Squid ink tagliatelle with “inferno” sauce, calamari, asparagus and chilli padi from Open Farm Community. The spiciness of the nicely springy pasta was a slow burn and lingered without ever being interfering, and I preferred the salty and addictive fried calamari over the more traditional naked version. Interestingly as I…
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…
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
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 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…
Duck confit pesto linguine from Artistry. The well-oiled linguine was highly satisfying despite being seemingly sparse on the meat side and the combination of green pesto and duck confit looking a wee bit sewage gloop-esque. 4/5 Artistry 17 Jalan Pinang Singapore 199149
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…
Tom Yum Seafood Pasta from Rise & Grind Coffee Co. – squid, fish, shrimp, creamy tom yum sauce, nori. I have had overrated interpretations of this dish elsewhere which left me cold, but here my breath (and all sensation in the lips) were taken away rapidly. The creamy tom yum…
Bang Bang Prawn Pasta from The Prawn Star – warm cappellini, mayonnaise, chilli and lime. Like the spiritual Thai sister of the Fried Meesua with Kimchi Purée from Gastrosmiths. The oily strands of sweet and spicy capellini are so slurpsome and full of flavour, they steal the spotlight from the…