Lover’s Set from Gobi Desserts – toast served with orange-pear, red and white dragonfruit fruit enzyme jams, and pineapple and red dragonfruit fruit enzyme shots. Essentially breakfast for grandfathers and grandmothers who are degenerate drunks. Whilst the white dragonfruit jam does not betray any overt signs of delinquency, the other elements…
Seafood Stew from The Lokal – red snapper, venus clams, prawns, squid, fregola sarda and toasted sourdough. Essentially how it would taste if a bajillion clams were strapped to life essence extraction machines and all their flavour distilled into a small pool on your plate. The stew itself was supremely…
Signature breads from Crown Bakery & Cafe: (from top) Kaori Ciabatta, Crown Bread and Hainanese Chicken Bread. Kaori Ciabatta: A soft, fluffy bread that tastes like a cross between mee chiam kueh (peanut pancake, without the peanut) and Chinese white honeycomb cake (白糖糕) from coffeeshops. Went delightfully well with sweet…
Grilled octopus, olives and lime, and toasted ciabatta. Visualised the grilled octopus as being a massive suction-cupped tentacle laying on a plate which would dart around playfully as I guide it into my mouth, so I was very surprised to find said tentacle all unceremoniously chopped up. A spoonful tastes…
Truffle-Honey French Toast – vanilla-scented creme fraiche, berries, cinnamon sugar, truffle-honey. The French toast arrives looking all innocent and plaited hair with edible flowers and all, but once you sink your teeth into that eggy, soft, warm and fluffy toast you’d toss your head back and oink at the sky like…
Bun Bun Bomb with espresso gelato. Essentially bitter and fragrant coffee gelato served sealed within a warm, unassuming bun. My main takeaway from this was dang, I sure miss the familiar smell and fluffiness of neighbourhood buns. 3.5/5 33SixtyEight 8 Jalan Batu #01-07 Di Tanjong Rhu Singapore 431008
Açorda de Bacalhau – bread “porridge” with cod, extra virgin olive oil, fish stock and coriander. Tastes like comforting rice porridge, but with random soft bread crust bits and the occasional whiff of fermentation which tease that you aren’t eating rice. The cod was fresh and chewy, but this Portuguese…
Salmon Scramble – smoked salmon, scrambled eggs, salmon roe, toasted multigrain bread. Who knew dry multigrain bread could taste so good when toasted to a crisp? The eggs were nicely fluffy and the salmon elements enjoyably salty, but the serving size could probably feed one quarter of a boy undergoing…
Brioche French Toast with Caramelised Banana, Salted Caramel & Fresh Cream. Undoubtedly one of the best brioche French toast I have ever tried – the brioche is fluffier than an Angora rabbit and decidedly un-breadlike in texture. Paired with the restrained salted caramel and goreng pisang-esque sweet and gooey banana…