Treasures – Mirror and Watch With Elephant, Birds, and Automata (Qing Dynasty)
Time may change me /
But I can’t trace time
– “Changes”, David Bowie
Month: November 2025
Le Pristine Café Tokyo @ Toranomon Hills
Business lunch for a relatively large group and we picked a nearby lunch spot that served Italian food.
National Treasure – Portrait of Sir Frank Athelstane Swettenham (1904)
One of the most recognisable portrait in Singapore besides Raffles as we grew up with this image in our Social Study textbook.
Dongwon 동원 @ Seoul
Freshwater eel is a very popular dish in Korea, and many restaurants focus on this. I was walking around myContinue Reading
Ransen 藍泉 @ Tokyo (2025)
I have walked past it many times without knowing what cuisine it serves. I would now put it as oneContinue Reading
126 Dim Sum @ Geylang
I grew up around here and this dim sum shop has been my childhood memories. They moved away for aContinue Reading
HL Peninsula Garden @ San Francisco
One last place to have dim sum before leaving San Francisco.
Lest We Forget – The 1938 Changsha Inferno 文夕大火
At the base of Tianxin Pavilion 天心閣 in Changsha, Hunan, there stood a solitary bell to commemorate one of theContinue Reading
Treasures – Painted Pottery Horse (Northern Wei)
This is a painted pottery figure of a caparisoned horse from the Northern Wei dynasty (386–535). These figurines were often placed inContinue Reading
Treasures – Silver Epergne for William Farquhar (c. 1823)
We were led to believe he was sacked for incompetence but actually he should get credits for modern Singapore.