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Monday, March 19, 2012 Okay, so I’m updating the blog a lot sooner than I thought I’d be. But that’s only because today’s message is SUPER IMPORTANT. Which is that voting for the 2012/2013 edition of The Miele Guide is now open! Over the past 5 years, my business partners, colleagues and I (not at Chubby Hubby but at Ate) have produced 4 annual editions of what is still the only independent and regional restaurant guide to Asia. The guide has grown from strength to strength each year, gaining more and more credibility within the industry–and we very much owe that to you guys. We’re very grateful for your participation. Almost 20,000 of you took part in the public vote last year. And with thousands of restaurants across 18 countries vying for just 500 spots in our guide (not to mention the Asia’s Top 20 rankings), every vote counts. We want this year’s voting pool to be our biggest ever. So please vote. Please tell your friends to vote. If you’re a fellow blogger or a journalist, please encourage your readers and fans to vote. If you at all care about dining out in Asia or about recognizing great culinary talent, please take part in this vote. If you have ever felt that past results of the guide didn’t reflect what you believe to be Asia’s best restaurants, please vote. Let us know which restaurants you feel are Asia’s best… by voting. Your opinion, and your vote, matters.        Posted by Chubby Hubby 1 comment 
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Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Hi everyone. It’s been a really long time since I’ve been active here. I thought I would share some recent photos with you guys. S and I took off for a super fast 3 day trip to Tokyo last week in order to celebrate her birthday. While we would have loved to have stayed longer, we had to get back in time for my son’s first birthday, which is only 3 days after S’s birthday. Yup, little T is now one year old and he’s the cutest kid on the planet (but hey, I’m biased!). We managed to pack in some amazing eating in our short trip, as follows. Day 1: An oily, soupless ramen with pork belly and soft-boiled egg from Abura Soba Sohonten for brekkie; deliciously fatty katsu at Butagumi for lunch; and the best sushi of my life at Sushi Sho in Yotsuya (seriously, this place has no Michelin stars–but has appeared in The Miele Guide year after year–and for my money was far better than any other sushi meal I have ever had in my entire life, including more famous places like Sushi Saito, Kyubey, or Mizutani) for dinner. Day 2: Lots of yummy pastries from Isetan Shinjuku’s food hall for brekkie; manju from Higashiya Omotesando as a midday snack; burgers at Blacows mid-afternoon; and a beautiful Modern Japanese multi-course extravaganza at Aronia de Takazawa to celebrate S’s birthday. Day 3: breakfast pastries at Laduree Ginza; good but overpriced sushi at Sushi Mizutani for lunch; wagashi at Higashiya Ginza after lunch; and super fun Yakiniku with lots of premium sake at Sutamina-en to end the day (followed by a mad dash to Haneda). Anyway, here are some snaps from the trip. (I’ve also been playing with a fun CCTV 25mm f1.4 lens for my GF1, hence the Lomo-ish style pix with lots of bokeh.)
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Wednesday, August 3, 2011 First and foremost, I want to thank everyone for reading this blog and supporting me over the past 6 and a half years. It is amazing to think that this blog started as a simple experiment back in 2005. I have loved meeting readers and fellow bloggers. I have been amazed at the fantastic emails I have received from even more readers. It really has been a thrilling experience, and an incredibly rewarding one. That said, I am going to be taking a short break from blogging. The combination of my work and fatherhood has prevented me from really giving this site the attention it deserves. But, that doesn’t mean you have heard the last from me. I hope to be able to relaunch this site, with a new design and a new style of pushing out content, and hopefully with renewed energy, in about 6 months from now. In the meantime, I will keep tweeting, at least more often than I was blogging. My twitter handle is aunkoh. Please follow me. Til then, happy eating and again, thank you. Posted by Chubby Hubby 31 comments
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Friday, April 29, 2011
Yesterday afternoon, I had the great pleasure of attending the local (Singapore) launch of the Singapore International Culinary Exchange (SPICE for short) and the unveiling of the Singapore Takeout. The Singapore Takeout is a custom-fabricated shipping container that, with the push of a button, transforms into a pop-up kitchen. This flying kitchen has been engineered so that it can be used for both demonstrations as well as a proper, working pop-up restaurant kitchen.
Singapore Takeout will feature some of Singapore’s current crop of top chefs as well as our very best food products. The Takeout leaves our shores next week, setting sail for London. From there, it will travel to Paris, Moscow, New York, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Delhi, Dubai, and Sydney. The chefs representing Singapore include (as pictured from left to right at the top photo of this post) Andre Chiang, Haikal Johari, Malcolm Lee, Benjamin Seck, Janice Wong, Willin Low, Ryan Clift, Armin Leitgeb, and the team from Iggy’s (represented by Ignatius Chan in the photo). In most of the destinations, one or more of each city’s celebrity chefs will be asked to work alongside our local chefs. Each pop-up event will last 3 days, during which the paired chefs will serve up amazing Singapore-inspired dishes at private and public events, as well as conduct demonstrations and workshops. (Keep reading) Posted by Chubby Hubby 10 comments
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011
So, there’s a small reason I haven’t had time to post for a while. 3.075 kilos small to be exact. On 10 March, my darling wife S and I became parents (for the first time). Our little boy–we’ll call him T on this site–is a real cutie and has been keeping both of us very busy. S is doing very, very well and I’m slowly getting used to fatherhood. My new favourite time of each day is my 945pm bottle feed duty. It’s one of the only times on weekdays at which I get to spend some real quality time with T. And since I come visiting with 120ml of delicious mama’s milk, he’s always happy to see me. I’ll get back to blogging soon. Next up will be the brioche recipe that we use for our burger buns. So, thanks for your continued patience and support. Posted by Chubby Hubby 63 comments
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