Ton Shabu Set from Tonkichi – blanched, thin sliced pork loin with sesame sauce and ponzu sauce. Essentially a shabu shabu experience sans the heat and steam, with citrus-tinged, super-soft and highly absorbent 1-ply pork sponges which soak up the refreshing combination of sesame and ponzu sauces perfectly. 4/5 This…
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…
Roast Pork Aglio Olio from Old Boys Gallery. What you get if one of those glamorously-blinged, big-permed aunties chopping meats behind the hanging carcasses and greasy partition decides to marry an angmoh chef – the roast pork (sio bak) is sweet, fatty and lean all at once with each piece…
Brewers’ Pulled Pork from Collective Brewers – slow-cooked pork shoulder marinated with our coffee spiced dry rub, BBQ sauce infused with our cold brew concentrate and caramelised onions, on sesame toasted buns. The coffee elements may have been on a coffee break (groans ahoy – Editor) so it was mainly…
Zhu Burger from CreatureS – pork patty marinated with XO Cognac, topped with cheese, caramelised onions, mesclun salad and tomato, and served with crispy fries. Save for the titular Zhu, which tastes like moist, fatty and crunchy ngoh hiang filling, the dish whizzes by like an SBS bus on the…
BBQ baby back ribs from Roosevelt’s Diner & Bar. There is nothing babyish about the masculinely tender pork ribs. Striking a happy balance between chewy fat and pig toughness, the meat strips itself off the bones with the eagerness of a BMT recruit. Essential to the experience is the sweet,…
Roasted marinated pork ribs served with homemade traditional sauce from Little Saigon. If you close your eyes, you can fantasize that you have been magically transported to lunchtime at a hawker centre, as the combination of meat and sauce here is a dead ringer for (good) roast duck (!!). 3.2/5 Little…
Slow roasted mangalitsa belly – thick cut mangalitsa pork belly, onion, garlic, Dijon mustard, spring onion salad. Like an ex-Eagle from BMT who was posted to Guards and just started gymming, this is half chewy lean torso and half slightly caramelized and burnt fatty bits. Essentially the perfect char siew…
BBQ Pork Neck. If you only order one item from Spicy Thai – Thai Café, let it be this. Smokier than a singlet at Chomp Chomp on Saturday nights at 9PM and more tender (although equally charred) than the flesh of a tanned, buff dragonboater wearing said singlet, with just…