Chilli Banana with Triple Chocolate Ice Cream from the newly-opened 5 Senses in Bedok Point. It’s like having your tongue gently flogged with a chilli seed-studded, rawish gooey banana belt and then have your tongue lovingly caressed by a soothing chocolatey ice cream immediately after. 3.7/5 5 Senses 799 New…
Coconut from Cheek by Jowl – laksa leaf ice cream, pomelo, green chilli. Essentially what you get if bubur cha cha, laksa and vanilla had a head-spinningly scorching ménage à trois on a cushion of roasty nuts. 4/5 This was part of an existing $38 3-course lunch menu, and is…
Grilled Steak with Kimchi Fries from Paper Crane. The steak released smoky meaty juices with each sink of teeth, whilst elsewhere the wet cabbage chunks had the mild sourness of a periodic Clinique salesgirl (I do not approve of this imagery – Editor). I asked for the spicy coriander mayo…
Popcorn chicken with spicy coriander mayo and homemade chilli sauce from Paper Crane, situated within the SCWO near Bras Basah MRT. The wet chilli sauce sends lashings of powdery incendiaries onto the tongue, with the creamy coriander mayo being the chilli’s herbier, tangier sister. The dips are so naughtily revelatory,…
Crispy Roast Pork with Chilli Oil Dip from Sum Yi Tai. The salty skin grudgingly crackled thus fulfilling its titular obligation, but the meat itself had the tired toughness of a sixty-three year old roast meat stall auntie, and the Hong Kong cafe-esque chilli and mustard only serve as coarse…
Roast pepper and chilli frittatas from Birdcage Bistro. Essentially the spicy omelette equivalent of receiving full marks for the MCQ section of a Primary Four science paper. 3.8/5 Birdcage Bistro 312 Old Birdcage Walk #01-12 Singapore 798485
Swicy Hot Chick from Black Nut – sweet and spicy gochujang chilli wings. Essentially chicken wings coated in a sticky, carrot cake chilli-esque sauce that will cheekily (chickily?) find its way all over your mouth. 3.6/5 Black Nut 2 Emerald Hill Singapore 229287
Balukoo Wantons from Black Nut – buah keluak flesh, finely diced prawn, spring onion, ginger, garlic and homemade sambal chilli dip. The ever so slightly bitter, earthy and dry wantons craved for the black nuts which arrogantly stayed safely in their sac, but the shrimpy, spicy Nasi Lemak-esque chilli made…
Sweets from the Hi-Tea Buffet at House. Whilst the Orange Sweet Potatoes Tart was starchily suited and the coffee soil-topped Caramel Banana Cake Flowerpot was like Hermione Granger in salt class, the rich Curry Leaf Almond Brownie swished its savoury saree in glee and the yummy sweet gloop atop the…