Seafood aglio olio from Kins Restaurant – tiger prawns, sea scallop, fresh squid, Japanese konbu and spaghetti with crustacean oil. Immediately one of my favourite aglio olios around, without a smidgen of chilli flake or padi in sight – the sophisticatedly aromatic crustacean oil carries the pasta formidably. (I wonder…
Fiery Pan Seared Seabass with Clams from The Fickle Mussel. The seabass was wonderfully cooked and flaked most gracefully, but the peanut sauce-esque sambal was as fiery as an extinguished cigarette thrown into a CBD dustbin nine days ago, and the clams – presumably used to prop the seabass and…
Otah by The Bay at SREEET 50. Whilst the otah does lack a vital gritty spiciness which is present in the best otah, the $8.90 price tag and the absolute avalanche of octopus, clams, garoupa and scallops (!!) justifies its viability as an option for late night munchies. 3.6/5 Want…
Seafood risotto from CreatureS. The tomato-heavy seafood broth was comfortably light and the rice had sufficient bite, but the medley of seafood probably took a delayed flight. 3.7/5 CreatureS 120 Desker Road Singapore 209639
Lala Bee Hoon from Spicy Thai-Thai Cafe. The very wet bee hoon strides in with an unabashedly fiesty and peppery sass, taking absolutely no prisoners and instantly triggering ooohs of ardourous appreciation and approval from my dining companions. But for the fact that prawns beat clams any day, this would…
Garlic steamed bamboo clam from Diamond Kitchen – Scottish bamboo clam, glass noodles, enoki mushrooms, water chestnuts, Hong Kong steamed sauce, and crispy fried garlic. While there were disappointingly no kilts in sight, the clams were soft and chewy with only the faintest of that distinctive and sometimes divisive clammy…