Grilled Squid and 8 Colours Set (thick slices of Mangalitsa pork belly in wine, original, ginseng, garlic, herb, curry, miso paste and red pepper paste flavours) from 8 Korean BBQ. The 8 Colours Set experience could be compared to your first time teaching a class of eight precocious and gifted…
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…
Thai Big Breakfast from Soi 60 – 2 organic fried eggs, house made pork sausages, spicy ground pork, roasted tomatoes, toast. What makes this delightfully hearty and generously-portioned Thai breakfast different from your garden variety brunch is the minced pork – which soaks lazily with its baconly siblings in the thick…
Crispy Duck Pancake from Soi 60 – lychee, Thai herbs, black vinegar reduction. The pancake was like a Indian-spiced prata who eats Wheat Baumkuchen and The Daily Cut for lunch, while the juicy lychee and moist duck had the same chemistry with the salty and slightly spicy black sauce as…
Eclairs from Dulcet & Studio – (from top) Ethiopian coffee with nuts, mini exotic (melon and mint), chocolate, and corn. If you buy four eclairs, the pricing is almost buy-3-get-1-free, so naturally we went for it. Off the bat, we noted that the choux pastry had a certain airy coarseness to…
Acai Super Bowl from Super Loco – mango, blueberries, coconut, quinoa, chia, granola and buckwheat. Sixty-six levels of wow. The acai itself was gorgeously gelato-esque in texture, there was just so friggin’ much going on within the massive bowl – from the crispy burnt rice feels of the quinoa to…
Huevos Benedictos from Super Loco – poached eggs, toasted muffin, pork carnitas, chipotle hollandaise, and pickled onion. The pork carnitas was tasty, spicy and refreshingly not diced pork cubes-esque as similar pork products can be, while the chipotle hollandaise was manageably light. The poached eggs, however, had yolks that can…
Royal smoked duck. I wouldn’t particularly refer to the duck as royal or any similar superlative adjective but the smoked duck, its wings spread wide in a graceful final flight before consumption, competently checks all the relevant boxes – crispy skin, nicely greased up and a good mix of fatty…
Stir-fried coral clam with asparagus in “Lao Gan Tie” sauce. Essentially the springiest, boingggggiest and chewiest sotong ever, with asparagus texturally countering the softness with its hard crunchiness, and the signature Royal Pavillion’s old grandfather lending its spicy, aromatic body fragance to the occasion. 4/5 This dish is part of…