Savoury soya milk panna cotta with shoyu jelly, oriental minced pork and century egg from The East Bureau. Essentially the savoury soyness of salty Taiwanese beancurd (think Yong He Eating House in Geylang) meets the supple softness of Lao Ban beancurd, with lots of random elements sprawled on top for…
Reinterpreted Seafood Tom Yum Goong on ice from The East Bureau. Rich in oceanic flavour but light on feist, this mod glacial treat – with esteemed guests like abalone and salmon sashimi gracing the event – starts the proceedings on a clean, minimalist note. 3.7/5 The East Bureau 6 Raffles…
House Breakfast from Bridge Restaurant & Bar – bratwurst, black forest ham, sauteed mushrooms, cherry vine tomatoes, fork mashed ratte potatoes, toasted brioche, mesclun with truffle honey vinaigrette, and scrambled eggs with added sauteed spinach. Despite what its black-lipsticked, European moodiness may suggest, this was actually a straightforward exercise in…
Pancake Soufflé with Peach from Hoshino Coffee Singapore. Whilst the signature pancake souffle was probably made with magical Angora bunny fur, the peaches were unfortunately a tad Del Monte. 3.7/5 P.S. I had a similar item at a Hoshino Coffee outlet in Tokyo and the peach slices used were fresh,…
Roasted Duck from Four Seasons. The tender duck tasted like it had used a good and expensive moisturiser during its living days while its fatty and saggy skin soaked up the memorably soy-intense and majorly slurpsome sauce wonderfully well. I was surprised by the random stray cabbage slices hidden below,…
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…
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…
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…