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Travelling Soon? Try Over 70 Different Kinds Of Alcohol At Changi Airport From Now To 31 Oct

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A Craft Lover’s Dream

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A ‘SuperPark’ Is Opening In S’pore On 17 November With Over 20 Activities For Both Adults And Kids

From Pororo Park to Amazonia, kids in Singapore are truly blessed with some of the best indoor playgrounds in Singapore.

If you wish that adults had fun and exciting playgrounds as well, you’re in for a real treat.

Come November, you’ll have chance to be a kid again because SuperPark is coming to town.

Adults Just Wanna Have Fun

This coming 17 November, an indoor activity park brand ‘SuperPark’ is coming to Singapore.

Founded by Finnish businessman Taneli Sutinen in 2012, the first SuperPark opened in Finland in 2012. Singapore is the 2nd country in Asia to have its own SuperPark.

There’s a host of activities to look forward to at this new indoor super playground. Offering more than 20 activities in three themed zones for Singaporeans of all ages, there’s something for everyone.

SuperPark will be located at Suntec City Mall. And at 40,000 square ft – it’s roughly around three-quarters of a football field.

Day Passes for the park are tentatively priced between $22 and $48. Here’s what you can look forward to once SuperPark opens this coming November!

The Adventure Area

Unleash your inner child at the Adventure Arena as it has everything you can ever dream of.

Obstacle walls, trampolines, zip wires, slides, play towers, pedal car racing track, you name it, SuperPark has it.

The Game Arena

Need a place to show off your skills to your friends?

Here at SuperPark’s Game Arena, you can compete in everything from basketball to baseball. Don’t need to keep score as performance is measured by radar and other digital systems.

The Game Arena is a great place to practice your baseball swing and pitching, test the power of your slap shot and hone your accuracy on the basketball court.

The Freestyle Hall

Always wanted to try out parkour?

SuperPark’s Freestyle Hall includes a parkour course and gymnastics floor, as well as trampolines and foam pits. You don’t have to worry about hurting yourself as the Freestyle Hall provide a safe environment for putting your skills to the test.

You can also challenge yourself with the super climb, a tailor-made climbing concept, or partake in the ninja warrior obstacle course.

Best part is, you don’t need to be pro to try out any of these activities as  the experienced staff – many of whom are recognised coaches will man the park and help you out.

Don’t Forget The Food

You’re bound to get hungry after all that playing. SuperPark got you covered with their extensive buffets that includes burgers, hot dogs and fresh salads.

Famous for its family-centered approach to having fun – children, teenagers and even parents can all play, be active and have fun together.

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SuperPark Singapore
Opening Date: 17 November 2018
Address: Suntec City Mall

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Bubble Tea Buns Are A Thing Now – BreadTalk Launches Earl Grey Buns And Swiss Rolls With Pearls

Looks like bubble tea craze isn’t dying any time in Singapore.

BreadTalk just stepped up their game with their latest bubble tea buns and toasts which starts from $1.90.

Taking Bubble Tea To New Heights

If your go to order at your favourite bubble tea shop is Earl Grey Milk Tea, then you’ll love their new buns.

Celebrated in an unexpected form, the Earl Grey Bubble Tea Bun ($1.90) features an Earl Grey tea infused dough filled with Earl Grey tea infused cream and paired with pearls, making each bite an aromatic and chewy treat.

We were pleasantly surprised by how soft the pearls were as compared to the chewy texture we’re all used to.

If that isn’t good enough for you, they also come in toast ($2.90) and roll ($8.50) forms!

The Early Grey Bubble Tea Roll ($8.50) features an airy, light and fluffy Swiss roll wrapped around an Earl Grey Tea infused cream filling with chewy pearls. This roll makes for the perfect afternoon snack or post dinner treat.

However, bubble tea-based food aren’t the only Taiwanese items that BreadTalk’s introducing.

Inspired by the delicious mash-up of street snacks and familiar local delicacies, BreadTalk has also created a range of baked treats that will take you on a journey through Taiwan food markets.

