BiBim bingsu from BiBing. Essentially HL chocolate milk (?) mixed with nuts, fruits and yogurt (not llaollao, but the cheap supermarket variety you eat for better bowel movements). 3.1/5 BiBing 50 Smith Street Singapore 058958
Seared & Sashimi Salmon Don from Teppei Syokudo. Whilst the marinated sashimi salmon felt reassuringly familiar, the seared salmon unflinchingly remained true to his raw self, despite society and the menu requiring him to be aburi. 3.6/5 Teppei Syokudo 391 Orchard Road #B2 Takashimaya Food Hall, Ngee Ann City Singapore…
Buah Keluak from Candlenut – buah keluak ice cream made with 80% Valhrona chocolate on a bed of salted caramel, chocolate crumble and chilli specks, topped with warm milk chocolate espuma. One of the most stunning local desserts I’ve tried this year. The buah keluak ice cream was itself an…
Coconut charcoal-grilled wild-caught red snapper with smoked sea salt and dried shrimp sambal from Candlenut. The meaty fish had a rather chicken satay-esque texture, whilst the gritty and remarkably shrimpy sambal was sweet yet aggressively spicy at the same time. 3.9/5 Candlenut 331 New Bridge Road #01-03 Dorsett Residences Singapore…
Yeye’s Kari from Candlenut – a white coconut curry of prawns with green chilli padi, green peppercorns, kaffir lime leaf and fried shallots. Essentially green curry prawns given a creamy, indulgent mega-upgrade of coconut. 3.8/5 Candlenut 331 New Bridge Road #01-03 Dorsett Residences Singapore 088764
Strawberry bingsu from Nunsongyee. While we were positively smothered with love from all them fleshy and sweet strawberries, the cows that provided the milk used for the shaved milk ice might have been lactationally challenged as the ice was rather tasteless, a far cry from the milky goodness experienced during…
Negitoro don from Oceans of Seafood. Rather appalling – the negitoro was emotionally distant and clumpy, the hard egg yolk with its remnants of white felt like something constipationally crapped out, and accessing the rice via the spring onion required NSF-jungle training levels of forest bashing. I can’t even. 2.6/5…
Sake blossom – Japanese sake, St. Germain elderflower, lemon juice, homemade rose sato, nigori sake. Starts off all casual Japanese woman sultry, but go deeper and the drink segues into the familiar passions of sweet bandung. Yes, as in the Mr Teh Tarik at Ang Mo Kio Avenue 5 type of…
Gambas picantes from My Little Tapas Bar – fresh shrimp cooked in a dish of boiling olive oil with garlic, chili and smoked paprika. Instead of being all Olive Oyl, the slightly spicy stock was positively eye-popping (what’s next, a spinach and sailor reference? – Editor) with its prawn richness,…