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55,000 fans enjoyed Singapore Rugby 7s - Family Sevens [SINGAPORE,  29 APRIL 2018 ]:   Fiji won its third HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series tournament in a row with a thrilling  28-22 win over Australia, who reached their first Cup final since winning their home event in Sydney earlier this year - on new coach Tim Walsh’s first outing with the team. The four-time titlists this season also climbed into first place on the Series ladder on 145 points, four ahead of South Africa, who ran England close in the Bronze medal match, losing 26-24. Fiji won in gripping fashion after close-run affairs over New Zealand (third on the series) in the quarterfinal and South Africa (series leaders heading into this weekend) in the semis. Coach Gareth Baber’s squad needed last-minute tries all afternoon with Josua Vakurunabili’s tally in the last seconds sealing the win over the Kiwis and Eroni Sau’s score off of an attacking scrum putting them home over an injury-hi...

Behold a fortuitous feast by Amara Singapore’s team of dedicated Chinese chefs, all prepped to serve you dishes symbolic of prosperity, fortune and happiness to your family and relatives. On the 15 February 2018 from 6pm at the Grand Ballroom, the one-time reunion dinner is opened to all guests celebrating this Lunar New Year’s 2018 Earth Dog. Guests can look forward to the tossing of salmon yu sheng, where the ingredients are exquisitely arranged in the shape of a dog. The reunion dinner is followed by a sumptuous line-up of culinary haven with affordable 8-course menus which guests can choose from. The Golden Prosperity at S$68++ or Joyous Abundance at S$88 per person with a minimum of six persons per table. For that extra posh and private dining experience, guests can take up the Imperial Fortune reunion package at S$1,888++ for a table of 10 persons. Each room comes with a fully equipped family karaoke system. The menu comes with dishes like sea urchin, black chic...

Yoaz! Fullerton Hotel facade in Singapore would be showing a nice bear video from 25 Dec to 31 Dec 2017. Do go check it out! Marina Bay Singapore countdown 2018 would be a fun day out for families with lots of activities on 31 Dec 2017. Activities like hourly fireworks display till midnight, zumba dance at the lawn area, picnic on the floating platform, music and movies screening at the Esplanade area. Pretty nice for families and friends to gather on 31 Dec 2017 at Marina Day area! Do check out the below Fullerton Hotel video with lots of nice moving graphics!

IZA a new restaurant opened recently in the trendy Siglap area. Iza your locaal Izakaya Bar is located at 695 East Coast Road. The people behind The Skewer Bar in Geylang works in collaboration with this new place to come up with a trendy and new menu. Mrupupup went to Iza to try out the food and was pretty yummy. Loved small bites Japanese skewers. This place sells Singapore infused menus with things like Hai Bee Hiam (kind of local spicy shrimp). Another example of fusion way of coming up with dish like putting salted egg into the chawamunsi (Japanese steam egg dish). Another dish would be a the Tomago Otah which had egg rolls wrapping otah pieces (yummy)! The place and food was nice and Mrupupup enjoyed the relaxing nature with cold Asahi beer and Japanese skewer sticks made it a nice evening spent with friends. The menu prices are pretty ok, except for the sea bass fish dish which costs $28. The skewer prices range from $3 to $5. The staff was attentive and the chefs making t...

Asia Fighting Championships 2017 was held recently in Singapore's Marina Bay Sands. Basically it was Muay Thai (thai style) fighting action at the Marina Bay Sands Exhibition Hall. The fights were intense and people were very enthralled by the many fights happening on that day. Check out the video whereby one Singaporean won his bout!

Singapore in Merlion Cup Basketball Semi Finals with Shanghai Sharks. Singapore Slingers played a good game of basketball and lost by a few points to China's Shanghai Sharks. Go Singapore! Singapore Slingers could try again next year! Check out the video!

Fancy cooking your meals with friends and eating together at Downtown Gallery's OUE Social Kitchen, it would be fun. The kitchen is on the third floor of Downtown Gallery, 6 Shenton Way (former DBS Building). The kitchen is 4000 sq feet and takes cooking in a big kitchen a whole new level. There are 10 cooking stations with all the condiments, utensils and the works. The price of renting the kitchen comes up to about having a nice meal in high class restaurant.. Rates start at $45 per hour for standard kitchen and $150 per hour for VIP room. Address: 6A Shenton Way Downtown Gallery #03-02/03 OUE Downtown Gallery Singapore 068815. Let's get cooking!!! Make sure you bring friends that can cook! Check out the video.

