Grilled Iberico pork collar served with Issan-style dip from Rochor Thai. The texture of the fatty pork collar is not so much meat as it is a most intriguingly delectable rubbery gelatin with sexily smoky edges, and the slices are addictive in their own right without assistance from the insistently…
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…
Baked Mangalitsa Kimchi Rice from Joo Bar – grilled Mangalitsa belly, chopped house-made kimchi, onion, mozzarella, pecorino, parmesan, bechamel sauce. It smothers you, douses you and beats you over the head with the fragrance-inclined tail of its cheesetastic agenda, but fan or not of cheese, it’s unequivocally the best pick…
“Pasta X Chicken X Green Curry = ??” from Som Tam – pan-seared pasta with sweet and savoury Thai green curry. Essentially a most scintillating extra-marital jungle romp between instant noodle curry powder, mee rebus and green curry…if you request for it to be more spicy. The picture on the…
Spicy Mangalitsa Deopbap from Joo Bar’s lunch menu – sliced spicy mangalitsa belly, poached egg, zucchini, spring onion, crispy onion, carrot, white rice. Whilst the bitter and mega-crispy onion rings possessed an irresistible addictiveness and the lean mangalitsa belly – nicely covered in a sweet and mildly spicy sauce -…
After You toast with Thai basil and Chocolate Chip ice cream from Som Tam. Compared to Tuk Tuk Cha’s golden crumbliness, the saltily buttery toast here is of a notably softer, gentler ilk and elsewhere, the Thai basil and chocolate chip combination tasted like chippy tropical jungle. 3.9/5 Som Tam…
Wakame & romaine salad from Open Door Policy – hamachi sashimi, tomatoes, onion & miso dressing. The hamachi slices were moist, supple and delectably oiled, with a thickness so bitable and substantial that you can club your friends’ faces with these marvellous and literally yellow tails, and elsewhere the wakame…
Espárragos y Gambas a la Plancha from My Little Spanish Place – grilled asparagus and prawns, fried egg and “salsa verde”. Essentially what you get if a European matronly chef decides to marry Chinese tze char and the Western concept of brunch. So simple and basic, yet so satisfying. 3.9/5…
Bibik bouillabaisse with mussels, snapper and prawns from Epicurious. The stew was enormously flavourful with the robust life essence of presumably six hundred and seventy two fishies, with a playful spice feist and just a hint of coconut to give it a curryish tease. 4/5 This item is part of…