Fried Chicken (half portion) from Punch’s dinner menu – tomato and roasted capsicum relish, blue cheese dip, pickles. The fried chicken wore its delicious crusty curry powder-esque hide with pride, whilst elsewhere the surprisingly addictive relish was like a complicated love triangle involving grape, tomato and red pepper. 3.7/5 Punch…
Classic provoleta, almonds & oregano honey from Bochinche. The playfully sweet, honey-soaked provoleta has the stringiness of the most refined mozzarella as well as the soft, resilient elasticity of chewing gum, and the soft fluffy bread wraps around it with the sensuality and comfort of a body-sheathing taffeta gown. 4.2/5…
Brussels sprouts with chipotle, egg and raisin from Humpback’s spanking new Sunday Brunch menu. Essentially a valentine to everybody’s favourite fartogenic vegetable, with the oil-plump brussels sprouts having a most exemplary bitter crunchiness and some blessed pieces possessing bits of delightfully charred, crisp and paper-thin skin that go crack upon…
Warm Octopus Salad from Kilo – grilled octopus, nam jim, peanut brittle. The nicely charred octopus had a good spring in its step and the shrimpy nam jim had a most sassy and alluring tartness. Elsewhere, the buttery mash served as a marvellous binding agent for bringing together the octopus,…
Naughty Pork & Beans from Kilo – tom yum stewed beans, pork jowl, sour kale chips & chorizo. Whilst the mutant tom yum stewed beans and the kale chips pairing did its Bangkok reenactment with the gusto of the best Chinese Opera pupils from Poi Ching School, the piggies may…
Grilled Steak with Kimchi Fries from Paper Crane. The steak released smoky meaty juices with each sink of teeth, whilst elsewhere the wet cabbage chunks had the mild sourness of a periodic Clinique salesgirl (I do not approve of this imagery – Editor). I asked for the spicy coriander mayo…
Popcorn chicken with spicy coriander mayo and homemade chilli sauce from Paper Crane, situated within the SCWO near Bras Basah MRT. The wet chilli sauce sends lashings of powdery incendiaries onto the tongue, with the creamy coriander mayo being the chilli’s herbier, tangier sister. The dips are so naughtily revelatory,…
Sweet & Sour Pork on the Rocks from Kai Garden. While the glacial context keeps the coats of the McNugget-esque meat balls fairly chilled, the balls intriguingly maintain both coat crispness and a comforting level of bodily warmth. 3.7/5 This was a hosted meal, courtesy of Kai Garden. Kai Garden…
Roasted Pork Belly from Aloha Poké. The razor-crisp salty skin had a stickiness that would likely engage your teeth in a frenzied dance while elsewhere, each piece of the tender meat commits harakiri within your mouth and splits into more segments for your chewing pleasure, and the charred pineapple cubes…