What exactly is the font used in the 1Zpresso JX-Pro grind setting dial?

The number “5” looks particularly interesting, with its prominent angles and truncated top line. Unfortunately, it looks quite similar to “6” and regularly confuses me, especially when I’ve not yet consumed my morning dose of caffeine.

The number “7” appears almost boomerang-like and given that the numbers are probably machine-milled, I’d imagine that carving its shape out of the hunk of metal would have been especially efficient.

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Growing vegetables in plastic boxes by the window

Ever since The Wife started growing bean sprouts for home consumption, we’ve been toying with the idea of starting a mini vegetable farm in our apartment. It was timely that the National Parks (NParks) launched an island-wide Gardening with Edibles initiative last year that encouraged the general public to grow edible plants at home, and distributed free seed packets to interested families. We signed up, got our seeds and recently started planting them.

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Blind taste test of single-origin beans from Mt Whitney Coffee Roasters

Over the past few months, as I was experimenting with new equipment and different brewing variables, I’ve been asking her to score the coffee on a scale of 1 to 10. But now that the scores have been consistently 8 or more, it was time to run a new experiment on her — a blind taste test to see if she could differentiate coffee brewed from beans grown in different countries.

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Saying hello to my book at the Singapore National Library

I strolled down the long aisle until I reached Shelf 34 and proceeded to narrow down the search until I saw the tag [915.113 – 915.69] on the bottom-most shelf of the rack. Because my book was less than 100 pages, there wasn’t space to print anything on the spine, which made spotting it among all the other books slightly challenging.

After playing a very short game of Where’s Wally, I managed to find it and fish it out. (Note to self: Make sure that the next book I write has at least 100 pages. Anything less feels like a fancy booklet instead of a proper book.)

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Nanyang Chinese fusion cuisine done right at Famous Treasure

There’s an abundance of Chinese restaurants in Singapore, many of which specialise in specific regional cuisine such as Cantonese, Teochew, Hokkien, Sichuan, Hakka etc. But even though Famous Treasure is also a Chinese restaurant, they don’t quite fit the mold.

Yes, they have Cantonese roast meats on their menu and serve traditional Teochew orh nee dessert, but what makes them special are their well-executed Nanyang (南洋) dishes, many of which you’d typically find at neighbourhood tze char stalls.

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