noodle Bar
1 Raffles Place, #B1-15 One Raffles Place (OUB Centre), Singapore (Raffles Place) Tel: +65 6535 0277
Opening Hours: 8am – 8pm (Mon–Fri)

Some call this place at The Rail Mall a ‘canteen’, with a deli featuring house brand Thai goods, titbits (such as floss crackers) and curry kits.

Sweet Salty Spicy’s menu is a collaboration with the famous “Sailors Thai” restaurant in Sydney’s Rock’s District. Therefore, the Thai food served generally has a modern take, with the taste rather muted possibly to suit the ‘ang moh’ expat crowd frequenting here.

For the spicy, the Curry Triplets ($18) is a value-for-money must-order, where you can select any three from Panang, Green, Massaman, Roast Duck or Jungle Curry.

Do you know that the Thai Massaman Curry is chosen as the world’s MOST delicious food by CNNGo? Indeed, its taste is an exciting combination of coconut-ty, salty, spicy and slightly sweet – which should really be the most representative dish in this restaurant.

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Sweet Salty Spicy
392/394 Upper Bukit Timah Road, The Rail Mall, Singapore 678047, Tel: +65 6877 2544
Opening Hours: Lunch: 11am–2pm, Dinner: 6pm–11pm (Mon–Fri), Lunch: 11am – 4pm, Dinner: 6pm–11pm (Sat, Sun, PH)

There is a ‘Create-Your-Own’ salad counter where you can select any of the 50 plus ingredients along with many choices of homemade salad dressings.

Philippe Blin, Managing Director, Fresh+, says “From my experience as an Investment Banker for over 20 years, good and healthy food can bring people together and make the meeting so much more productive. Ordinary food achieves opposite results.”

I had a prawn & avocado salad ($12.00) which came in a really big white bowl, with generous portions of lettuce and cucumber. The salad is indeed crisp-fresh and healthy tasting with a zest of lemon. Some may find that using only lemon juice as a dressing being too plain, but we think that the overall combination feels invigorating and reviving.

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Fresh+
Asia Square Food Garden, 8 Marina View, #02-11
Opening Hours: Mon-Fri 8am – 9pm

The idea of Curry Udon may put some off because both seem ‘thick’. Trust me, I do not even enjoy udon but 古奈屋 Konaya’s version is very memorable. Konaya is a chain of restaurant famous for its unusual take on curry udon with additional sides such as deep fried banana and onsen poached eggs, and has spread its wings to Taiwan and Thailand.

Here’s what special about its curry: TWENTY TWO types of fruits and spices are thrown into a pot and cooked thoroughly for THREE days until the sauce becomes really creamy and slightly special.

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Sugamo Konaya 古奈屋
Roppongi Hills 六本木ヒルズ North Tower B1F, 6-2-31 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan (Roppongi). Tel: 03-5775-0578
Opening Hours: 11:00am – 11:00pm Daily

Brand new hotdog shop Purple Mustard has opened its doors at Icon Village near Village, bringing American-style goodness.

And who says that mustard has to be yellow in colour? One of Purple Mustard’s co-owners absolutely love the colour purple, and the culinary team decided to put together their very own purple mustard!

If you are wondering, no, their purple mustard is not made of colourings but from Jim Bean-soaked blueberries. This freshly-coloured mustard is topped on their signature ‘Barnyard Dog’ ($9) which has beef and guinness sausage and generous toppings of caramelised onions. The sausage is moist and juicy, yet not too fatty. And it is the unique purple mustard sauce with a sweet fruity aftertaste which blew me away.

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Purple Mustard (Icon Village)
12 Gopeng Street, #01-31/32 ICON Village (near Tanjong Pagar MRT), Tel: +65 6221 8498
Opening Hours: Mon–Fri: 11am – 9pm; Sat: 12pm – 9pm (Closed on Sun)

Despite using this bag for about 5 years, some people still come up to me and say they like it. And I end up feeling proud for ‘him’ because he has been through with me many highs and low. ‘He’ is a Muji, bought somewhere in Tokyo. I would like to say my bag is steady, sturdy, understated and no-frills.

This camera, a Canon 550D is a prize won from the InSing hawker food lovers’ competition – whom I end up being a writer for. Despite having other cameras, this is my favourite because I had to eat and guess crocodile meat blind-folded to win it.

Other than the Canon, my iPhone4 has become a reliable tool for my food shoots, especially for Instagram where iphonography is in the rage. The iTouch is my travel companion because I travel long distances to work. It is currently filled with sermons, Hillsongs and lots of Latino music.

Interviewing F&B entrepreneurs, cooks and hawkers can be a challenging yet rewarding experience, allowing me to understand what goes behind that dish I am eating. Most of these recordings via this Sony mp3 recorder end up being played on my radio programme on Radio1003 every Sunday mornings.

Even though my wallet is almost torn apart, there is huge sentimental value to me as it is a gift. Oh yes, other than keeping cash, I remind myself to keep all my receipts because they remind me how much I am spending on food – which can be a high percentage of my salary!

This is a surprise find in a food blogger’s bag – sports attire! A reminder that we eat too much and need to say healthy. Staying in shape is really hard for me, since it’s in my genes (I used to be really fat). Food blogging doesn’t help. I make it a point to hit the gym at least 3 times a week. Crazy discipline I know. Those yellow sticks are Zumba Toning weights which add resistance while doing classes.

Let me introduce you Kaze, who never fails to travel with me. I hope to bring him to 50 different countries, to try great foods from these wondrous countries. The target is still far, and my dream continues to achieve it.

On a more up-market level, All-Breakfast joints are taking the lead and many Western eateries are coming up with their own versions of the humble poached eggs. Attacking customers after their meal is the dessert called chocolate lava cake, also making their way into many cafe menus. And on the Chinese restaurant side, how many haven’t tried the Shanghainese Xiao Long Bao?

What do they all have in common? They ooze.

Daniel’s Food Diary rounds up 5 popular foods in Singapore, which have captured our hearts, which ooze, literally.

The Eggs Benedict is a dish that consists of two halves of an English muffin, topped with ham or bacon, poached eggs and Hollandaise sauce. Its attractiveness is perhaps because Singaporeans already like the half-cooked eggs. Look at the Yakuns, Toast Boxes and ramens shops with their half-boiled eggs. Plus who can resist when the oozing yolk flows and gets absorbed by a sweet roasted muffin.

Get your supply from Wild Honey
, Eggs & Berries, Choupinette and Hatched – where you can have poached eggs for dinner.

Xiao Long Bao, more affectionately known as XLB, are known as ‘soup dumplings’ where the soup gelatin inside melts when they are heated. You can pop the entire XLB into your mouth, or more correctly poke a small hole at the top and suck the oozing soup stock within.

The most well-liked restaurant in Singapore has to be Ding Tai Fung, the Taiwanese brand which ranked as one of the world’s Top Ten Best Restaurants by The New York Times. Paradise Dynasty with its multi-coloured XLB has earned a royal following, including myself.

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