The Mannuvasanai Menu from Muthu’s Curry (Race Course Road), which pays homage to Chettinad in South India. Spiciness exists on different levels across the dishes, from non-existent (Vazhathandu Kootu or banana shoots, supposedly good for your internal pee bags) to the cumulative slow burn (Vendaikkai and Mochai Mandi or white kidney beans and…
Edomae Hikarimono Don from Ginza Kuroson – selection of aji, saba and kanpachi sashimi (three varieties of silver-skinned fish) on a bed of rice. If you pardon the seemingly modest portion, this is truly a rice bowl from heaven if you’re a fan of silver-skinned (read: fishy) fish sashimi -…
Kuroson Tempura Don from Ginza Kuroson (Takashimaya) – pumpkin, seaweed, shiso leaf, mushroom, fish, calamari and prawn tempura on a bed of rice. The tempura portion was surprisingly generous and wonderfully varied in type, and the batter always remained on the right side of fried. 4/5 P.S. I don’t normally…
Baked blinis from FYR Cycene Ond Drinc – blinis (thin pancake made with yeasted butter) with grilled salmon, egg, Avruga caviar and grated Bottarga. The blini tasted like a interesting, savoury cross between soft dough and butter cake, while elsewhere the roe appeared to have undergone cellular fusion and the…
Scallop & Mixed Fish Don from Teppei Syokudo. Essentially your standard value-for-money if slightly too salty Teppei Syokudo Kaisendon but with a few fish chunks substituted for scallop. Not entirely sure scallop wears the marinate as well as her fishly brethren – the porcelain beauty is beautiful just as she…
Pancake Soufflé with Peach from Hoshino Coffee Singapore. Whilst the signature pancake souffle was probably made with magical Angora bunny fur, the peaches were unfortunately a tad Del Monte. 3.7/5 P.S. I had a similar item at a Hoshino Coffee outlet in Tokyo and the peach slices used were fresh,…
larvitar x rubbisheatrubbishgrow. A good dish at La Ventana (fun fact: owner Carles Gaig also owns the one Michelin-starred Restaurant Gaig in Barcelona) would be the Carabinero Paella ($34) – carnaroli rice with calamari and carabinero prawn. While I was busy snapping a picture of the paella, Salaryman was busy salivating…
Pigeon from La Ventana Singapore – whole pigeon cooked in two ways (Josper-grilled and confit) and served with truffle mash and sauce made with pigeon bones. The leg confit fared competently, but the pigeon may have sustained a serious chest injury from all the free weights training (due to societal…
Glazed scallops from La Ventana Singapore – Hokkaido scallops (4 units) with Jerusalem artichoke in three textures. Perhaps size doesn’t always matter – the scallops were undeniably gargantuan but lacked that vulnerably soft tenderness that make the taste of scallop so distinctive, every inch of their waxen bodies being uniformly…