{"id":28,"date":"2008-03-30T21:22:23","date_gmt":"2008-03-30T13:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=28"},"modified":"2008-03-30T21:22:23","modified_gmt":"2008-03-30T13:22:23","slug":"pots-and-plates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2008\/03\/30\/pots-and-plates\/","title":{"rendered":"Pots and Plates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ling had been eying <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldkitchenasia.com\/ap\/brand_corelle.aspx\">Corelle<\/a> dinner ware at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.streetdirectory.com\/asia_travel\/travel\/travel.php?travel_id=1909&amp;travel_site=90496\" target=\"_blank\">Compass Point<\/a> Metro outlet for quite a long while now. But we (or maybe me) have put off buying those things because we don\u2019t need much dinner ware when we normally cook just for two persons at home, and we\u2019ve been making do with handme downs and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ikea.com.sg\" target=\"_blank\">Ikea<\/a> fare.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image517\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/blog-corelle-herbs_b.gif\" alt=\"blog-corelle-herbs_b.gif\" align=\"right\" \/>So, it came as quite a surprise for Ling when I had a change of heart quite out of the blue over the weekend, and suggested maybe we should just get one of those sets after all. The set that Ling wanted though was no longer in supply at the Metro outlet, so she had to hunt around a bit at other department stores around Singapore. We finally found one remaining box set, and on Wednesday morning I headed to OG at Orchard Point to pick up a 22 item European Herbs Corelle dinner ware set at $169.<\/p>\n<p>That said, it\u2019s going to take a while to get used to Corelle ware though, as they\u2019re a lot thinner and lighter than the porcelain ware we\u2019re used to. Heck, they\u2019re so light there isn\u2019t much heft or weight to them and whenever I handle these plates, I\u2019m deathly worried about dropping them.:(<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ling had been eying Corelle dinner ware at the Compass Point Metro outlet for quite a long while now. But we (or maybe me) have put off buying those things because we don\u2019t need much dinner ware when we normally<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2008\/03\/30\/pots-and-plates\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Pots and Plates<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-home","category-dining","wpcat-6-id","wpcat-9-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}