Truffle soba from Two Bakers. The soba was made appealingly salty and fragrant by the sauce and seasoning with the truffle being as light as a mynah’s roadside abandoned feather with its touch, never being too heavy-handed with its usually militant agenda. Elsewhere, the succulent portobello mushroom squirted its juices…
Fisherman’s Mee Sua from Gastrosmiths – seafood medley, homemade scampi bisque, signature-style mee sua. Essentially the mee siam-esque gustatory equivalent of a breathtakingly beautiful and Dior-perfumed blogger who does pilates, eats walnuts and edamame as midday snacks and replies to everything with vapid three word utterances. Notwithstanding, the scallops had…
Somen with lap cheong oil and tiger prawn at Kite. Essentially cold noodles positively drenched in an alluringly spicy curry powder-satay sauce hybrid, with ickle bouncy prawn curls for accompanying crunch. 4/5 Kite 53 Craig Road Singapore 089691
Baked prawns in claypot from Rochor Thai – fresh prawns and vermicelli, peppercorns, garlic and coriander baked in a claypot. An appetite-arousing aroma assaults your senses once the cover is removed, but once your saliva forms and expectations peak the fragrance quickly peters out. What’s left is essentially levelled-up and…
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…
Curry chicken bee hoon mee from Ah Heng Curry Chicken Bee Hoon Mee. When I was doing my pupillage at a law firm in Fortune Centre, this legendary curry mee was a guilty indulgence I’d revisit over and over again for that chilli so intensely and deeply smoky, chimneys wave…
Fishball Noodles from Song Kee Fishball Noodles. On this anarchic battlefield, all bets are off and you and your dining companions must divide and conquer in order to safely secure a meal. There’s a queue for the cashier, who grants you a magical numbered plaque; then, you and your friends…
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…
Seafood Laksa Pasta from The Diner by The Travelling C.O.W.. While other laksa/pasta crossover projects (the magnificent Tolido’s Espresso Nook variant comes to mind) bring the flavour of laksa to the pasta playground for exploratory experimentation, here the interpretation remains true to its traditional laksa beliefs. Essentially old-school laksa but…