Mrupupup went to the Chara Expo 2017 at Suntec City. Wow so many people! All in Japanese anime cosplay costumes. Guess Singapore loves Japanese anime! Go Go Go! Check out the pictures and video......kawaiiii!

Mrupupup tried this Okinawa style pork belly ramen at Sun & Moon Japanese restaurant which was delicious. The pork belly was tender and melt in the mouth. The ramen noodles was cooked with ginger slices and came with half Japanese style egg. Ramen price about $14 and limited period only as the restaurant has a promotion based on Okinawa Japanese dishes. Sun and Moon Japanese Dining Restaurant - 501 Orchard Road, Wheelock Place #03-15/16/17. Long queue at this restaurant got to wait for your turn during peak hours. Check out the video.

The new pop-up store concept - Tokyo Eater by Shokutsu 10 serves up 3 different style of Tendon bowls at a really affordable price! Prices range from $12 to $15. The fried pieces served were really big pieces like vegetables and prawns. Really good! Got to Nex "Shokutsu 10" at Nex Mall! They introduced the concept of Chazuke style, whereby each rice bowl is served together with a bottle of freshly prepared daishi soup made with bonito from Japan to be mixed into the tendon for a light nourishing taste - a really refreshing experience. With no GST or service charge, good thing for the quantity and quality of food!  Go to Nex Mall Shokutsu 10 at #B1-78 at 23 Serangoon Central. Yummy!!! Check out the video Mrupupup made:

Mrupupup kind of late to introduce Soi 19 Thai Wanton Noodles. Think many people would have known of this wanton noodle store. Soi 19 awesome Thai wanton noodles was awesomely yummy. Every day this outlet got queue. The one Mrupupup tried was at Blk 151 Ang Mo Kio Avenue 5 and they got outlets in Jurong and a newer outlet at Upper Serangoon Shopping Centre. Mrupupup tried the noodles costing $5 with extra noodle and extra stuff/ingredients. Love this noodles why ? Springy noodles, lots of pig fat, good char siew, Taiwan sausages added to the noodles was the best part of the dish (always eat this last for Mrupupup!). One can order $4 and $6 versions. not sure why it is Thai style as Mrupupup never had Thai Wanton noodles in Bangkok during vacation and could not find any of such stores. Pretty yummy and good. Picture below of the $5 bowl.

Jamie's Italian Restaurant Singapore Vivocity outlet started by Jamie Oliver the famous British chef. Mrupupup tried out the seared tuna dish ($32) and Spaghetti Nero ($28) with mussels and black colour spaghetti noodles. The tuna was yummy and delicious, nicely done with nice avocado based sauce. The pasta was good with big prawns and mussels. One thing about Jamie's was the good and attentive service at the Vivocity outlet facing the Sentosa Island (address: 1 Harbourfront Walk #01-165 Vivocity mall). The not so good thing about Jamie's was the price of the dishes. Luckily, Mrupupup got use the Entertainer app to get one for one offer, so paid half price. Video

Mrupupup went to YWCA Singapore to have a dinner buffet. YWCA located at 6 Fort Canning Road (near to Fort Canning and YMCA Orchard) The dinner buffet was quite cheap about $20 per person. Had spread of local delights like curry fish, rice wine chicken, local snacks, drinks, desserts, fruits, prawns, oysters and Japanese sushi. Think if you want to save some money you can try YWCA cafe lodge for some value for money buffet. Check out the photos. Cheap and good buffet with family and friends on a weekend.

A stimulating spread of brewing workshops, home roasting demos, flavour profile discovery classes, café talks and coffee degustation sessions await java junkies at Singapore Coffee Festival (SCF) 2017. Singapore’s only coffee-centric festival will also play host this year to the electrifying Singapore Aeropress Championships 2017, organised by Common Man Coffee Roasters, as well as the largest-ever Barter Market, a unique cashless bazaar featuring more than 20 local makers and artists and presented by urban artist Sam Lo’s Indigoism outfit. The four-day festival, which debuted as a sell-out event last year, returns on  Thursday, 3 August to Sunday, 6 August 2017.  at spacious seaside venue Marina Bay Cruise Centre. Organised by The Straits Times (ST) and presented by DBS, the festival is also supported by several sponsors including Family & Tech Partner Singtel, Premium Coffee Sponsor Nespresso, Official Cruise Partner Princess Cruises, Wildlife-friendly Coffee Partne...

National Day Parade Singapore 2017 held in the beautiful Marina Bay area. This year got nice drones dancing in the evening sky to form pictures. All time favorite item of  NDP parade 2017 would be the nice fireworks lighting up the sky. Awesome! We love Singapore. Happy Birthday Singapore! Check out the videos! Dancing men in the sky using drones!