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Sadly, the answer is No but Jolly V is.

When I was in Hong Kong a few weeks ago, one of the best meals I had was eating Jollibee again after leaving the Philippines 7 years ago. Don’t get me wrong - I also enjoyed eating local Hong Kong food very much but Jollibee just brought back childhood memories. According to Inquirer.net, the Philippines is the only country where McDonald’s isn’t in first place with regards to market share. Jollibee slowly but surely overtook The Golden Arches in the local market.

When I found out that there’s a spoof of Jollibee here in Singapore called Jolly V, my friend and I knew that we had to give it a shot. It’s located at Lau Pa Sat near Raffles Place MRT. Another Filipino from Singapore tried Jolly V last year and gave their verdict here. I have to agree with them - Jolly V is 90% close to the taste of the original Jollibee except for the gravy of the chicken but it was still good. I ordered the spaghetti with the chicken and it was a good lunch to start my week.

It ain’t Jollibee but it’s more than good enough. I’m definitely going back.

Donut shops keep popping up in every corner of Singapore recently. A new franchise in Raffles City is about to open in a week’s time, and they spent today giving away free donuts for people to try. Unfortunately, it isn’t as good as I hoped. I was able to try two flavors earlier, and there is just something wrong with the dough.

So far, none of the donut shops in Singapore has come close to Krispy Kremes. They try so many gimmicks here: making people queue for half and hour, giving donuts for free, etc. Gimmicks aren’t enough these days. At least with Krispy Kreme in the Philippines giving a year’s supply of donuts for free to their first customer during opening day (a more free donuts to the first 500), it generates positive buzz because people line up for hours and they know they’ll be getting mouthwatering donuts.

The new donut place in Raffles City is another example of something that looks good on the outside (the restaurant layout and ambiance is similar to Starbucks), but the quality of their donuts isn’t up to par.

I hope their coffee will be better.

I was searching the net for restaurant reviews and recommendations in Singapore and I came across two different yet informative food blogs.

1. i eat, i shoot, i post

i eat, i shoot, i post has been up for a long time just by looking at its long list of food categories. I went to explore around and found the blog’s visitor statistics and it just reaffirmed what I initially thought. This food blog gets an average of 3000 unique visitors and about 1,800 loyal readers a day. To be honest, I wanted to close the Firefox tab on this blog right away because I was turned off by the design and layout. As I scrolled down, I learned that this blog has some really good content in it (both food photography and reviews). It even has its own community of ieaters. Thanks God I gave this blog a second look because I have now added it to my RSS reader and will be recommending it to friends.

2. flavor

flavor is definitely in touch with web 2.0: the website design and a Facebook group. Impressive. By the looks of it, they haven’t officially opened their blog/site to the public yet. However I was able to access one of their pages through Google. It looks really neat inside. I think they are at that stage where they’re filling up their blog with enough reviews before their launch. Content-wise, flavor distinguishes itself by focusing on higher-end restaurants. There’s not much activity at present but I wish that when they go live, their content would live up to their presentation.

I shouldn’t just a blog by its first page.