Bean powder snow bingsu from Twins. Essentially a blend of muah chee, rhino skin and O’ma Spoon-esque snowflakey milk ice, but instead created using HL milk and a 3D printer. 2.9/5 Twins 7 Craig Road Singapore 089667
Lobster porridge from Diamond Kitchen – steamed local lobsters, “pao fan”, chicken stock, Chinese wine and ginger. Essentially a most tenacious giant prawn sitting in a light and comforting broth. The lobster, easily extracted from the remnants of its former home, tasted like it must have been an athletic man who…
Diamond gan xiang crab from Diamond Kitchen – Sri Lankan crab wok-fried with spices. It’s all about the sauce when it comes to crabs and this gan xiang sauce – an intriguing mix of sambal, bean paste and curry powder – was ridiculously fragrant and addictive (the kind of substance one…
Hong Kong steamed giant grouper from Diamond Kitchen. Not sure what aquatic kinfolk eat in Hong Kong waters but aside from being giant, the grouper tasted remarkably meatier and chewier than its brethren elsewhere. The skin itself should have its own Kinohimitsu endorsement deal – your face would in all…
Garlic steamed bamboo clam from Diamond Kitchen – Scottish bamboo clam, glass noodles, enoki mushrooms, water chestnuts, Hong Kong steamed sauce, and crispy fried garlic. While there were disappointingly no kilts in sight, the clams were soft and chewy with only the faintest of that distinctive and sometimes divisive clammy…
Mango bingsu from Snowy Village. Compared to the erect confidence of the towering bingsus from most other Korean joints, this contender looked majorly flaccid and lethargic. The mangoes tasted like they have led rather fruitful long lives, while the milk ice positively showered me with unadulterated love from Mummy Cow’s…
Mango bingsu. The mangoes were fresh and sweet, whilst the mango ice cream was delightful, with dried sticky mango bits within. The shaved milk melted with more haste than the 6.30pm Raffles Place crowd into MRT trains and thus it would be inaccurate to regard this as a bingsu in…
Bijin nabe (beauty hotpot, or 美人鍋) from Tsukada Nojo. Essentially the hotpot equivalent of your mother, grandmother or similar female maternal figure caressing your back and making you feel warm and fuzzy inside, and telling you everything is going to be just fine. Hands down my favourite hotpot experience in the…
Mango bingsu with soft serve at Snowman Desserts. The soft serve was like McDonald’s ice cream, but with the cow’s mammary glands on hyper super-milky overdrive. The mango chunks were massive, soft and sweet, but somehow the milk snow here was less snowy and more icy than I expected, and…