Yanhuo Restaurant 烟伙餐馆 | Modern Chinese Cuisine at Cross St is 5-15min walking distance from Chinatown MRT, Telok Ayer MRT and Lau Pa Sat - making it a perfect post work date night / hangout place during weekdays. I was excited to try this ever since it came up in my IG FYP a few months back.

Having grown up on Anime/Jdrama/Jpop, seeing Sakura in full bloom has always been on our bucket list. Timing it is tough if you don’t live in Japan (its has always been a few weeks earlier or later than forecast in past few years + the bloom lasts for a week already). In post COVID era, the weak ye

Buns has been an ELF (fans of Super Junior) since 2008 (yes pre Sorry Sorry era!) and recently went back to active fangirling for their 20th anniversary last year in 2025. One of the best parts about fangirling nowadays is the prevalence of idol-made vlogs chronicling their lives behind the sce

Hello Zesties! We are starting a new series #MichelinMusings to capture our rare splurges on Michelin meals - what we tasted and how we felt. We hope this helps in your decision to go/no go to a particular Michelin restaurant - especially as they are so pricy! First one on the list is our rec

Bronzo Pasta Bar at Bukit Timah Wet Market & Food Centre (Interim) is such a good happy find for us mid-Westies! We ate at a lot of pasta and pizza restaurants around the area across the years. iO Italian Osteria - HillV2 (Singapore) has consistently been number 1 on our hearts with no

Okinawa ranks very highly in our mission to visit all 47 prefectures in Japan. We did this itinerary when Buns was recovering from dengue fever and easily got fatigued - so we can vouch that this itinerary is good for babymoon also (in fact we have decided on Okinawa for babymoon destination whenev

We recently went on a slow leisurely road trip to NZ as a family of 5 adults. Sharing our itinerary and tips below and our video highlights here Trip date: Nov 28 to Dec 5, 2025 Temp range: 5-22deg celcius, avg 16-18deg celcius Sunset time: around 8-9pm! More time to explore! Left Christc

Went to Tokyo too many times but found yourself buying yet another ticket to Tokyo? If you drive, this itinerary will add variety and spice to your usual Tokyo trip! Pair this with 2-3 days in Tokyo at the end. This itinerary is most optimal if you arrive at Narita Airport. 🌎 Do also check out o

This is Day 2 in the Tokyo Road Trip series we took in Sep 2025. 🌎 Do also check out our: Day 1 itinerary here Full 7D6N road trip itinerary here 𝟎𝟖:𝟓𝟎 𝐂𝐡𝐮𝐳𝐞𝐧𝐣𝐢𝐤𝐨 𝐎𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 Lake Chūzenji Observation deck. We started with an early drive to see Lake Chuzenji. The pic you saw is the

Early September is usually a low peak season in the Japan tourist calendar - its the tail end of summer (so not too hot compared to July/Oct) but fall foliage hasn’t started (so things are not super pretty yet and people will wait a few more months for Nov). Coincidentally its the time Buns can act

“𝙊𝙪𝙧 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙥𝙥𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙝𝙖𝙪𝙡 𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙨 𝙙𝙞𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙩 - 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙡𝙨 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙖𝙣 𝙖𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙚’𝙨 😅” -𝙏𝙖𝙢𝙨 When we first joined Lemon8, there were a lot of Japan shopping haul posts in our FYP. Typically snacks/souvenirs or skincare, and mostly different from ours. Since we visited Japan so often after marriage, it seemed that

Hello Zesties! For our maiden post here, we wanted to share the completed itinerary for our recent Hokkaido trip. Summary of what we did in the post, and a mix of travel diary and recommendations for some locations here in the captions. Details of the meals we ate are now up here L