Relive the nights of walking through Raohe Night Market with their range of Taiwanese street food buns. The Pepper Bun ($1.90) is filled spiced minced pork and flavourful spring onion, seasoned with a good dose of white pepper and topped with white sesame.

Just like the ones they make in Taiwan, the buns are crisp on the outside and juicy on the inside.

For those craving a sweet treat, the Sweet Potato Red Bean ($2.00) is a delightful bun filled with red beans from Wandan in Taiwan, known for its rich flavours, sweet potato, boluo crumble and sprinkled with Matcha Powder.

You can find these items at all BreadTalk outlets, except for:

Earl Grey Bubble Tea Toast and Chocolate Malt Bubble Tea Toast: only available at the IHQ, Chinatown Point, CityLink Mall, ION Orchard, Novena Square and Toa Payoh HDB Hub outlets.

Earl Grey Bubble Tea Roll: available at all outlets except Singapore Cruise Centre and United Square.

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I Attended A Self Defence Class – Now I Can Take Down Someone Twice My Size

Growing up in Singapore all my life, I can safely say that we take our safety for granted.

Our country’s low crime rates gives us a sense of security and enough confidence to walk down dark alleys in the middle of the night without fear.

But as we are often reminded, low crime doesn’t mean no crime. The fact is that even in a country with low crime rates like Singapore, one still reads about the periodic sexual assaults that happen here.

With that, I grabbed a couple of my female colleagues to attend a self defence class at Kapap Academy.

She has since tweaked the original version to better suit real-life situations. Called Modern Street Combatives, the academy’s self-defence system teaches people to be street smart as well as studying predatory psychology to detect and avoid dangers.

Her sessions are typically 2 hours long and is split into an hour of theory lesson and another hour of practical where students can perform the moves that were taught in the theory.

Upon arrival at her class, we sat in a circle around the mat and immediately dived right in to her theory lesson.

Now before you yawn at the idea of an hour of theory lesson, Yunquan keeps it fun and engaging by having her students demonstrate some of the moves with her.

Standing at just 1.62m tall, we were all impressed by Yunquan’s abilities to pin down a male student with minimal effort.

At Kapap Academy, they believe that instead of using physical strategies to defend oneself to survive an assault, victims of such aggression need to learn appropriate strategies and tactics to de-escalate, evade or control and restraint their assailant until help comes.

Using knowledge drawn from both psychology and body guarding training, participants will learn how to  identify signs of an imminent attack, and position oneself to create opportunities to escape.

Instead of relying on strength based techniques that are often taught in combative sports (E.g Muay Thai, Taekwondo, Mixed Martial Arts etc), participants learn how to use principles of bio-mechanics and leverage to protect themselves.

This lesson was particularly useful for everyone as we learned tactics on how to protect ourselves when we’re faced with a case of molestation and getting out of these difficult situations.

Once theory was over, we paired up and started on the practical.

As we were attending a Level 1 class, we mostly covered basics such as breaking out from various forearm grabs and holds.

From learning how to get out of a hair pull to learning how to escape if you’re being cornered, Yunquan taught us practical moves to use to get yourself out of the situation.

Even if you’re petite or not physically fit, the moves taught during this class really showed us that as long as you learn the pressure points and critical points of the human body, you’ll definitely be able to get yourself out of any dangerous situations.

Other classes also covers combative skills that are used by soldiers or the para-military police to engage an opponent. This includes stand up engagement to ground, knife defence and use of improvised weapons like car keys, umbrellas, water bottles, handphones, bags, etc

After a whole hour of flipping and hurting my colleagues, we huddled in front of Yunquan’s laptop to watch videos of real life assaults and harassment. We sat and discussed ways to tackle the assault if we were ever faced with a similar situation.

Holding classes for people of all ages and physical capabilities, Kapap Academy aims to provide ordinary people with the tools/skill sets to stay safe against worst case scenarios in the streets.

So whether you’re preparing yourself for an overseas posting, overseas studies or you plan on travelling to unsafe cities, it’s important to keep safe while enjoying your new experiences abroad.

Who knows, the next time the unexpected happens, you might just be able to protect yourself or your loved ones against the attackers.

