Creamy Cookies Pleasure Bingsu from Icebox Cafe. Imagine gravel consists of Oreo cookie crumbs and roughly crushed ice – this bingsu is a slip road off Sime Road. 3.6/5 Icebox Cafe Singapore 89 Rangoon Road Singapore 218375
Cherry Pop from Non Entrée Desserts – cherry with Bols Kirsch & mascarpone form, earl grey jelly, chocolate soil, marinated cherry compote, flourless sponge and spicy cherry sorbet. Essentially a riotous sour carnival in your mouth – the wince-inducing and spicy cherry sorbet projects thousands of microscopic peppery pins onto…
Banana-Bailey from Roots Kitchen & Bar – bread & butter pudding of bananas, walnut, Nutella, and creamy Bailey. The Bailey strides in and pulls you in with its irresistible alcoholic machismo, whilst elsewhere the moist, wet and eggy pudding is two thirds bread and one third goreng pisang. 3.6/5 Roots…
Citron & Passion from Roots Kitchen & Bar – curd of lemon and passion fruit with marshmallow cookie ice cream. The passionfruit element tasted like it was birthed from a Koi/Yakult collaborative crossover, and the ice cream was like a malt/caramel-esque hybrid wrapped by a soft cookie shell. Elsewhere, the…
Amaretto cacao mousse with blackcurrant granita and fresh berries from Roots Kitchen & Bar. Essentially a thick sweet chocolate mousse in mid-embrace with a squirmingly-sour Ribena glacier, with the resulting combination of extreme taste profiles being a clash of Titanic proportions. 3/5 Roots Kitchen & Bar 30 Dickson Road Singapore…
Nagono pork rack served with braised cabbage and grape compote from Roots Kitchen & Bar. While the huge raisins were juicily rummy, the pig in question was probably formerly in a morbidly obese company in BMT and routinely given extras for defiantly playing punk and dodging exercise regimes, being so…
Gamberetto (prawn, mussel, chorizo, tomato sauce, squid ink linguine) from Roots Kitchen & Bar. Rather serviceable and perfunctory. Apart from being as memorable as a secretary’s story told in the elevator about how her mother prefers Hockhua antelope’s horn to other vendors in the Toa Payoh area, the seafood was…
Egg and truffle mousseline topped with caviar from Roots Kitchen & Bar. A shot of initial truffly saltiness, followed by a most egg-white heavy whipped cream experience. 3.9/5 Roots Kitchen & Bar 30 Dickson Road Singapore 209512
The Mannuvasanai Menu from Muthu’s Curry (Race Course Road), which pays homage to Chettinad in South India. Spiciness exists on different levels across the dishes, from non-existent (Vazhathandu Kootu or banana shoots, supposedly good for your internal pee bags) to the cumulative slow burn (Vendaikkai and Mochai Mandi or white kidney beans and…