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Tucked away behind the busy Orchard Road is the lesser known sister of the Pan Pacific Hotel chains, the Pan Pacific Orchard. Now that I have tasted the great food at the signature restaurant, 10 at Claymore, I think the lesser known sister should have a chance to revel in the limelight.

After a little poking around the internet, it seems like 10 at Claymore has been quite popular for it’s buffet spread and so I was quite curious when I was invited down by Citibank and the 10 at Claymore folks to try out food from the à la carte menu. I was also joined by 7 other bloggers: Chester, Veron, Keropokman, James, Walter, Jeneen and Claudia.

Seeing that the restaurant expected us down, I won’t talk about the excellent service that the staff showed as there but without any biased opinions, the food served to us was great! Pardon me for not packing vocabulary like a food connoisseur does but you have to believe me when I say the food is great, considering that I hardly get excited over food much.

I forgot whose idea it was to share food around like Thanksgiving instead of ordering mains for each of ourselves but I think everyone enjoyed eating chunks and morsels of food from the variety that 10 at Claymore served us that night.

If you every make your way down, do try the Thai Beef Salad from the appetiser section and for mains, do try the delicious Oven-Roasted Bonito Cod.

Now, if you have a fat wallet and/or has a thing for beef, I implore you to spend it on the Blackmore Wagyu Beef Tenderloin. It is 200g of Wagyu Beef goodness that stirs my gastric juices as I am typing out this blog post. Even Veron who isn’t much of a beef person, enjoyed the tenderloin of Marbling score 9+.

“What MARBLING SCORE?!?” you might ask? Well, I was clueless also and apparently, a benchmark marbling/marble score of 1 to 9+ is given to Wagyu beef which grades it on the amount of intramuscular fat that gives the famous Wagyu it’s famous juicy texture. Need I mention that the best grade is on the high side?

Yes. It costs $100 and I swear that I didn’t knew of the price until someone pointed it out to me on the menu. Truthfully, it’s not something that I would order if I had to pay because of the hefty price tag but it’s worth every cent! The meat was juicy and the generous portion is good enough for most folks. I had it medium-rare so as to fully savour the goodness of the meat but I think it’s also extremely delicious served medium. Anything more cooked than that and I’ll go over and kill you myself…. and eat the remainder of the Wagyu beef you ordered….

10 at Claymore has a few promotions if you are a Citibank card holder:

• Valid 1st Aug 2010 – 30th Sep 2010
  • Get 1 complimentary THE CLAYMORE (which is a steak) with any order from the grill menu.

  • Get a 2nd grilled item from the grill menu for $10 only, with any order from the grill menu.
• Valid till 31st Dec 2010
  • 15% off total bill

Pan Pacific Orchard
10 Claymore Road
Singapore 229540

[Disclaimer: Citibank is a client of my company and the food was kindly sponsored by the restaurant. My opinions of the food are of my own and are not influenced in any way or by anybody.]

Remember the Dove Go Fresh Challenge that I spoke of?

Help us vote for our entry and you may get a chance to bring someone down to the Dove sponsored private island getaway with us if we win!

Voting closes at the end of tomorrow (Friday) and so I need everyone to head down to the facebook page here and click on ‘Like’ to vote for us! VOTE VOTE VOTE! Thanks!

I know I am supposed to cough up a video for this challenge but at the very end of my work for it, my data for the flash file got corrupted. Any more unlucky and I’ll have 10,000 doves fly past and drown me in their poo.

Anyway, do support me and vote Vote VOTE!!!

Dove is sponsoring a private island getaway for 10 worth $10,000 and all you have to do is to get creative and submit a video or a picture of how you would freshen up the humble shower to the official Facebook page here.

Winners are selected based on the no. of public likes for your submission and judges choice for quality. Contest ends on the 23rd of October 2009.

No ideas? Too little time to submit something creative? Don’t have 9 friends that you can bring along for the trip?

That’s where I come in!

A group of friends and I are taking part in the Dove Go Fresh Splash Challenge and we are giving up TWO slots for one winner to bring his/her friend along to the trip with us! (As if we will be winning it surely. )

Watch this space (and any other space I am on….) for details when we post the video entry of us up on the Dove Go Fresh Challenge Facebook page. What I need you to do is to vote, Vote, VOTE!!!!

And if we don’t win? We’ll still give out a mystery prize to one lucky supporter as a token of appreciation for your support!

Stay tuned!

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Singtel INQ Mini 3G was launched at Civic Plaza and bloggers & celebrities were invited to attend the very nicely set up containers in front of Ngee Ann City.

Twitter, being a integral selling point of the INQ Mini 3G, coupled with the enthusiasm of the bloggers in the same room as Dawn, made her pretty interested in figuring out what Twitter is.

Unlike the America where most celebrities have more or less embraced social media, especially Twitter; only a handful of local celebrities have actually done the same. Thanks to and the bloggers, and have at least signed up for Twitter and we await with baited breath if they will actually use their accounts regularly. Go add em and urge them on!