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Independent Singapore
4 days ago
- General
- Independent Singapore
Locals list cheese, truffle, matcha, mentaiko anything as the most overhyped foods in Singapore
Photo: Freepik (for illustration purposes only). SINGAPORE: When a local Reddit user wanted to know what others feel are the most overhyped foods among Singaporeans, for both local and overseas cuisine, others on the platform were very willing to share their thoughts. U/GoldenRuler2021, who penned the post on r/askSingapore on Thursday (July 17), started the ball rolling by saying that cheese is 'way overhyped' in Singapore. 'People go crazy over cheese fries, cheese tarts, cheese pulls, everything cheese,' they wrote, adding that they've tried many cheeses, even 'atas' kinds such as brie and camembert, but found them to be only 'meh.' 'Sometimes sour, sometimes plasticky, and when it melts and stretches, it feels like it's pulling something inside me. No joy at all,' they added. Also, although they acknowledged that cheese has some health benefits, since it contains protein and calcium, it's just not something they would crave, like others seem to do. They also find tacos and burritos to be only 'okay, not bad,' even the ones they tried in Mexico. 'Honestly, I'd prefer prata or chapati. Just feels more satisfying and flavourful to me,' the post author wrote, asking others if there is a food that everyone else loves but they find simply overhyped. Some Reddit users said they don't get the hype behind the truffle craze. 'Anything 'truffle' is just an excuse to charge you extra for a few cents worth of truffle oil,' one opined, while another wrote, 'Most places don't use real truffles as they are too expensive to get. For most of the time, they use 'truffle oil' that has no truffle infusion. It's artificial flavouring.' 'Truffle anything and matcha most things have become oversaturated and really quite poor in quality,' agreed another. 'Overhyped would be churros during Covid or the raclette cheese pasta or cheese wheel pasta,' wrote a commenter. Another person who's tired of the cheese overhype wrote that 'cheese fries, cheese pulls, nacho cheese, are really just flavoured oils and fats.' 'Truffle anything and mentaiko, both don't taste really good to me, idk why, just very meh,' contributed another commenter. 'Mentaiko. There was one period when almost every food had mentaiko on it, bread, rice, noodles… although the flavours don't match,' another agreed. One brought up mala hot pot, which they characterised as 'cheap junk food in China but sold more expensive than zhi char here.' 'Mala. What's the point of food if the spices numb and burn away your sense of taste?' another asked. When one wrote they found McDonald's Chilli Crab Burger to be overhyped, others agreed, saying they found it overpriced. Others said that they found salted egg on 'everything' to be tiresome. One wrote that food cooked with salted egg yolk sauce or flavouring is 'underrated.' /TISG Read also: Filet-O-Fish burger with 'cheese 1/3 of 1 pc' sparks shrinkflation complaints among Singaporeans () => { const trigger = if ('IntersectionObserver' in window && trigger) { const observer = new IntersectionObserver((entries, observer) => { => { if ( { lazyLoader(); // You should define lazyLoader() elsewhere or inline here // Run once } }); }, { rootMargin: '800px', threshold: 0.1 }); } else { // Fallback setTimeout(lazyLoader, 3000); } });
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Fuzzy's Taco Shop to reopen in Texas, US
Fast-casual and restaurant brand Fuzzy's Taco Shop is set to reopen its Temple location in the US state of Texas on 21 July 2025. The reopening at 7425 West Adams Avenue will be marked by a giveaway, offering free tacos for a year to the first 50 customers in line. The refreshed restaurant features an expanded space and an outdoor patio. The restaurant will include the chain's newly introduced Happy Hour, offering food and drinks for $5 and under to dine-in customers from Monday to Friday from 2pm to 6pm. Prices for tacos begin at $2.50, chips and dip at $3, house margaritas are $4 and sangria swirls $5. A range of chilled draft beers is also on offer. Opening hours will be 10am to 10pm from Sunday to Wednesday, extending to 11pm from Thursday to Saturday. Temple Fuzzy's Taco Shop co-owner Dawson Lowry stated: 'This area has such a strong sense of community and constant activity, making it the perfect fit for Fuzzy's. 'We've always loved how this part of Temple brings people together, and we're excited to be part of that energy again. Whether you're swinging by for a quick lunch or settling in on the patio with friends, we want this to be the go-to spot for good food, good vibes and great company.' With its origins in Fort Worth, Texas in 2003, Fuzzy's has 115 restaurants across 15 states as of March 2025. Fuzzy's Taco Shop, franchised by affiliates of US-based Dine Brands Global, continues to expand its footprint, having opened its first location in California in April 2025. "Fuzzy's Taco Shop to reopen in Texas, US" was originally created and published by Verdict Food Service, a GlobalData owned brand. The information on this site has been included in good faith for general informational purposes only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely, and we give no representation, warranty or guarantee, whether express or implied as to its accuracy or completeness. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our site.
