Golden Toast with Thai tea kaya, kaya and condensed milk with Milo dips from Tuk Tuk Cha. The air-fried golden toast has the delectably crumbling crispiness of a century-embalmed Egyptian mummy. Elsewhere, the dips ranged from rather vapid (Thai milk tea) to safe (kaya) to gao epic addictiveness with steep…
Green Curry Gelato with Sticky Rice from Gin Khao. Essentially cold, spicy green curry paired with pulut hitam-esque black glutinous rice, and quite the exhilarating, Indian-tinged dive into savoury dessertdom. You will finish the serving not quite sure if you had just eaten a dessert, and the meal will feel…
Stir-fried squid with runny salted egg from Gin Khao. Truly one of the best salted egg yolk items I have ever tasted. Instead of slathering the soft and chewy squid with aggressively-flavoured thick, pasty salted egg yolk goo as most others would do, the approach here was to leave the salted…
Lala Bee Hoon from Spicy Thai-Thai Cafe. The very wet bee hoon strides in with an unabashedly fiesty and peppery sass, taking absolutely no prisoners and instantly triggering ooohs of ardourous appreciation and approval from my dining companions. But for the fact that prawns beat clams any day, this would…
Claypot coconut tom yum soup from Spicy Thai-Thai Cafe. Wildly different from its more sadistic Red Tom Yum Soup sibling on the menu. The tom yum soup was robustly spicy yet at the same time sweet and not too milky, and I enjoyed the uncommon inclusion of coconut slices, which…
Thai walking catfish with spicy lemon soup from Spicy Thai-Thai Cafe. The spicy lemon soup was suitably sharp and spicy, and should sufficiently satisfy all heat-seekers. The flames just kept on going and going, so you get the soup piping hot throughout the meal! However, the soup somehow lacked a certain…
Cha-Yen bingsu from Chick and Ken – Thai tea glace, home-made red rubies, honeyed corn flakes and Thai tea gelee. Essentially surprisingly good Thai milk tea ice kachang, and somehow by magical diffusion or similar scientific mechanism the Thai milk tea flavour and scent is distinct and detected in every…
Stir-fried squid with chillies, green peppercorns and basil at Long Chim. The sauce was thick, salty, and sharply spicy – the kind of life partner every rice grain dreams of meeting, someday. The marquee name almost feels like a supporting actor here but is itself commendable for its crunchiness, although…
Chiang Mai chicken relish with cabbage, chilli and mint. Delectably fatty and salty, and wickedly spicy of the slow-burn, mouth-numbing variety. Remarkably humble a dish (and humbly-priced at $10), yet it spectacularly kickstarts a meal on a supernova explosive note. 4.3/5 P.S. One needs to be faithful to the concept…