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…
Fiery Pan Seared Seabass with Clams from The Fickle Mussel. The seabass was wonderfully cooked and flaked most gracefully, but the peanut sauce-esque sambal was as fiery as an extinguished cigarette thrown into a CBD dustbin nine days ago, and the clams – presumably used to prop the seabass and…
Pan Seared Salmon from Canopy Garden Bar – pan seared salmon on a bed of mashed potatoes & a healthy combination of leek, lettuce, green peas, vegetable broth and bacon. Essentially a well-cooked salmon in a comforting light broth designed to simulate a grandmother’s protective warm hug, and ideal for…
The Mannuvasanai Menu from Muthu’s Curry (Race Course Road), which pays homage to Chettinad in South India. Spiciness exists on different levels across the dishes, from non-existent (Vazhathandu Kootu or banana shoots, supposedly good for your internal pee bags) to the cumulative slow burn (Vendaikkai and Mochai Mandi or white kidney beans and…
Baked blinis from FYR Cycene Ond Drinc – blinis (thin pancake made with yeasted butter) with grilled salmon, egg, Avruga caviar and grated Bottarga. The blini tasted like a interesting, savoury cross between soft dough and butter cake, while elsewhere the roe appeared to have undergone cellular fusion and the…
Miso cod and ulam onigiri at CreatureS – oven-roasted miso cod with belachan assam herb rice balls. The fleshy, wet miso cod executed its duties with poised reliability whilst the shrimpy, flossy balls smelled like they had spent the afternoon rolling around at 328 Katong. 3.7/5 CreatureS 120 Desker Road…
Coconut charcoal-grilled wild-caught red snapper with smoked sea salt and dried shrimp sambal from Candlenut. The meaty fish had a rather chicken satay-esque texture, whilst the gritty and remarkably shrimpy sambal was sweet yet aggressively spicy at the same time. 3.9/5 Candlenut 331 New Bridge Road #01-03 Dorsett Residences Singapore…
Sake blossom – Japanese sake, St. Germain elderflower, lemon juice, homemade rose sato, nigori sake. Starts off all casual Japanese woman sultry, but go deeper and the drink segues into the familiar passions of sweet bandung. Yes, as in the Mr Teh Tarik at Ang Mo Kio Avenue 5 type of…
Seafood Bouillabaisse from The Royal Mail Restaurant & Bar. The langoustine, essentially a massive prawn who tasted like he had spent his formative years on Sixth Avenue and played golf on weekends, did the PR heavy lifting with his intense and brooding good looks while the other featured stars simply…