Prawn ravioli from CreatureS – creamy prawn filling with ginger-garlic-thyme butter sauce. It’s all about the butter sauce and pine nuts here, with the controversial wonton skin and prawn filling almost feeling like mere means/transportation devices for the above-mentioned to travel into my waiting mouth. Serve these to me with…
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…
Gardenasia Mee Goreng Pasta from Gardenasia. Essentially a slightly spicy and richly tomatoed mee goreng, and a dead ringer for the original apart from the noodles here being firm and bouncy instead of limp and nuah as the hawker variety can be. 3.6/5 Gardenasia 240 Neo Tiew Crescent Singapore 718898
Char-grilled Ribeye Hor Fun from Gardenasia. Essentially your standard hor fun dish, done competently and given a classy Western upgrade with enjoyably chewy ribeye. A generous sprinkling of black pepper flavours the beef rather well and the little black runts somehow find their way onto every spoonful of gravy or…
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…
462 Laksa Prawn Pasta from Tolido’s Espresso Nook. Instantly one of my favourite alternative laksa interpretations. Fragrant and spicy, the pasta is utterly and evenly drenched with thick laksa gravy and the gravy somehow magically lasts until the final mouthful. Bits of salty dried shrimps add an marvelously addictive crunch…
Tiger Prawn from Pluck – baked tiger prawn, slow cooked egg, chilli crab puree, cilantro oil and mantou. Essentially lobster served with a crabby, chilli-spicy soft-boiled egg gravy. The prawn was massive, buttery, bitter and really, really phat (this tiger probably hid in its den and remained sedentary during its…
Lap cheong aglio olio from Collective Brewers – sauteed garlic, chilli flakes and olive oil with linguine, alongside wilted spinach, shiitake mushroom and smoked chinese sausages. Not something I would have a second round of – prawns and aglio olio share a relationship no hussy has any right to homewreck…
Ondeh Ondeh pancake from Collective Brewers – traditional buttermilk pancakes infused with aromatic pandan and stacked on shredded coconut and melted palm sugar coating, served with vanilla ice cream. The pancakes were extremely aromatic and rather buttery, and reminded me of the fragrance and texture of a slightly uncooked waffle…