Makan Kakis with Denise Tan

It's a sweet finish to our special feature on some of the best eats to spend your CDC Vouchers on and this final installment is for the chocolate lovers. Bringing a little high-end to the heartland, Mr Bucket Chocolaterie is located at the foot of an HDB block along Sin Ming Road. The brand’s exquisite chocolates originate from regional producers including Malaysia, Vietnam, India & The Philippines. Unusual flavours and collaborations with local brands help give them a little edge. Mala, Calamansi and soya sauce-flavoured chocolate bon bons, anyone?

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Fresh off his win in July, MasterChef Singapore Season 3 winner Johnathan Chew, whose grandmother once sold kway chap & braised meats, suggested that I visit a relative’s stall for laksa that was “a cut above the rest”. Intrigued by the aspiring chef’s deep familial ties to hawker food, I headed for a kopitiam in the Tiong Bahru area and found a loaded, lemak laksa worth spending your CDC Vouchers on...

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Ever on the hunt for new taste experiences, it shamed me to realise that while I’m a big fan of peppery sup kambing (mutton soup), I’ve never actually tried its decidedly more flamboyant relative, sup tulang merah. In Malay it literally means soup red bone, in reference to the brightly-coloured mutton shank stew. It’s an Indian Muslim dish that can truly be considered one hundred percent local, having been invented right here in Singapore over sixty years ago. I had heard good things about how the dish was done at Deen Tiga Rasa, so I headed over to Golden Mile Food Centre for my first-ever taste of sup tulang merah...

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This is Part 5 of our Makan Kakis x CNA Lifestyle series featuring some of the best eats to spend your CDC vouchers on.

Singaporeans love a food fad. We’ve been enthralled by Taiwanese bubble tea, Korean bingsu and Japanese souffle pancakes. But sometimes, all you want is the sweet relief of something familiar, comforting and local. When it comes to desserts, I’m in agreement with my Makan Kaki, co-owner of Seafood Restaurant Diamond Kitchen & Modern Japanese Izakaya iKO, Lambert Chen. He’s a big fan of the ice jelly at Teck Kee Hot & Cold Dessert, which has been serving residents in the Bukit Timah area for almost thirty areas, myself included...

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Hello Makan Kakis! We continue our Makan Kakis x CNA Lifestyle series featuring some of the best eats to spend your CDC vouchers on with a popular South Asian street food - the lesser known kothu prata...

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This is Part 3 of our special series featuring some of the best eats to spend your CDC Vouchers on! There’s regular ban mian and then there’s ban mian distilled through the creative minds of professional chefs with decades of experience between them. The result? Loaded handmade noodles from new kid on the block Yanan Ban Mian Noodle, which came highly recommended by my Makan Kaki, food entrepreneur Jeremy Nguee of gourmet caterer Preparazzi. Impressed by their craftsmanship, he was especially excited for me to try their “can’t be missed” ban mian... Listen now for all the delicious details!

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We continue our special series featuring the best eats to spend your CDC Vouchers on and this week, we’re going to try a hearty breakfast bean stew called ful, that has its origins in North Africa and the Middle East. It's now made its way to Singapore, with a few tweaks to suit our local palates and a name that has evolved to kacang pool. With a name like that, you know you've got to dive right into the signature dish at Kacang Pool Mustafa at Geylang Serai Food Centre...

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Our Makan Kakis x CNA Lifestyle collaboration is back! This season, we bring you a new series featuring the best eats to spend your CDC Vouchers on. In this first episode, we feature yummy curry chicken, as recommended by our foodie friend, restaurateur Lambert Chen, co-owner of Diamond Kitchen & Modern Japanese Izakaya iKO. Listen/ download the podcast, read the story and watch the video now!

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We complete this 3-part National Day series for the month of August revisiting a special feature on a creamy, spicy, local noodle favourite. Over the years, different hawkers have found fame with their own special version of laksa lemak, so whether you prefer your laksa with or without hum (cockles), or noodles eaten with a spoon instead of chopsticks, listen now for three places recommended by Gold 905 listeners that we think are noteworthy...

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We welcome yet another new Makan Kaki this week - Masterchef Singapore Season 2 alumni, avid home cook and the Thosai expert behind private dining outfit Culinary Optional, Spice Queen Chef Vasun Ramasamy! In this latest episode, she tells us all about her forthcoming cultural culinary collab with Chef Damian D'Silva at his restaurant Rempapa. Expect delicious, meticulously crafted thosai and chutneys at this one-day-only luncheon on Saturday 13th August!

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