Wee Nam Kee Hainanese chicken rice - A Singapore staple
The Best of Singapore – An Ang Mo’s View

For the uninitiated, The Wandering Palate website is for all intensive purposes, a blog of my disordered thoughts and utterances; incoherencies, mental… read more
Pegasus Pinot Noir vertical - closeup
Wine Feng Shui – Most Auspicious Wine for the Year of the Black Water Dragon 2012

Most Auspicious Wine for Chinese New Year 2012 Year of the Black Water Dragon year Pegasus Bay Prima Donna Pinot Noir 2009… read more
Cool Climate Wines
The Wandering Palate – Best of the Lunar Year – Wine Book of the Year 2011 – Cool Climate Wines 媒体资料白葡萄酒经典 by Michael Thurner & Susie Wu

I always approach the Wandering Palate ‘Wine Book of the Year’ with trepidation, partly because wine books can be rather droll for… read more
Would you eat this?
The Broccoli Conspiracy

I’m not sure if it was broccoli or brussel sprouts that I hated more as a kid. Boiled to the point of… read more
Rick Stein - Whole Dover Sole meunière with noisette butter
The Big Fish – Rick Stein’s The Seafood Restaurant

I have been wanting to dine at Rick Stein’s ‘The Seafood Restaurant’ in Padstow, Cornwall for years and having finally satisfied this… read more
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The crusty red iron-rich soils of Jas d'esclans an example of the great variation of soil types in Provence
Shalom Chin – Provence Part 5 – Fréjus and the surrounding parts of Côtes de Provence

Final Part of the Provence wine series. Many wines tasted with personal opinions. I believe that to end the Provence series, it… read more
At the base of Sainte-Victoire at Domaine de Saint-Ser
Shalom Chin – Provence Part 4 – Sainte-Victoire – a Gem of the Côte de Provence

Sainte-Victoire – a Gem of the Côte de Provence Part 4 of the Provence wine series There is no doubt in my… read more
Noel Young at Imperial Treasure Super Peking Duck - yes the pictures a bit blury, as was the evening
The Duck Run – Maverick Wine Merchant Noel Young in Singapore

Legendary English wine merchant, Noel Young, jetted into Singapore for a brief one night stopover, coming from Australia on-route back to the… read more
South Melbourne Market Fishmonger
The Great Australian Shutdown

Domiciled for Christmas festivities, no sooner had the turkey digested The Wandering Palate was in peripatetic mode, Melbourne bound and yearning for… read more
Maybe if I stand here long enough, I might gain both international recognition and a posh palate
Posh Palate in London

Scrolling through the picture downloads this morning I came across this snap of the Wandering Palate outside the hallowed shop front of… read more
Ruth Pretty about to carve - what appears to be a Moa
Ruth Pretty cooks 15 kgs turkey on the rotisserie

Pictures just through from our good friends Paul and Ruth Pretty Ruth Pretty, guru caterers and legendary hosts to the stars (and… read more
How to Cook Everything
How to Cook Everything – Completely revised Tenth Anniversary Edition, Mark Bittman

I have a confession. I did not know who Mark Bittman was until 3 years ago when friends from the US, Stacy… read more
Club Dancers
Moshi Moshi Bollywood

And they say Singapore is boring and sterile… Well, you might revaluate this sweeping statement once you have been enmeshed and seduced… read more
Chateau Branaire Ducru, built in 1824
Rebirth in Bordeaux

The French region is enjoying an extraordinary period of prosperity for a variety of reasons, writes Curtis Marsh. While I continue to… read more
Cambodia's Newspaper of Record
Artisan Wine

Many colleagues today bemoan that we are losing our true winemaking artisans to a kind of oenological ‘industrial revolution’, where wines are… read more
Ronald Brown - Wine to Water
Wine into Water – Cambodia

Our Cambodian correspondent, Darren Gall, tells a fascinating story of an Australian maverick winemaker building water wells for the poor in Cambodia… read more
Winebar
Start Your Own Wine Bar at Home!

With the very nature of wine appreciably less intimidating nowadays and a growing familiarity amongst the populace, a glass of wine is… read more
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