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
Judging Wines
Judging the Judges

The perils of rating wines are many and, well, perilous. Can it be that the educated palate isn’t educated at all? Is… read more
Chef Luke Mangan
A quick bite of Sushi with Chef Luke Mangan at Akashi, Singapore

Chef Luke Mangan has just blackberry-ed me, “Could do a quick sushi at 1pm, Orchard Parade Hotel?” He’s jetted in from LA… read more
Bauer takes his biodynamics very seriously
New Zealand’s Quiet Achiever: Rudi Bauer, Quartz Reef

Walter Bourke Homage – Pinot Noir Producer of the Year Must-Have Wines Best of the Lunar Year – 2010 – Year of… read more
The canes of the goblet are so straight that disease is hardly an issue
Singapore Sommelier Shalom Chin Provence Blog Part 2 – A Day in Bandol

Part 2 of the Provence wine series Provence is a land with 300 days of sun, little rain, low humidity and a… read more
Burghound Vosne Romanee vineyard panaroma
Must-Have Wine Book of the Year

‘The Pearl of the Côte – the Great Wines of Vosne-Romanée’ – Allen Meadows of Burghound.com Notwithstanding this touchstone book is the… read more
Balhannah overlooking dam, Australia
Marlborough hits and myths

Cloudy Bay may have put a certain white wine and a region on the map but Australian expertise started the trend. Despite… read more
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