Sauced Padi Garlic Chicken from Oven & Fried Chicken. Essentially sweet Korean fried chicken caught in flagrante with Two Chef Eating Place’s famous drunken cockles. Garlic dominates the conversation, whilst elsewhere those equipped with Mario-esque levels of evasion can actually cleanly avoid the vicious scarlet traps without any consequence. 4.2/5…
Alla Marinara from Pasta Fresca – prawns, squid and mussels sautéed in white wine and garlic and with added chilli padi. The springy pasta extends a warm, hearty welcome with its unbridled seafood generosity, and the requested spiciness is capable of being pleasurably relentless in its back end viciousness. 4/5…
Anchovy rice balls from Masizzim Singapore. Essentially a feisty chilli padi-ikan bilis rice experience, with the mucky fun of sculpting and playing with balls – you get served a big bowlful of rice with gloves to do as you please – absolutely on the house. 3.8/5 This was a hosted…
Tiger prawn aglio olio from Richmond Station. The rather stinko sprinkled cheese started the experience on a decidedly low-brow note, but fortunately after some tossing pepper and chilli padi were successful in their dual effort to help mask traces of the above-mentioned. Elsewhere, the tiger prawns were happily fat and…
Prawn and bacon aglio olio with mushrooms and chilli padi. If this pasta were human it’d be a feisty, earthy and well-bosomed farm girl. The aglio olio is aggressively fragrant, smelling smokily porky with a strong hint of mushroom. The bacon here isn’t the crispy sort but of the chewy…
Ichiban Jyu – salmon sashimi, sesame oil and chilli padi on a bed of rice. The amount of oil and chilli used per bowl is probably by way of dice throw in the Ichiban Boshi kitchens, so make a request for separate extra servings of both each time. With the…
Teriyaki Chicken Aglio Olio. The enjoyably sweet teriyaki chicken went surprisingly well with the salty spiciness of the pasta, and I was sufficiently distracted from the fact that chicken is merely the kept woman of aglio olio whilst his prawny soulmate was away for work. I wanted to say that…
Red Tom Yum Soup. Like Willy Wonka’s Three Course Dinner Chewing Gum, this soup morphs from form to form while it swishes in your mouth, all within seconds – it starts off as piquant tomato bisque, then becomes classic spicy tom yum soup, but in the final few seconds it…
Spaghetti Aglio Olio with added Tiger Prawns and Chilli Padi. The pasta normally didn’t come with chilli padi, but they were happy to oblige when I asked for it. The spaghetti was thinner than usual, suitably salty and well lubed for smooth in-mouth gliding while the prawns were well-grilled and…