XYT Ayam Percik from Xiao Ya Tou. Essentially the curry chicken equivalent of watching The Conjuring 2 – you go in wanting reliable scares and then you get one jump scare, and another comes, and another, and before you know it a whopping 134 minutes have elapsed and you’re still…
Boston Love Boat Ciponio from Arteastiq – medley of the seas (baby octopus, salmon meat, scallop and prawns) in claypot, baked with en feuillantine and served with arugula salad. The pastry was energetically crisp and buttery, and there’s plenty of amorous activity on set – the stew is essentially the…
Venison sirloin flambéed with Suntory Kakubin Kuro whisky at your table, served with coriander salsa verde, broccolini and sautéed cherry tomatoes from Arteastiq. Possessing the taboo yumminess of a strict yet attractive discipline master, the chewy and roasty venison sirloin tantalised with its decidedly inappropriate naughty squirts of dizzying alcohol…
French Foie Gras Linguine Aglio Olio from Mad About Sucre’s new summer menu. The peppery, garlicky and well-oiled linguine was zhup-ly wet with anticipation while elsewhere the delicate, gossamer-skinned cubes of foie gras deflate marvellously in your mouth, revealing their indulgently, lusciously gooey softness within. 4.1/5 Mad About Sucre 27…
Le Caillou from Mad About Sucre’s new summer cake collection – pecan nut, mandarin orange, Caribbean rum, milk chocolate pecan nut short bread. The slightly grainy pecan orb was nuttily assertive with a Bailey-esque creaminess, and sat its voluptuously buxomly self on a rich, indulgent chocolate rice-y cushion. At its…
Ugly Spicy Herb Chicken from What’s This Korean Restaurant. Essentially your commercially competent spicy chicken from Jollibee, KFC or similar, coated in a nutty, chee cheong fun-esque sweet sauce. 3.6/5 What’s This Korean Restaurant 87 Killiney Road Singapore 239533
Spicy Roast Chicken Stew (2 pax, $48) from What’s This, a new Korean concept along Killiney Road. The stew was sweet and audaciously, scalp-itchingly incendiary, whilst elsewhere the minus-sized chicken parts likely grew up idolising Olsen twin-esque stick figure and petite role models. 3.7/5 What’s This Korean Restaurant 87 Killiney…
Steamed Cod stuffed with Mushrooms and Water Chestnuts in Paper Roll from Jiang-Nan Chun. Essentially a light, juice-cleansed and yoga-performing deconstructed Chinese soya glace fish bear-hugged by a chewy, fleshy Vietnamese rice paper roll creature. 3.9/5 This was a hosted meal, courtesy of Jiang-Nan Chun. Jiang-Nan Chun 190 Orchard Boulevard…
Gooey Banana Donuts “Milo Dinosaur” with Milo crumbs, condensed milk and hazelnuts from Redpan. Despite both being mid-embrace, the piping hot goreng pisang-esque balls maintained a frosty emotional disconnect from the Milo crumbs, with the latter gazing longingly across the room at the delectably roasty hazelnuts as Steps’ “It’s The…