Wakame & romaine salad from Open Door Policy – hamachi sashimi, tomatoes, onion & miso dressing. The hamachi slices were moist, supple and delectably oiled, with a thickness so bitable and substantial that you can club your friends’ faces with these marvellous and literally yellow tails, and elsewhere the wakame…
Espárragos y Gambas a la Plancha from My Little Spanish Place – grilled asparagus and prawns, fried egg and “salsa verde”. Essentially what you get if a European matronly chef decides to marry Chinese tze char and the Western concept of brunch. So simple and basic, yet so satisfying. 3.9/5…
Crispy Duck Pancake from Soi 60 – lychee, Thai herbs, black vinegar reduction. The pancake was like a Indian-spiced prata who eats Wheat Baumkuchen and The Daily Cut for lunch, while the juicy lychee and moist duck had the same chemistry with the salty and slightly spicy black sauce as…
Rare yellow fin tuna tataki with compressed watermelon, goat cheese mousse, chia and flax seeds from Pool Grill. Like a really gorgeous clean salad for glamorous socialites with big sunglasses and sunkissed light chestnut locks. The watermelon provided a much-needed spurt of refreshing juice to the reserved, meaty fish cuts. 3.6/5…
Pan-fried duck foie gras with apricot confiture, toasted pistachio and vincotto from Pool Grill. Whilst the outer layer of the foie gras was already soft and wobbly, the core was positively molten liver goodness. A buttery, crusty toast provides texture, and elsewhere the apricot confiture, tasing much like thick purée, prevented…
Mad Mussels from The Fickle Mussel – spicy mussels slapped with lemongrass aroma, garlic and chilli, and touted with a cut of toasted sourdough bread. The mussels are good…in the sense that they are absorbent conduits between your mouth and the swimming pool they are lounging in, which is a…
Otah by The Bay at SREEET 50. Whilst the otah does lack a vital gritty spiciness which is present in the best otah, the $8.90 price tag and the absolute avalanche of octopus, clams, garoupa and scallops (!!) justifies its viability as an option for late night munchies. 3.6/5 Want…
Grilled squid from FYR Cycene Ond Drinc. Massively addictive and flavourful (I don’t know what those salty, crispy toppings are but they disintegrated in my mouth far too quickly), and so deeply, deeply smoky that the dish should come with a warning label and a hotline for quitting. 4/5 This…
Glazed scallops from La Ventana Singapore – Hokkaido scallops (4 units) with Jerusalem artichoke in three textures. Perhaps size doesn’t always matter – the scallops were undeniably gargantuan but lacked that vulnerably soft tenderness that make the taste of scallop so distinctive, every inch of their waxen bodies being uniformly…