Dry Laksa from NOW Noodles + at Square 2, Novena. Now Noodles + 10 Sinaran Drive #02-65 Square 2 Singapore 307506
Mee Tai Tak with Century Egg from the newly-opened Now Noodles+, situated within Square 2 in Novena. Provides an oral experience akin to Char Kway Teow in a provocative dirty tango with Hong Kong XO Carrot Cake. 3.7/5 ⠀ This was a hosted meal, courtesy of NOW Noodles +. Now…
Crispy Charcoal Nest from Janice Wong Singapore – pork belly, collagen broth, mushroom poem paper. (The collagen broth is poured into the bowl at your table- there is no Invisibility Cloak magic here.) Janice Wong Singapore 93 Stamford Road #01-06 National Museum Singapore Singapore 178897
Scallop Somen (fish roe, ebi, scallop and salted egg yolk sauce) from Janice Wong Singapore. Essentially a comforting and indulgent stir-fry noodle experience, with each slinky and urgently wet strand being positively coated in thick, greasy flavour and various companions like the fish roe, ebi and salted egg yolk sauce…
Kau Pau Kolo Mee from the newly-opened Broth House opening next to The Hangar along Arab Street – kolo mee with minced thai pork and basil served with poached egg, fried shallots and fried ikan bilis. The kolo mee sprung and bobbed energetically, whilst elsewhere the liberally peppery minced pork…
Roasted cod and soba noodle salad from Populus – roasted cod loin, soba noodles, marinated mushrooms, lightly pickled vegetables, broad beans, lime and sesame dressing. Whilst the saltily-skinned cod may have gone a tad overboard in its vain efforts to achieve a Kim Kardashian-esque bronze, the soba noodles were intriguingly…
Truffle soba from Two Bakers. The soba was made appealingly salty and fragrant by the sauce and seasoning with the truffle being as light as a mynah’s roadside abandoned feather with its touch, never being too heavy-handed with its usually militant agenda. Elsewhere, the succulent portobello mushroom squirted its juices…
Salmon soba noodles from Atlas Coffeehouse – glazed salmon, soba noodles, marinated shimeji, fried egg. Whilst the sour, vinegary noodles played it nice and cool, the salty glazed salmon possessed a Hermione Granger class participation-esque enthusiasm to gain favour with flavour. 3.6/5 Atlas Coffeehouse 6 Duke’s Road Singapore 268886
Fisherman’s Mee Sua from Gastrosmiths – seafood medley, homemade scampi bisque, signature-style mee sua. Essentially the mee siam-esque gustatory equivalent of a breathtakingly beautiful and Dior-perfumed blogger who does pilates, eats walnuts and edamame as midday snacks and replies to everything with vapid three word utterances. Notwithstanding, the scallops had…