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WINE&DINE
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October14
IN HOT WATER
There’s nothing like finding your $12
tub of raspberries covered in mould the
day after you bought them, especially
after you took great pains to wash, dry
and refrigerate them. The good news is
that one tiny tweak to your routine may
change this. New research shows you
can significantly prolong the life of your
berries by rinsing the fruit in hot water
rather than cold. In a process called
thermotherapy, rinsing berries, grapes
and stone fruit in water of temperatures
ranging between 45 and a whopping 63
degrees Celsius (or 113 to 145 degrees
Fahrenheit) staves off mould for days.
EASIEST
ORDER EVER
Once you get used to big tables
of communal food à la Asian style,
the Western practice of “pick
one meal from the menu” seems
unnecessarily cruel. That why
Halia
at Raffles Hotel
is introducing a
communal menu where diners can
feast on Euro-Asian dishes that are
shared by the entire table. Choose
either the light ($160, serves
four) or the hearty option ($270,
serves four), and feast on dishes
like wild honey goats’ cheese
mousse, chilli crab dip, minced
beef “Zhajiangmian” (where the
noodles are replaced with long
vegetable strips), twice-cooked
spatchcocked spring chicken, and
much more. A definite crowd-
pleaser. Raffles Hotel #01-22.
Call 9639 1148 or visit
www.thehalia.com/raffles.The latest trends in food and wine
WHAT’S NEW
Float this Idea
Singapore is short on space, yet full of hawker’s centres. So
why not float a few out to sea? That’s the idea being proposed
by Spark Architects – the masterminds behind a floating
hawker centre, called
Solar Orchid
, made up of solar-powered
hawker station pods that would pop up in a variety of locations
and formats around the city. No word on whether this is a
go or not, but sources say that plans are being made to have
this project ready in time for SG50, the big bash in honour of
Singapore’s 50th birthday next year.