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Yes 933 DJ Hazelle Teo giving away 250 waffles to fans to celebrate first Star Awards win

Yes 933 DJ Hazelle Teo giving away 250 waffles to fans to celebrate first Star Awards win

Teo – who joined Mediacorp after emerging as a top 12 finalist in the 2016 DJ search, The Sound Makers – clinched her first-ever Top 10 Most Popular Female Artistes trophy at the annual ceremony earlier this month. This marks her first award after a decade in showbiz. “From the bottom of my heart, thank you,” she wrote. “In one of my livestreams, I promised 250 waffles to everyone who voted for me. Now that I‘ve made it to the stage, it’s waffle time,” she added. The event will take place on May 3 from 10am to 12pm at Cafe Melba at Mediapolis, which is located right outside the Mediacorp campus. “Please come for a serving of freshly-made waffles and hang out with me!” chirped the excited jock. “I‘d love to say hi to you, chat and just chill!” In her comments, Teo also quipped that her fiance, James Wong, 26, will be the one footing the bill. “I’m just doing the work, my generous fiance said he would pay. Everyone, feel free to come!” …

Review: Who cares if Max & Helen’s is really a classic diner when the waffle’s this good

Review: Who cares if Max & Helen’s is really a classic diner when the waffle’s this good

You have probably heard of Max & Helen’s, the homage to classic diners opened in Larchmont six months ago by Phil Rosenthal, creator of “Everybody Loves Raymond” and host of “Somebody Feed Phil,” and culinary juggernaut Nancy Silverton. If the algorithms pick up even your slightest interest in L.A. restaurants, you know the early waits for tables reached an absurdist eight hours, and probably that Silverton resequenced the DNA of the breakfast waffle into something more closely resembling yeasted pastry. An immutable law of L.A. dining: Crowds subside, at least during less popular time slots. Weekday lunch waits these days seem to average about 45 minutes. Double or occasionally triple that on weekends. I’ve also been twice recently when the only lag between me and a seat was the beat a server needed to grab menus and say, “Right this way.” Long waits (up to eight hours) for tables in the Max & Helen’s dining room have become more manageable since the restaurant first opened six months ago. (Ron De Angelis/For The Times) On a …