Kapap Academy 
Location: 144 Robinson Road, #05-01, Singapore 068908 | 82 Lorong 23 Geylang Road #02-02, ATRIX
Price: $25/hr (Adults) and $20/hr (Students and NSmen)
Training hours: Check full schedule here

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Get A Dose Of WWE With S’pore Wrestling Dojo Grapple MAX’s First Ring Show On 21 Sep

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Put A Ring On It

Considering how visual pro wrestling is, it’s probably better to show than tell you how a local match looks like:

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5 Must-Try Hawker Favourites At Old Airport Road, One Of S’pore’s Largest Food Centres

When talking about eating spots in Singapore, Old Airport Road Food Centre is bound to come up sooner or later.

Since 1973, the ex-Kallang Airport has been home to a wide variety of good eats, and foodies still flock to the now-legendary eating spot to this day to get their munch on.

With more than 150 stalls we’re probably definitely going to have to come back for a second round, but until then here are five dishes that you can count on for a good meal:

Nam Sing Hokkien Mee

Let’s get the usual suspects out of the way first — Nam Sing Hokkien Mee might very well be Old Airport Road’s most well-known stall, and the seemingly endless queue at any given time suggests that this isn’t going to change anytime soon.

Similar to the one we had at Newton Circus, this iteration uses thinner noodles, and isn’t as wet as the ones you’d find in your average hawker centre. Each plate comes with a generous serving of seafood and eggs, and it’s well-rounded taste definitely lives up to the hype.

If you’re going to order food from multiple stalls (as most people do at Old Airport Road), make sure to make Nam Sing your first stop — the store is notorious for its 30-45 minute waiting times, so plan accordingly.

Nam Sing Hokkien Fried Mee
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Bedok Minced Mixed Noodle

If you’re a fan of Bedok 85’s minced meat noodles, you owe it to yourself to try Old Airport Road’s Bedok Minced Mixed Noodle (no prizes for guessing where they got their inspiration from).

Prepared by two of the nicest ladies you’ll ever meet in a hawker center, the dish looks deceivingly simple — minced meat, dumplings, and greens are pretty much the only ingredients here, but everything comes together to create an extremely flavourful bite (some might argue that it’s a little too salty, so people who prefer something less intense should take that into account).

Price-wise, a small and large bowl goes for an affordable $3 and $4 respectively. While the serving size of the former was enough to fill our stomachs, the dish is so tasty that we wished we had gone for the bigger option.

Bedok Minced Mixed Noodle
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Freshly Made Chee Cheong Fun

Chee cheong fun has always been a pretty unassuming dish, but the ones by Freshly Made Chee Cheong Fun might become the unexpected star of your meal for a number of reasons.

Like its name suggests, each order is made fresh (always a plus, but be ready to queue), and the amount of fillings to choose from is nothing short of staggering. There’s the usual prawn and char siew, but more peculiar choices like egg, otah, scallop and even pig liver are available as well.

Of course, all the choices in the world wouldn’t matter if the dish didn’t taste good, and thankfully it delivers on that front as well. The rice flour skin possesses an extremely silky texture that melts in your mouth, and the accompanying sauce adds a light, savoury taste that doesn’t go overboard.

And as if that wasn’t enough, there’s still the prawn chilli paste, which adds another dimension of sweetness to an already flavourful dish.

Freshly Made Chee Cheong Fun
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Toa Payoh Rojak

Full disclosure: we aren’t exactly the biggest fans of rojak, but the one we had from Toa Payoh Rojak might have turned us into converts.

While most rojaks are a little too heavy for our tastes and can get jelak after awhile, this one manages to strike the perfect balance of sweet and spicy. Despite being lathered in sauce, pretty much every piece remained crispy, and we couldn’t put our satay sticks down.

We received a very generous serving for $3, and you can bump that size up to $5 if you’re eating in a bigger group. As you might expect, the stall is popular among regulars (it has a clinic-esque numbering system, for crying out loud), so make sure to get in the queue early.

Toa Payoh Rojak
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Dong Ji Fried Kway Teow

The queue at Dong Ji Fried Kway Teow might not be as lengthy as some of the other stalls in this list, but you can count on waiting just as long to get your food.

