Ayam Bakar Burger from Black Nut – juicy chicken leg spiced with lemongrass, blue ginger, lime leaves, assam, black pepper, and glazed with sweet kecap manis and homemade rumpah spice paste. A grand pity the supernova of Asian flavours did not penetrate to the core of the resultantly dry patty,…
Pandan Chicken Burger from Collective Brewers – 48-hour chicken marinated with fresh pandan and spice on soft toasted sesame burger bun and served with fries. The very exotic-looking pandan chicken, which looks like an intimidating love child of Street Fighter’s Blanka and The Hulk, was an aromatic and intriguing mixture of sweet, tender and roasty, while elsewhere the fries were delightfully addictive, coated with the kind of wondrous powder you get all over Taiwanese fried chicken. 3.8/5
Brewers’ Pulled Pork from Collective Brewers – slow-cooked pork shoulder marinated with our coffee spiced dry rub, BBQ sauce infused with our cold brew concentrate and caramelised onions, on sesame toasted buns. The coffee elements may have been on a coffee break (groans ahoy – Editor) so it was mainly…
Satay Burger from The Quarters – spiced and marinated chicken thigh between rice patties, served with peanut sauce. The rice patties intrigued with its orh jian (oyster pancake)-esque crisp, while the well-marinated satay chicken and the accompanying sweet and notably nutty peanut sauce deliver the goods with the efficiency of…
Zhu Burger from CreatureS – pork patty marinated with XO Cognac, topped with cheese, caramelised onions, mesclun salad and tomato, and served with crispy fries. Save for the titular Zhu, which tastes like moist, fatty and crunchy ngoh hiang filling, the dish whizzes by like an SBS bus on the…
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…
FOC Hamburguesa de chocolate – white chocolate and vanilla mousse with sesame seeds, chocolate ganache, strawberry, mango and mint. Madame Tussaud must have mistook her lunchbox for her toolbox. This baby is so pretty and delicate that it probably should go on my desk rather than down my oesophagus but…..ooops.…