WTF

Battery Coffee in Vietnam: What the 2018 Scandal Revealed
October 24, 2019

Battery coffee is the alarming name attached to a Vietnamese food-fraud case uncovered in April 2018. Authorities found coffee waste and other material darkened with powder from used batteries; subsequent reporting traced the mixture to black-pepper adulteration. The case was […]

Read More
No Comment

SPECIAL INGREDIENTS

Why Is Singapore So Strict About Drugs? My Unofficial Theory
April 6, 2018

Why is Singapore so strict about drugs? There is a serious answer involving public safety, deterrence, and the harm caused by drug trafficking. Walking around the city, I came up with a less serious theory: Singapore already supplies enough strange […]

Read More
No Comment

TRAVEL

Haw Par Villa Review: Singapore’s Ten Courts of Hell
March 23, 2018

Editor’s Note: Updated October 22, 2026. This account and the photographs come from our earlier visit, before Hell’s Museum opened in 2021. The wider park is now partly closed for maintenance; museum access, prices, and closure dates were checked separately. […]

Read More
No Comment

TRAVEL