This isn’t without good reason, though — instead of cooking an entire batch wholesale, the chef prepares each order individually, and that attention to detail definitely makes a difference.

The result is a personalised wok hei of sorts, coupled with an ever-so-slight seafood taste thanks to the addition of prawn, squid and cockles. The overall flavour still leans towards the lighter side, but that’s actually a good thing considering that it allows you to eat other dishes without feeling too bloated.

At just $3-$4 per plate, Dong Ji is definitely worth giving a shot. Just pray that the person in front of you doesn’t order ten packets.

Dong Ji Fried Kway Teow
Unit: #01-138

Old Airport Road Food Centre
Address: 51 Old Airport Rd, Singapore 390051

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Holey Moley! This New Mini Golf Bar At Clarke Quay Serves 1.3kg Burgers And Metre-Long Pizzas

Posting on social media, online shopping and calling your ex — there are some things that you should never do when you’re drunk.

On the flip side, however, certain activities are infinitely more fun with a little alcohol in your system, and mini golf is one of them.

In fact, mini golf could very well be the perfect drinking activity, because (1) it can work with any number of people (2) doesn’t require much physical effort, and (3) usually takes place in a safe, enclosed space under the supervision of people with saner minds.

At this point you might be thinking “sounds good, Internet guy, but there’s no place in Singapore where you can do this”.

Well, that’s about to change this December.

A New Kind Of Drinking Hole

That’s right: Holey Moley — a half mini golf, half bar concept from Australia — is making its way to Singapore at the end of the year.

Not much has been revealed at this point, but what we do know is that it’ll be fittingly located in Clarke Quay (the former site of Shanghai Dolly, for those of you who know where that is), and will feature a whopping 27 holes split across two floors.

In true mini gold fashion, these won’t look like boring driving ranges either — each hole will feature a pop culture theme ranging from Game of Thrones to Monopoly, and there’ll even be a hawker centre one for that touch of local flavour.

Throw a little neon lighting into the mix, and you just might have your new favourite Instagram spot.

If you get the munchies halfway through your tee time, Holey Moley’s got you covered there as well.

Their food menu features decadent selections like American burgers with neon-coloured buns, A 1.3kg monster burger, and “pizza served by the metre”, which — if it is what we think it is — could be the best thing ever.

Holey Moley will open its doors on the 6th of December, and if for some reason you have to be first in line, you can reserve a spot at their website right now.

Sounds a lot more fun than squeezing in a club and paying for overpriced drinks, that’s for sure.

Holey Moley Golf Club
Address: 3B River Valley Road, #01-01 Clarke Quay, Singapore 179021
Opening: 6th December

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Meatballs, Wine and Comfort Food – This Restaurant At Telok Ayer Will Put You In A Mellow Mood

When it comes to meatballs in Singapore, IKEA is usually the first place that comes to mind — thanks to an affordable price point and a hint of nostalgia (who hasn’t bought a chair and ate at their restaurant out of convenience at least once in their lives?), the Swedish furniture company has become synonymous with the dish.

Popularity doesn’t necessarily equate to quality, however, and while IKEA’s rendition is decent enough, it certainly isn’t the best. It’s very much a “you get what you pay for” situation, and if you want some proper meatballs you’re going to have to look elsewhere.

And that’s where Club Meatballs comes in.

A Well-Rounded Dining Experience

Located in the heart of Telok Ayer, Club Meatballs strives to be a one stop shop for the CBD crowd, operating as not just a restaurant, but a café, bar, wine-cellar and co-working space as well.

For the past three years, the menu has consisted of tapas and Spanish-inspired meatball dishes, and it’s recently been revamped in an attempt to keep things fresh. With New York-based “millennial chef” La Mei Mei now at the helm, the cuisine has transformed into something described as “international comfort food with a meatball twist”.

“Comfort food” is a pretty apt description, because everything on the menu looks like something you’d want to eat on a bad day to cheer yourself up. The Mac N Cheese Balls ($12) are a good place to start, with its crispy exterior providing a satisfying crunch to reveal the cheesy macaroni within.

