The Waterhouse Hotel
The Waterhouse is a trendy boutique hotel containing Jason Atherton’s Table No. 1 restaurant, and a rooftop bar. The newly remodelled Shanghai Bund has proven popular with hotel brands looking to cash in on Shanghai’s ever-growing popularity. From the cool new Waterhouse on the South Bund to the austere Art Deco glamor of The Peninsula, […]
Interview: Chad Butler (Switchfoot)
Ahead of Switchfoot’s maiden gig on our shores, drummer Chad Butler chats with I-S about their new album.
Chat with Wing Shya
Patrick Benjamin talks to the renowned Hong Kong lensman who makes the occasional foray into other fields like graphic design and film, and finds out what makes him clicker happy.
Limoncello Italian Pizza & Grill
If there’s a better location along the Singapore River than the gorgeous, half-moon expanse of wooden patio in front of newbie Italian restaurant Limoncello, we haven’t found it yet. It’s a different story if it rains, of course, but even then you have a cozy interior—all stone walls and flowing water—to take refuge in. The […]
Trust Organic Health
Amid the flurry of Chinese restaurants, seafood joints and cool cafes in the busy Joo Chiat vicinity comes the much welcome alternative Trust Organic Health, a modest three-month-old organic café. Located directly opposite the excellent Chinese Tonny Restaurant (which received a five-star review from us just last week), Trust may not be drawing in the […]
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Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami is that rare author who has achieved both acclaim and popularity within his lifetime. He’s most certainly at the top of the heap, or above and beyond it, when it comes to authors you must read in order to be taken seriously by literary types. For those who don’t read, yet want to […]