New York Times
10-07-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
And Just Like That … New York City Has Great Tacos
There's something I meant to tell you last week, but I chickened out: I'm a Californian by birth! I moved to the city after college, and though it's been several years, I've fallen for every Erewhon-coming-to-N.Y.C. prank, and still think of my hometown team when I turn down Doyers Street. But being a Californian occasionally comes in handy. For one thing, my taco radar is spot on. That's been especially useful this past year, when a host of taquerias seemed to suddenly appear, spawning ridiculously good Mexican restaurants all over the city. Finding respectable carnitas and barbacoa used to be a chore — now my friends debate which Brooklyn chefs make them best. It's enough to make a Californian cry tears of joy. Cramped New York kitchens give rise to all sorts of genius, spatially-aware cooking styles, like searing tortillas on an upside-down wok or baking bagels in a wood-fired pizza oven. At Wayne & Sons in the East Village, which is smaller than most studio apartments, the chef Oscar Hernandez warms his tortillas using a garden variety bagel toaster. Sit at the bar, which is also the kitchen — and watch them tumble over the conveyor belt. The house specialty is the hard shell beef taco. (The recipe, from Hernandez's family, has as much in common with Taco Bell as Una Pizza Napoletana does with Papa Johns.) His deeply seasoned picadillo needs little more than a zigzag of 'smoky sauce' — mayonnaise and chipotle adobo — but I can never resist the bear-shaped salsa bottles sitting on every table. For a night of Texas-size proportions, pair one with an order of queso-drenched armadillo cheese fries and an extra-strong margarita. (The menu wisely limits the cocktail to one per customer.) 221 Second Avenue, Suite A (East 14th Street), Manhattan Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
CBC
07-07-2025
- Politics
- CBC
An L.A. publication founded to cover tacos and weed is now a major source for ICE raid news
The publication that tells readers where to find the best tacos in Los Angeles is also the publication that tells them where the latest immigration raids are going down. L.A. Taco, a site once dedicated to lifestyle reporting, is now working full-time to cover the raids by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and the massive protests against U.S. President Donald Trump that have sprung up in response. "We still find the best tacos in L.A.," editor-in-chief Javier Cabral told As It Happens host Nil Kӧksla. "But now we've become the most consistent site covering the daily onslaught and terrorism of ICE raids in L.A." And it's paying off. Cabral says a surge of fundraising and new subscribers this summer has pulled the publication back from the brink of collapse. The day everything changed When L.A. Taco launched in 2006, it didn't have investigative news ambitions. "I like to say that it was like a baby Vice, meaning that our beats were primarily tacos, cannabis and graffiti," Cabral said. The publication began to rethink its editorial strategy in 2017, when the newspaper L.A. Weekly laid off nearly all of its staff, leaving a city and surrounding region of more than 10 million people "without any form of alternative independent news," Cabral said. By the time Cabral joined in 2019, L.A. Taco had already restructured as a "news first" publication. So when the first major ICE raid went down in the city's fashion district a month ago, its small staff leapt to action. "The first raid happened on a Friday afternoon. Imagine you're about to check out, you're going to pour yourself a nice cold beer or wine after a long week and then we hear of this very violent ICE raid," Cabral said. "It was like fight or flight, but editorial mode." Since then, Cabral says, they haven't stopped. The publication has an entire section of its website dedicated to ICE news. Social media producer Memo Torres produces daily video updates about "the ICE siege of L.A.," posted on Instagram, with no paywall. L.A. Taco has curated resources on Instagram, in both English and Spanish, including people's rights when being interrogated, and contact information for organizations that can help. "Now in this moment when L.A. needs as many eyes on the streets as possible, L.A. Taco has become indispensable," Los Angeles Times columnist Gustavo Arellano told the Washington Post, which recently profiled the publication's role in covering the raids. Cabral says they're motivated by a love for their city and the people who call it home. "So as long as ICE is going to keep on, you know, abducting people, L.A. Taco is going to keep on doing these stories." 