If you’re looking for something a little lighter, the Quinoa Salad ($15) is a solid choice as well, with its refreshing chunks of pomegranate and roasted pumpkin whetting your appetite before you move on to the main course.

And this is where your options really open up. Meatball lovers should head straight for The Baller Platter ($25-$35), which puts your choice of meatball — beef, pork, chicken, lamb, fish…they’ve got it all — and sauce on a bed of mashed potato. No matter which you choose, you can rest assured that they live up to the Club Meatball moniker, offering a big, juicy taste in a small package.

Need some carbs in your meal? You could also go for the CMB Spaghetti and Meatballs ($15), a classic dish which somehow manages to provide the comfort of a home-cooked meal.

If meatballs aren’t really your thing, the menu also includes less-heavy-but-equally-hearty alternatives like Shepherd’s Pie ($18) and Club Meatball Pizza ($22), and even a Tofu Steak ($20) for the vegetarians out there.

A personal favourite of ours is the Beer Braised Beef Short Rib ($28) which has been slow cooked to nothing short of perfection. The dark beer-infused meat is so tender that it pulls apart at the slightest touch, and the pairing with some creamy mashed potato make for an effortless bite that’s full of flavour. If you’re going to eat one dish here, this is the one.

On the drinks side of things, the bar provides the standard fare of beer, cocktails and spirits (prices can be found here), but remember that wine-cellar we mentioned earlier? The title might conjure images of things you couldn’t possibly afford, but bottles start from a surprisingly affordable $29, and go up to $259 for those who want something a little fancier.

Despite its meatball-centric name, Club Meatballs’ new menu proves that it can do a whole lot more than just that, offering a wide selection of comfort food while doubling up as a cozy place to hang out and get your Instagram on as well.

If you find yourself in the Telok Ayer area looking for something new to eat, this is definitely one place to check out.

Club Meatballs
Address: 22 Cross Street, #01-35 China Court Central, Singapore 048422
Opening Hours: 8am – 12pm (Mondays to Fridays), 10am – 10pm (weekends)

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Calling All Roald Dahl Fans: Matilda The Musical Is Coming To Singapore In Feb 2019

If you remember begging your parents to buy you the entire Roald Dahl series when you were younger, then you’re in for a real treat.

Matilda The Musical – a stage adaptation of the novel Matilda is coming to Singapore. Not to mention, for the first time ever in Asia.

Matilda Comes To Singapore

If you’ve never read the book or watched the movie, here’s a breakdown of the plot.

The musical follows Matilda, a precocious 5-year-old girl who loves reading and learning but is suppressed by her TV-obsessed parents who pay her little attention and bullied by her formidable school headmistress Miss Trunchbull for being too smart.

As she grows up, she begins to resist the challenges and obstacles presented to her, learning that sometimes you have to be a “little bit naughty” in order to get through life – a tale that’ll resonate with audiences young and old alike.

Be prepared to delight in the witty musical numbers featuring beloved hits such as ‘Naughty’ and ‘When I Grow Up’, it’s no surprise that the musical has bagged a trunkful of awards, including five Tony Awards and seven Olivier Awards.

Accompanying the music is a collection of vivid stage sets that are decked out in a kaleidoscope of colours – a captivating treat for the eyes.

Featuring a lovable child cast and a riotous adult one, Matilda the Musical promises an unforgettable story of childhood, love and hope presented in stunning theatrical form that is sure to leave a lasting impression on audience members of all ages.

Don’t miss your chance to catch it when it debuts at the Sands Theatre in Singapore, 21 February 2019.

Tickets are now on sale at marinabaysands.com and all SISTIC channels.

Matilda The Musical
Venue: Sands Theatre @ Marina Bay Sands
Dates: 21 February 2019 – 3 March 2019
Showtimes: Tue – Fri: 7.30pm | Sat: 2pm & 7.30pm | Sun: 1pm & 6pm
Prices: Tue – Thur: $68 – $178 | Fri – Sun: $68 – $198 (excluding $4 ticketing fee)

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This Flea Market Is Painting S’pore CMYK From 20-23 Sep, With Over 500 International Stalls

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More Stalls Than Ever

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