life outside the viewfinder

Bentley’s

kintarasan — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:36:08 +0000

For the last few years I've started the Taste of London festival with Bentley's oysters though never quite managed to get to Richard Corrigan's place itself. With both IT Girl and myself being promoted that was quickly remedied.

Khana Commune Supper Club Revisited

kintarasan — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:02:08 +0000

After such a good meal last time at the Khana Commune supper club, I returned here with IT Girl for her first supper club experience.

Reunion Dinner

kintarasan — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:13:56 +0000

Returning to my parents for reunion dinner - traditionally held on Chinese New Year's Eve - Dad outdid his Christmas feast and served up a tremendous meal for all of us.

Lunching in Soho – Part 3

kintarasan — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 14:21:22 +0000

Following Part 2, here's three more options in this continuing series about where to get a takeaway lunch in Soho.

Pitt Cue Co Soho

kintarasan — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 18:15:16 +0000

From its humble beginnings in a truck under Hungerford Bridge, Pitt Cue Co is back with vengeance serving up some of the best barbecued meat in Central London for only £10 a plate that will still leave you craving for more. Simply put - you have to go.

Redhook

kintarasan — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:02:06 +0000

After our last monthly get together at Pearl with See Yun and Wendy, our next destination was a seafood dinner at Redhook that Twitter told me about.

Christmas Feasting

kintarasan — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:42:37 +0000

It's amazing how quickly the year goes by and Christmas suddenly swings by again. But always with that warm cloak of familiarity from Christmases past spent with my parents.

A New Year & A New Design

kintarasan — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:42:19 +0000

What started out as a retrospective look over my posts in 2011 turned out to be the trigger for a complete overhaul of my entire website design to bring in new features for the new year.

Chocolate Tasting at Paul Young

kintarasan — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 23:21:00 +0000

With IT Girl now addicted to Paul Young chocolate ever since we started dating, a chocolate tasting with them was the perfect way to thank her letting me fly off for three weeks to travel and photograph Central America.

Yauatcha

kintarasan — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 22:47:33 +0000

Half-jokingly suggesting to my manager that we should dine at Yauatcha after our all day team workshop at the company expense, I was half delighted and half mortified (since I was the one logging the expense!) when he asked me to book a table for the 20 of us.