My Aromatic Prawn Noodle, dry with Tom Yum base and added mushrooms. Essentially springy instant noodle meets prawn cracker fries, annoyingly-shelled prawns and shrimpy chilli paste in a dimly lit Thai massage parlour. I piled on the green and red sliced chilli, mixed the chilli paste real nice with the…
Aburi broccoli salad – smoky torched broccoli florets, white balsamic, papadum, and red sugar. The florets, spiritual sisters of deep fried kailan leaves, disintegrate into a million flavour wisps upon contact with your tongue, in manner of a dramatic death scene in a Final Fantasy game. You will marvel at…
Banana beignets – fried-to-order cake-battered bananas served with condensed milk and freshly grated Parmesan. This banana boat (oh brother, you didn’t – Editor) was really goreng pisang putting on a Barbarella accent but not entirely convincing me with its Ang Moh intentions. Judging dem banana balls as goreng pisang, however,…
Georges Bank seared scallops, duck green curry, coconut rice and peanut crumbs. The scallops were fresh and bouncy lumps of happiness whilst the duck was chewy, just a tad tough and rather salty. You probably never tasted coconut rice quite like this – it was not merely fragrant like Nasi…
Oven roasted Chilean sea bass with celeriac, honshimeji and edamame. The fish was good – moist, buttery and well-cooked, with nice crumbs for added crunch. I enjoyed the bitterness of the edamame and mushrooms, but the celeriac left me rather bemused as it tasted very much like it had just…
Slow cooked squid with poached pear, ginger, and candied pistachio. Essentially yusheng with a very daring and post-modern undercut hairstyle, with squid instead of raw fish slices. Each mouthful unveils a new facet of the dish, and you will run the gamut of sweet, nutty, crunchy, tart, crumbly and chewy…
Mille feuille sushi – layered sushi with salmon, tamago and tuna, topped with salmon roe. Sushi enters mid-life crisis and takes an impulsive trip to France, not knowing what to do with her life, and then she stops outside a pastry shop and goes hmmm. The first sushi item I…
Gambas – soba in prawn jus topped with roasted sesame infused minced prawn. Felt like a big vegetarian stir-fry noodle dish. Fantasies of juicy fat prawn chunks sorta got popped with a pin as they probably were so minced, they became molecular. 3.25/5 The Laneway Market 266 Tanjong Katong Road…
Le Char Kuey (dough fritter) with dry laksa filling. Despite being paraded outside its comfort zone of a bowl of gravy for people to gawk at in all its nude glory, the laksa remained winningly slurpsome and wet. However, I’m not sure what the dough fritter, crispy outside and soft…