Buys – ALT! Who Goes There!?

When you need retail therapy, check out the new store ALT at The Heeren in Orchard Road, Singapore. Expect three storeys and 23,000 promising square feet of shopping, from mainly fashion to beauty and lifestyle for the girls!

This is where you’ll get alternative brands like Broadcast, a leading fashion label from Shanghai that provides high-quality and contemporary ready-to-wear, BSC Panadda, Thailand’s top selling range of make-up and fashion apparel, Paris Hilton hand bags and accessories, local fashion label Skye by Ana Liew featuring party dresses and reversible tops, skirts and dresses, plus other international brands too like Steve Madden, Nine West and Ed Hardy by Christian Audiegier.

Check out the lingerie section on the second floor where underwear is organised not according to brands but by design and style types. On the 3rd and largest level, get cult brands and merchandise including novelty gifts, beauty and wellness, lifestyle gadgets and even men’s grooming products, confectionery, stationery and pets’ accessories.

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Binge - Must Eat! Massive Japanese Buffet at Kiseki!

If gargantuan quantities are called for, head to Kiseki, a Japanese buffet restaurant which recently opened at The Heeren. Guess you’ve gotta wade through a sea of angst-and-acne-filled teeny-boppers with their flip flops and facial perforations but there is a spread of 200 buffet items over 29 categories that await.

Apart from the usual suspects of sushi and teppanyaki, there’s a cold seafood counter with spiny lobsters, sweet clams and blue swimmer crabs; robatayaki with items like salmon head and saba, yakitori selections such as grilled salmon belly, okonomiyaki of octopus with shitake and salmon, nabemono, sukiyaki. Four action counters get food cooked up in front of you as you order, including western grills like ribeye steaks, barbecued beef, assorted mushrooms, and beyond, there's pasta like vongole and scallop spaghetti; and a full salad bar featuring rare offerings such as octopus salad and raw tuna salad, with loads of Japanese sauces and dressings. There’s lots more deliciousness going on which we just can’t list here – consider it a food-filled playground to mix and match your meal in unlimited quantities, and end off with over 20 desserts including yummies like Tofu Cheesecake, Goma Pudding, Crepe with filling. Drag the kids along ‘cos there’s a play area too. Weekday dinner and weekend spreads offer more options by the way. (Prices: from $19.80 to $32.80 for adults; $12.80 to $16.80 for kids depending on time and day of week)

The Heeren #B1-01


260 Orchard Road


Tel: 6736 1216
- by Ee Waun

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This Weekend - Land Sakes! Sweet Angels of Charity!

Look what landed on our laps! The Angel of Charity?

Maaan…we wish! (Stop peeping up the loin cloth, darling! We KNOW you did!)

No, it’s pictures of the Manhunt contestants who pottered about Orchard Road last week, bare-chested and selling dinky little Ben & Jerry's ice cream for charity in the sweltering h-h-h-h-hot afternoon sun. So sweeeeet!

The ice cream they offered went for $5 a pop, but we hear many enthusiastic customers forked out twice the amount for the pleasure of buying from these hunky-duhnks. The deed was done to raise funds for the Boys Town new dorms, to replace the current grounds that have been around for the past 62 years. While the cream isn’t going to dent much of the $15 million target required, at least it gave a little eye candy to passers by that day. If you, like us, missed the action on Orchard Road that day, have a sweet peek of these young’uns. (You know what I learnt from these pictures? Always dress properly, cos you never know who you might bump into! No more baggy bermudas and muffin tops, please!)

And if you’re in Orchard Road this Saturday (5 June) and it’s not too much of a detour for the trusty old orthopedic shoes, the Manhunt Finals will be held at The Heeren from 4-6 pm. Twenty of these pretty boys will be posing (ewwww!) their way to titles like Mystique Most Promising Male Model, Corona Beer Most Sexiest Hunk (grammar situation here!), Ripcurl Surfer Dude Award (honestly, how many of these chaps can even stand on a surfboard at sea????) and the grand title of Manhunt Singapore 2010.

Hey…just ‘cos we’re married with kids doesn’t mean we’re totally blind, ya know! As a friend had said, "You can peruse the menu, dear, just make sure you eat at home!"

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