'They are in the communities' And ICE shows no sign of stopping. The agency has rounded up 1,600 people in Southern California for deportation in the last month alone, according to the L.A. Times. Most of them, the paper notes, have no criminal records. Trump's massive tax and spending cuts bill, which passed in the U.S. Congress last week, includes a massive spending infusion to the tune of $170 billion US for immigration enforcement. Julie Patel Liss, head of journalism at California State University, says L.A. has a massive immigrant community, and journalists have really stepped up meet the moment, from mainstream news to student newspapers and independent outlets like L.A. Taco. But small, scrappy outlets offer a particular vantage point, she said, because their journalists don't have access to the same level of resources as those working comfortable, unionized jobs at legacy media outlets. "That makes them more empathetic," she said. "They are in the communities, and so they're hearing about, you know, different situations perhaps more often than somebody who's not living in that neighbourhood." L.A. Taco staff don't mince words when describing ICE. They call the raids "terrorism" and the arrests "abductions." Cabral says people shouldn't confuse that bluntness with editorialization. "We are an objective news platform, believe it or not," Cabral said. "All we do is just inform people of verified facts and information, and our readers can do whatever they want with that information." ICE did not respond to a request for comment from CBC. Growing subscriber base One year ago, L.A. Taco had furloughed most of its staff and was on the brink of shutting down. "I felt like I failed as an editor-in-chief," Cabral said. But now, he says, it's close to hitting 5,000 paid subscribers, which he says is the "sweet number" it needs to be sustainable at its current staffing levels of four full-time and two part-time employees. L.A. Taco has also been fundraising this summer, and L.A. actress Eva Longoria has agreed to match donations to the site up to $25,000 US. Liss says it makes sense that people are willing to fund this work. "People care about democracy, especially in a time like this when there are so many democratic conventions and standards that are being upended," she said. ICE is currently holding 59,000 people in facilities across the country, . Of those, nearly half have no criminal charges and fewer than 30 per cent have been convicted of crimes. The detained include dozens of Canadians. Last month, a Canadian died in an ICE facility in Florida. One Canadian, detained for several weeks in the spring, told CBC News she was kept in inhumane conditions. Cabral says it's a crisis mainstream media isn't prepared to handle. "If you're watching the local news, they go on to the sports report and the daily weather, and we're like, wait a minute, this is crazy unprecedented times, and our people are still suffering through this," he said. "We just can't move on like life is OK."
CNA
04-07-2025
- Entertainment
- CNA
Singapore Hour - Adventures Around The Lion City
47:03 Min Your guide to late-night eats, and explore Joo Chiat, a heritage town full of character. Meet a Mexican taco master and get exclusive access to one of Singapore's top attractions. Singapore Hour About the show: Welcome to Singapore Hour: your all-access pass to the city that never stops surprising. From iconic eats to cutting-edge tech, vibrant culture to hidden local gems – we bring you the best of Singapore through the eyes of those who know it best. Whether you're here to travel, work, or just soak up the vibe, Singapore Hour is your definitive guide to what's hot, what's next and what you absolutely can't miss.
