A Breakfast Worth Traveling For Breakfast is included at Homge restaurant in most packages at Spicers Hidden Vale retreat, but we think it’s worth stopping for, while on a day’s meander through the countryside for outside guests too. As I’ve already blabbed on …
What do you do and how did you get into the industry? During my school years in Spain I didn’t like to study much. When I was in high school, I decided one fine day to discontinue my studies altogether – much to my father’s displeasure! After many forms of […]
“Respect for the land, the people and the produce” From paddock to plate, Chef Ash Martin, head of Homage restaurant at Spicers Hidden Vale, knows his produce. Highly valuing the source of every ingredient, if his kitchen team doesn’t grow it, you can just about …
It’s a clichéd beginning, but our breaths are truly swept away entering the Sheraton Mirage Resort and Spa Gold Coast’s stunning lobby. The open expanse is stylishly but minimally decorated, leading out to three-storey floor to ceiling win…
This year, 2014 has been a deliciously wonderful year for The Yum List. We’ve been surprised by some new openings and encouraged to see some old staples maintain their following and quality. It was hard choosing, but here’s our pick of: Best Re…
What do you do and how did you get into the industry? I was made to do what I do. It only took me 17 years to realize this though as it was not a logic choice. Since a kid I wanted to be an architect, then an engineer. I […]
We’ve visited Bali quite a number of times over the last year. Every time we discover new places to eat, and every time we’re amazed with the standard available on this small island. It seems outstanding chefs are drawn to the place and we’re ver…
Stylish design, a hot location and dapper service make the newly opened boutique property, Sofitel So Singapore, a fine choice of stay for business or leisure travel. Situated in the heart of the commercial district, but only a few minutes walk from major ente…
Words: Han Sen Hau Photos: Monica Tindall Christmas in the tropics, particularly in a country like Malaysia, is… celebrated differently than most. For the rest of the world, once December hits, several things start to happen. In New York, Central Park dazz…
Matching Sofitel So Singapore’s practice of delivering the unexpected, Xperience serves up a tantalizing menu in chic designer surrounds. Xperience Honeycomb shaped grey and beige tiles, and pale wood, pave the floor lifting the décor from the ground up wit…
Words: Han Sen Hau Photos: Monica Tindall The walk up to Contango was nothing short of majestic (so pun-ny, yet so true). Greeted by a massive chandelier in the shape of an ocean liner’s hull mirrored on the reflective marble flooring that could survive abuse …
The Peninsula is always amongst the first few hotels rolled off the lips of those-in-the-know when it comes to making hotel recommendations for Hong Kong. The oldest hotel in the city, established in 1928, has many a tale to tell of glamour, scandal, and histor…
