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,…
Bliss from Yoğart – yogurt with choice of coco bianco sauce, biscuit crumbs and various fruits served with a wooden spoon. Essentially yogurt with that familiar woody taste of ice cream stick that you get during the ending moments of a bar of Paddle Pop or similar cheap ice cream….repeated twenty-five times…
Mango bingsu from Snowy Village. Compared to the erect confidence of the towering bingsus from most other Korean joints, this contender looked majorly flaccid and lethargic. The mangoes tasted like they have led rather fruitful long lives, while the milk ice positively showered me with unadulterated love from Mummy Cow’s…
Prawn risotto from The Betterfield. Essentially what happens after a very gregarious Mui Fan (烩饭) who grew up on Sixth Avenue goes travelling in northern Italy and takes a ride on a Venetian gondola. The risotto rice grains are moist and distinctive and nicely absorb the prawn essence, which results…
Pulled duck burger. Unites the best bits of both the Secret Thai Chilli Chicken and the Duck Confit from The Betterfield, with the other components being perfunctory window dressing. Despite looking here like something disgorged on the roadside after a night of reckless clubbing, I would gladly shovel said questionable…
Duck Confit – duck confit, spinach, berry compote, mushroom fricassee and roasted potato. I can say quite definitively that this is the best duck confit I’ve ever had. The duck skin is salty and wonderfully fatty, and once in the cavern of your mouth the fat instantly melts away in…
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…
Black Forest Cake from Stuttgart Blackforest Boutique S-Café. Don’t let the innocuous synthetic cherry at the top fool you – the hardcore soaked cherries were hidden within and so potent I was beside myself with delirious delight. A biscuit crumbly base added some crunchy bite in an otherwise totally soft cake.…