ChiChi Dining is a new restaurant from the folks behind dessert concept Nesuto which launched in February 2020, taking over the corner space along Amoy Street formerly occupied by Aloha Poke. Helmed by Daniel Yee, the former head culinary chef of the now-defunct 52 Sandwich Shack, the concept serves Asian…
The UTW (“Under Ten Words”): Japanese Sake Bar, where presently food is ancillary. The must-orders (if any): Sake Aragato Flight, Baby Corn Summary: Kabuke is a second-storey Japanese sake bar situated along Telok Ayer Street, offering a selection of sake and very attractively priced sake flights (wherein you get a fixed combination of…
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…
[NEW] [Telok Ayer] [Opened: TODAY] I haven’t eaten breakfast and I WAN 吞 some wanton (leave the Chinese puns to the pros, bro – Editor). Well, I’m in luck because the gourmet wanton noodle bar Wanton opens TODAY. Lunch menu is straightforward while the dinner menu allows you to customize…
Baba au Rhum from Sugarhall, with jamaican rum syrup and whipped cream. Sugarhall is all about the rum, and here they certainly don’t hold back – the rum is generously present (I’ve been to stingier joints where they probably use one squirt from a pipette or similar science class apparatus)…
Fish soup noodles from Ka Soh (Swee Kee Fishhead Noodle House). The fish stock boasts to have high levels of protein, calcium and collagen. It supposedly includes no milk, its whiteness stemming from all the boiled fish bone goodness. All I know is that the stock tastes wondrously comforting and rich,…