Stir-fried squid with chillies, green peppercorns and basil at Long Chim. The sauce was thick, salty, and sharply spicy – the kind of life partner every rice grain dreams of meeting, someday. The marquee name almost feels like a supporting actor here but is itself commendable for its crunchiness, although…
Chiang Mai chicken relish with cabbage, chilli and mint. Delectably fatty and salty, and wickedly spicy of the slow-burn, mouth-numbing variety. Remarkably humble a dish (and humbly-priced at $10), yet it spectacularly kickstarts a meal on a supernova explosive note. 4.3/5 P.S. One needs to be faithful to the concept…
Tom Yam Goong with Prawns & Fish Maw. The soup was like a confused adolescent who couldn’t decide if it wanted to swing towards Chinese (we’re talking tofu, mushroom, tomatoes and the Kombi Rocks signature fishcake used as ingredients) or Thai, so it just nonchalantly wore a Qipao and said…
Secret Thai Chilli Chicken and Goddess Chicken. At the soft launch of The Betterfield, a cafe-bistro concept that serves coffee and cafe fare. I preferred the Secret Thai Chilli Chicken – the sauce is thick, limey, spicy and sweet, and coats the chicken very nicely. 3.8/5 The Goddess Chicken is…
Roast duck in red curry with pineapple. The curry was decently rich and I loved the crunch factor from the vegetables thrown in the mix, although methinks the roast duck probably played a bit too much basketball under the February sun. 3.5/5 [Tasting courtesy of ParaThai.] ParaThai 11 Tanjong Katong…
Steamed seabass with lime and chilli. The indignant-looking seabass soaked in a homemade broth made using fresh lime juice, garlic, chilli, and spring onions among others. The broth was sharply tangy, enormously flavourful and easily the spiciest thing I had that night – two sips in, I was frankly dumbfounded…
Red Rubies served with Jackfruit and Coconut Milk. The rubies were essentially frosty, crunchy pearls that were enjoyably gnawable, but the jackfruit had much personality as Looi Sai Hiam from Class 4C in primary school. 3.3/5⠀ [Tasting courtesy of ParaThai.] ParaThai 11 Tanjong Katong Road #02-23 OneKM Mall Singapore 437157
Crispy chicken skin. Essentially the best bits from fried chicken minus the tedium of having to actually finish off the meat. Each individual piece is darned crispy and comes with a bit of meat and just a bit of fat, so it’s less KFC and more Har Cheong Gai-esque. Worthy…
Spicy pork noodle – glass noodle, pork ball, minced pork meat and vegetables. My favourite from the four Thai boat noodles available, and notably the only one that uses glass over rice noodles. It was sour, mildly spicy and rather refreshing, almost like a salad. I was most intrigued by…