Portico Favourites high tea menu at Portico Prime. Terrific value for money for the quality and quantity on display. The chilled truffle-scented angel hair pasta with avruga caviar and kawa ebi shrimps barges into your sensory pleasure memory orbs with the rapacious ruthlessness of a disgruntled Bukit Gombak-residing Ah Ma…
Bangkok Fried Chicken with green chilli nam jim from Bird Bird. The chicken smells like it had just finished a rejuvenating spa session, whilst elsewhere the green chilli nam jim launches a fiery seed blast which envelopes your tongue with a sharp citric wave – an attack that is, interestingly,…
Sauced Padi Garlic Chicken from Oven & Fried Chicken. Essentially sweet Korean fried chicken caught in flagrante with Two Chef Eating Place’s famous drunken cockles. Garlic dominates the conversation, whilst elsewhere those equipped with Mario-esque levels of evasion can actually cleanly avoid the vicious scarlet traps without any consequence. 4.2/5…
Air-fried chicken winglets from Nekkid, The Naked Finn’s sister bar concept located steps away. Essentially the spirit of chicken satay flying on BBQ pit nostalgia clouds. 3.5/5 Nekkid Block 41 Malan Road Singapore 109454
Mitzo special barbecued pork. The skin of this amazing piggylicious delight must have been separated at birth from crème brûlée. I doodled a diagram in my notes whilst eating this – it was a circle labelled “middle” within a box with area outside the circle shaded and labelled “melts in…
Black Truffle Edamame from Kanshoku Ramen. An experience in itself – you access the little soybeans by sucking on them pods, which are so immersed in truffle flavour that the normally tasteless soybeans themselves become unescapably tasty by virtue of your mouth becoming an intermediary truffle oiling agent. Somebody should…
HarriAnns High Tea Set from HarriAnns – nonya kaya choux, 6 bite-sized kueh and 2 kopi/teh. The kaya/hazelnut choux pastry was an adventurous lad but may have attended one too many mega sugar rushes during the weekend. Elsewhere, the different kueh – with names ranging from the Kylie Minogue-esque “Pink…
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…
Salted Egg Fries from The Quarters. The salted egg dip is like McDonald’s curry sauce undergone some supernova explosion of an evolution – thick, creamy, spicy, peppery and very, very gao. Control your dosage. 3.9/5 This was a hosted meal, courtesy of The Quarters. The Quarters 16 Enggor Street #01-09…