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,…
Sweet & Sour Pork on the Rocks from Kai Garden. While the glacial context keeps the coats of the McNugget-esque meat balls fairly chilled, the balls intriguingly maintain both coat crispness and a comforting level of bodily warmth. 3.7/5 This was a hosted meal, courtesy of Kai Garden. Kai Garden…
Roasted Pork Belly from Aloha Poké. The razor-crisp salty skin had a stickiness that would likely engage your teeth in a frenzied dance while elsewhere, each piece of the tender meat commits harakiri within your mouth and splits into more segments for your chewing pleasure, and the charred pineapple cubes…
Sea-ly eggs from Gastrosmiths – smoked salmon, pickled nori, chilli oil. Essentially soft slices of smoked salmon soaking lazily in kopitiam-esque soft boiled egg. Elsewhere, the chilli oil would cheekily engage you in a game of Where’s Wally. 3.7/5 Gastrosmiths 103 Beach Road Tan Quee Lan Street Singapore 189704
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…
Grilled Spanish octopus with Jerusalem artichoke, burnt onion and oyster leaf from Esquina. The octopus had a sensual and deeply roasty quality which extended to its very core, and its suction cups will disengage recklessly inside your mouth, offering more artillery for your crunching pleasure. Elsewhere, the burnt onion will…
Prawn Kadaif from 999.99 Five Nines – tiger prawn wrapped in thin deep fried noodles with red pepper sauce. The sauce was like a writhing baby girl from tomato and chilli parents, whilst elsewhere the noodles shattered loudly and dramatically in your mouth like a chandelier would if a XXL-sized…
A.L.T. from East 8 – avocado and lemon on yellowfin tuna chunks. You will gobble this chee cheong fun-esque delight like a famished cat – the thickly gooey, sweet and citrusy avocado pairs marvellously with the slickly marinated yellowfin tuna chunks, whilst elsewhere the sesame fragrance pops with more assertive…