Stella McCartney
For something structured yet playful, look no further than Stella McCartney’s latest collection which plays with geometry in fresh and hyper-realistic colors. Elliptical shapes of white, bright orange and black flow on sheer linear dresses, while ultra-fine silk rib knits worn under micro-plisse create a slimming silhouette. Spearmint and paper white gauze knits will also […]
Twinpalms Phuket
This beach resort offers a Thai-Western restaurant Oriental Spoon Grill & Bar, a beach club, spa and private yacht charter.
Melvados Café
This café calls itself Singapore’s only specialty brownie café. Check out creations like Nuts about Bananas and Sizzling Brownie Sensation.
The Vintage Room
The buzz: As if there aren’t already enough reasons to make the trek to Duxton Hill, newcomer The Vintage Room (occupying the former digs of sister establishment Le Petit Cancale) joins in the fun. The décor: The bar retains some of Le Petit Cancale’s Old World charm, but has bumped up the quirkiness factor with […]
Tim Ho Wan
Housed in a relaxed 100-seat space in Plaza Singapura is the first overseas outpost of this famed Michelin-starred Hong Kong dim sum institution, care of chef Mak Kwai Pui. Highlights not to be missed include pan-fried carrot cake ($4.50), vermicelli roll with pig’s liver ($5.50), and Mak’s signature baked buns with BBQ pork ($4.50). There […]
Park
Housed in an eco-friendly shack constructed from an old shipping container and powered by solar energy, this place serves bar bites like sage and anchovy risotto ($12.80), spam chips ($8.50) and smoked duck tacos ($10.50) as well as cakes such as red velvet ($8.90), lemon meringue ($8.90) and dark chocolate ($9.90). In the morning, they […]
Serenity
A six–room establishment, this place offers guided walks of its surrounding spice gardens and rubber plantations, elephant rides, cooking demonstrations and ayurveda and alimentation lectures. Book a room at Serenity Kerala, India on Mr & Mrs Smith
Purity
This six-room waterfront resort at Lake Vembanad—70 kilometers south of Kochi—is designed in the style of a Roman villa. The place offers an experienced in-house ayurvedic doctor and an ayurvedic menu.
The Pooting Panda
Alice in Asylum: Alice finds a safe haven in Geylang
We hit secret pop-up dining experience Alice in Asylum over the weekend, which went down—rather surprisingly—in red light district Geylang. The location wasn’t revealed until 24 hours before the party, but the undisclosed venue had been touted as an award-winning shophouse. So we’d assumed it’d be one of the many high falutin city restaurants like […]