Cherie Lok
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 13
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- Sep 26, 2026
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- Jul 11, 2026
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Why you keep seeing the same stalls at new hawker centres (opens the original)
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Sign up now: Weekly recommendations for the best eats in town Popular food brands are among the stalls at Woodleigh Village Hawker Centre. SINGAPORE – Walk into any modern hawker centre today and there are a few things you might notice at first glance: big fans; high, airy ceilings; and a Munchi Pancakes stall in the corner. By now a fixture of the local street food scene, the brand has stalls in 11 of 16 socially conscious enterprise hawker centres, or SEHCs, as hawker centres built after 2015
Astons in 7-Eleven: Why local restaurants are turning their dishes into ready meals (opens the original)
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Sign up now: Weekly recommendations for the best eats in town 7-Eleven’s section for ready meals features collaborations with local food and beverage brands. SINGAPORE – There are many reasons why one might resort to raiding the ready-to-eat section at 7-Eleven at lunch or dinner time. Desperation is often cited as the primary motivator. But what about curiosity? Or genuine interest? What might convince someone to pick a microwaved meal over a plate of freshly cooked food from a hawker centre or
Here today, there tomorrow: Are pop-ups worth it for small businesses? (opens the original)
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Sign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inbox Outdoor market Artbox Singapore in 2019. The rise of pop-ups coincided with a cultural shift away from ownership-based consumption. SINGAPORE – In an ideal world, Danial Roslan would have his own physical store, a homey, Instagrammable unit evoking the breezy serenity of an Italian villa. The interior designer by training has mapped out the space in his mind: The cashier is on the right side of the store; a salesperson in a lab coat is st
Breakfast for dinner: Why do some restaurants in Singapore stay open 24/7? (opens the original)
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Sign up now: Weekly recommendations for the best eats in town SINGAPORE – Few people would describe Singapore these days as a city that never sleeps. Perhaps, having just turned 61 and lumbering past middle age, it has outgrown the all-night benders of youth. Its infrastructure has followed suit. SMRT’s Night Rider bus clocked in its last shift in 2022, and liquor licensing hours were shortened in 2013 to curb disorder, though they have been tentatively extended to 4am again in nightlife hot spo
Local legend or tourist trap? 111 years of the Singapore Sling (opens the original)
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Sign up now: Weekly recommendations for the best eats in town Legend has it that the Singapore Sling was invented in Long Bar in 1915. SINGAPORE – You know it by its shade: Coral red, the colour of a sunset at its deepest. A “delicious, slow-acting, insidious thing”, as American food writer Charles H. Baker once described it, invented in 1915 as an act of benevolent subterfuge, and shackled to Long Bar’s menu by popular demand ever since. So goes the story of the Singapore Sling, according to Th
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