SURFING THE MENU

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Get a taste of local restaurants with just a click of the mouse

http://blurbme.com/home/index.php
Search for Greenwood Fish Market and Bistro on Blurbme.com, for example,
and you'll get a description of the place, its opening hours, the budget
required for a meal there and several reviews and ratings contributed by
users.

http://yum.sg/
"Food websites are good for checking out places you've heard a lot about
but haven't tried," said public relations consultant Serene Ng, 25, who
visited Yum.sg recently to read about a French eatery at Serangoon Road.

http://makantime.com/
The oldest Singapore food website is probably Makantime.com, a food guide
and website dedicated to local cuisine set up in 1995.

http://www.hungrygowhere.com/
Hungrygowhere was founded by three friends who wanted to "give people a
voice and bring together everyone's views on food".

http://foodlane.sg/pages/public/homepage.aspx


Indeed, these sites can also be useful resources for print publications.

The editor of dining magazine Appetite, Joyceline Tully, said she uses
them as a research tool and to see what different groups of people think
of a restaurant. But she added: "At Appetite, we have to do our own
research where restaurant reviews are concerned."