Laksa Fisherman’s Pie from Epicurious – prawn, fish, crabmeat, taupok, carrot and zucchini in spicy laksa broth with a puff pastry top. Essentially roti prata served with distilled laksa concentrate, so powerfully flavoured that you must savour it by way of dipping the pastry and only sucking the soak in order…
Roast Pork Aglio Olio from Old Boys Gallery. What you get if one of those glamorously-blinged, big-permed aunties chopping meats behind the hanging carcasses and greasy partition decides to marry an angmoh chef – the roast pork (sio bak) is sweet, fatty and lean all at once with each piece…
Fickle Ravioli Green Curry from The Fickle Mussel – chicken spiced and wrapped in ravioli served in green curry. The minced chicken filling had the no-nonsense candour and meatiness of a tattooed chaokeng storeman, remaining safe in its ravioli bunk away from any propaganda and brainwashing from the weak, Indian-tinged green…
Thailand from Paddy Hills – shirotake glass noodles, Thai dressing, calamari, fresh mango and nori tempura. The noodles were thin and highly slurpable, coated in a sexy dressing that is tangy and slightly spicy. Elsewhere, the calamari is initially addictive with its salty energy but your patience quickly wears thin…
Tom Yum Seafood Pasta from Collective Brewers – medley of sauteed prawns, mussels and squid with capsicum, mushroom, Thai basil and spaghetti in a creamy Tom Yum sauce. Not my ultimate favourite tom yum seafood pasta just yet – Rise & Grind still holds the throne as of July 2015…
Curry Prawn Risotto from The Wicked Garlic. The six prawns had the girth of the ridiculously muscled men that sashay out of the yoga studio/rock climbing wall room next to Brawn & Brains, whilst the risotto and its spicy Indian mystique remind you (in a most fond and complimentary way)…
Ochazuke Konbu Spaghetti from Curious Palette. The equivalent of that “exotic” racially mixed person you met in primary school who did not fit cleanly into that whole CMIO framework and looked really unique and attractive and had a cool accent. The ang moh spaghetti had the strong aroma of Chinese…
Ma Jie’s Indulgence chilli crab pasta from The Quarters. The chef must have been a former mathematician, distributor or similar as both the sweet and ever so slightly spicy sauce as well as the generous portion of crab chunks are evenly distributed throughout with mathematical precision. 3.7/5 The Quarters 16…
Satay Burger from The Quarters – spiced and marinated chicken thigh between rice patties, served with peanut sauce. The rice patties intrigued with its orh jian (oyster pancake)-esque crisp, while the well-marinated satay chicken and the accompanying sweet and notably nutty peanut sauce deliver the goods with the efficiency of…