Heirloom tomatoes, ricotta, burnt pomelo and yuzu pearl from Rhubarb Le Restaurant’s 3-course lunch menu. Rhubarb Le Restaurant 3 Duxton Hill Singapore 089589
Japanese mackerel (fennel, quinoa, mussels, chorizo) from the lunch menu of the recently Michelin-minted Rhubarb Le Restaurant at Duxton Hill. A delectably oily affair all round – the softly chewy, juicy mackerel was slicker than a Prudential insurance agent, whilst elsewhere the fried rice-esque and lobster foam-crowned quinoa and chorizo…
XYT Ayam Percik from Xiao Ya Tou. Essentially the curry chicken equivalent of watching The Conjuring 2 – you go in wanting reliable scares and then you get one jump scare, and another comes, and another, and before you know it a whopping 134 minutes have elapsed and you’re still…
Seabass with lobster bisque, curry cauliflower puree, dehydrated cauliflower and horse radish pea puree from Dibs. The wonderfully well-cooked seabass had a lightly salted skin, and while the sour pea mush may possibly cause veggie-fearing young children to produce a similar looking substance, the Chinese curry vegetable-esque cauliflower puree was…
Nori squid with sriracha lemon foam and yuzu mayo from Dibs Restaurant Singapore. The outrageously addictive sriracha lemon foam – a droplet of the Pringles BBQ powder-esque elixir delivers a coquettish jab to the tongue – was as aggressive in its entrapment tactics as primary six girls are with their…
Panna cotta from Kite – pink peppercorn, strawberries, coriander & coconut. The peppercorn in the panna cotta is the equivalent of finding a baby hamster while in the restroom – you would be pleased to have seen it and would coo at it a little, but thereafter you would scratch…
Black Spanish pig (medium-rare) with chestnuts, walnuts, apple & plum from Kite. The juicy and intensely salty skin enjoys dual citizenship having German pork knuckle and Chinese char siew parents, and the flesh daringly toes the line between gamey and tender without falling definitively into either category. 3.9/5 Kite 53…
Salmon 42deg with seaweed, apples and sesame from Kite. You would suspect that the salty and uber soft salmon has been sneaking out for secret midnight rendezvous (yes, that’s the plural form – Vocabulary Editor) with its smoked classmate while elsewhere, the gloopy seaweed offered glacial refreshment for the throat…
Somen with lap cheong oil and tiger prawn at Kite. Essentially cold noodles positively drenched in an alluringly spicy curry powder-satay sauce hybrid, with ickle bouncy prawn curls for accompanying crunch. 4/5 Kite 53 Craig Road Singapore 089691