Club Nasi Lemak from The Tiong Bahru Club Singapura – fragrant coconut rice served with chilli sambal accompanied with 2 pieces of Truck Stop Fried Chicken, seafood otah, sunny-side-up egg with fried anchovies and peanuts on the side. Unlike the travesty that was the Hainanese Chicken Rice Balls, this nasi…
Hainanese Chicken Rice Balls from The Tiong Bahru Club Singapura. The dark rage that this $16.80 dish ignites is equivalent to the feeling you get when you realise that obnoxious, Phua Chu Kang mole-above-her-lip, banshee-esque secretary from the other department who once stomped on your shoes while queuing ahead of…
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
Green Chicken Curry from Soi 60 – chargrilled chicken, bamboo shoot, baby eggplant, with added spiciness. Essentially happily fatty, thoroughly marinated and flavoured grilled chicken satay soaking in a creamy, lush and literally verdant green curry (the greens are in the green, if you know what I mean). 4.1/5 Soi…
Maine lobster and chicken pot roast with field mushrooms, fried quail eggs and parsley from The Disgruntled Chef. If crustaceans and fowls haven’t been dating before, they certainly should start exploring the possibilities. The lobster was plump and sweet whilst the well-done chicken had the most happily crispy skin, and…
Singapore chicken rice salad from Epicurious – poached chicken breast, herbs, cucumber, mesclun greens, crisped rice, chilli vinaigrette. Essentially cold white chicken (白斬雞) made lightly spicy, ever so slightly sweet and intriguingly addictive by the refreshing chilli vinaigrette…but outside the window, ginger patiently knocks. 4/5 This was a hosted meal,…
Special Tendon from Ginza Tendon Itsuki – onsen egg, shrimp, chicken and mixed vegetable tempura (shiitake mushroom, pumpkin, corn and long beans) on rice drizzled with a sweet and savoury sauce. The onsen egg provided surprise and amusement and the various tempura elements were lightly battered and suitably pleasurable –…
Fickle Ravioli Green Curry from The Fickle Mussel – chicken spiced and wrapped in ravioli served in green curry. The minced chicken filling had the no-nonsense candour and meatiness of a tattooed chaokeng storeman, remaining safe in its ravioli bunk away from any propaganda and brainwashing from the weak, Indian-tinged green…
Curry chicken bee hoon mee from Ah Heng Curry Chicken Bee Hoon Mee. When I was doing my pupillage at a law firm in Fortune Centre, this legendary curry mee was a guilty indulgence I’d revisit over and over again for that chilli so intensely and deeply smoky, chimneys wave…