To celebrate this Christmas, World Kitchen has proudly sponsored THREE (3) sets of SNAPWARE airtight modular 18-pc box set as giveaway especially for Food 4 Tots’ readers. The suggested retail price for each set is S$60. Each set includes: Two mini nesting bowls (0.5 cup/ 18ml) One teal nesting bowl (3.5 cup/ 828ml) Two mini square containers (1.3 cup/ 314ml) One small rectangle container (2...

  World Kitchen (a leading kitchenware company and manufacturer of Corelle dinnerware) sent two representatives, Mei Fern and Cindy, to pay me a house visit recently. This visit was specifically arranged to identify my kitchen needs, help me to re-organise my kitchen, and introduce to me the range of SNAPWARE products which included Airtight Modular range, Eco One-Touch range, Airtight Plastic Canisters...

  What should I do if my child: – refuses to eat vegetables? – refuses to try new food? – refuses to eat on his own? – is not interested in food? – never sit still during mealtime? – love to watch TV during mealtime?   Do any of these sound familiar to you? These are the questions frequently asked by my readers since I started blogging. When parents or caregivers...

  During our recent holidays, we spent 3 days 2 nights in Cameron Highlands, and it is the first visit for both my son and I.   Located in the state of Pahang, Cameron Highlands is one of the popular holiday destinations in Malaysia. At about 1,500 metres above sea level,  it is the highest area on the mainland with temperature ranging between 15° and 25° Celsius. Its cool climate, tranquility...

Yes, it was a date with Chef Sam, the young, handsome and talented food technologist baker. Rain or shine I must turn up, that’s what I told myself. It was an important and special date for me. On that faithful day, I went along to Orchard Central, with my bag in hand. No, it’s not a lady handbag with make-up stuff but my camera bag filled up with lenses and flash. Got the clue now? Sorry, no prize...

Tomorrow marks the much-awaited double celebrations – the first day of Lunar New Year and Valentine Day! My family is back in Kuala Lumpur to celebrate the New Year with family and friends. So excited to meet with all of them over the next couple of days! I’m sure it’s the same for many of you. I like to wish everyone abundance of prosperity, joy and good health! Have a “Tigerrific” year ahead!...

I will be going back to Singapore tomorrow after 2 weeks holidaying in my hometown Penang. It has been a fantastic break for me. No cooking or houseworks. Best of all is to have many “part-time” caretakers (aka my family members) taking turns to entertain my little boy. What a great relief! LOL! Nevertheless, we can’t wait to go back home and join the Christmas fun. The is the first Christmas...

I had my 2nd food tasting session with a group of Penang food bloggers while holidaying back home in Penang last month on the kind invitation of Criz Lai of Criz Bon Appetite and Mr Tan, the restaurant owner of Ivy’s Kitchen. Ivy’s Kitchen serves pork-free home-cooked dishes, authentic Penang nyonya cuisines, a variety of set meals, steamboat dinner, seafood dinner and fish head curry. Located...

This is Part 2 of my recent invited food review at Ko-Fu-Loft restaurant. The management prepared 2 appetizers, 6 “dim sums”, 6 main dishes and 1 dessert for my group of fellow food bloggers to sample. We started with photo-shooting, then proceed to food tasting and lastly to complete a survey form given by the management with our rating and feedback for the review. The entire event took nearly...

I like to thank  Ligia Menezes, a Brazilian journalist for selecting my photo for her recent article featuring masala chai. Her article, written in Portuguese language, was published in VivaMais magazine (N1) at end May 2009 and is about how to lose weight by drinking masala chai. If you are interested to find out more about her article, you can use this Google translate tool for translation. (N1: VivaMais...