Tiger prawn aglio olio from Richmond Station. The rather stinko sprinkled cheese started the experience on a decidedly low-brow note, but fortunately after some tossing pepper and chilli padi were successful in their dual effort to help mask traces of the above-mentioned. Elsewhere, the tiger prawns were happily fat and…
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…
Garlic prawn aglio olio from P. Bistro – capellini, garlic confit, roasted prawns, and chilli garnish. While the pasta was not at all spicy, there was enough faintly bitter garlic at play to scare off junior vampire babies, the prawns were nicely grilled with a tinge of pastiness, and the…
Aglio olio with prawns, mushrooms and squid from The Wicked Garlic. These are my comments from my virgin experience a year ago: “Amazingly wok hei prawns, and wickedly value for money. It’s the PSLE top student of aglio olios seriously, why it doesn’t have its own Brands Essence of Chicken…
Mushroom aglio olio from Oberstrasse. The amount and nauseating pungency of the cheese (probably enough to spook even the most undiscerning and itchy-mouthed mouse) must immediately be dealt with, and I did – off it went into a wad of tissue paper. The pasta was well and evenly seasoned, being…
Mushroom Aglio Olio with Prawns. Flawlessly executed – the optimal level and combination of al dente, oil and chilli padi spiciness is happily achieved. Check out the big, fat and crunchy prawns, which soak up the flavour of the spicy oil so marvelously that I actually cut them all into…
Prawn and bacon aglio olio with mushrooms and chilli padi. If this pasta were human it’d be a feisty, earthy and well-bosomed farm girl. The aglio olio is aggressively fragrant, smelling smokily porky with a strong hint of mushroom. The bacon here isn’t the crispy sort but of the chewy…
Teriyaki Chicken Aglio Olio. The enjoyably sweet teriyaki chicken went surprisingly well with the salty spiciness of the pasta, and I was sufficiently distracted from the fact that chicken is merely the kept woman of aglio olio whilst his prawny soulmate was away for work. I wanted to say that…
Aglio olio – spaghetti with sautéed garlic, chilli and pine nuts, finished with extra virgin olive oil. Nicely wet and oily. Unlike standard chilli padi, the chilli deployed here was of the dried and slightly burnt variety, and the spiciness is transient, disappearing before the iced water touches your lips.…