Prawn ravioli from CreatureS – creamy prawn filling with ginger-garlic-thyme butter sauce. It’s all about the butter sauce and pine nuts here, with the controversial wonton skin and prawn filling almost feeling like mere means/transportation devices for the above-mentioned to travel into my waiting mouth. Serve these to me with…
Roast duck and pear from CreatureS – Chinese roast duck and Chinese pear tossed in butterhead lettuce in plum sauce dressing, served with keropok. The keropok inclusion felt rather queer, like drawing little stubby legs on a portrait of an anaconda, but the salad and dressing was refreshingly pleasant and…
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
Miso cod and ulam onigiri at CreatureS – oven-roasted miso cod with belachan assam herb rice balls. The fleshy, wet miso cod executed its duties with poised reliability whilst the shrimpy, flossy balls smelled like they had spent the afternoon rolling around at 328 Katong. 3.7/5 CreatureS 120 Desker Road…
Zhu Burger from CreatureS – pork patty marinated with XO Cognac, topped with cheese, caramelised onions, mesclun salad and tomato, and served with crispy fries. Save for the titular Zhu, which tastes like moist, fatty and crunchy ngoh hiang filling, the dish whizzes by like an SBS bus on the…
Kaya waffle with green tea soft serve from The Cold Pantry. Essentially kaya toast that has been waffle-lized. The matcha soft serve was milky with a tinge of bitterness, the fragrant and sweet coconut slime coats both the exterior crevices and inner linings of the waffle, whilst the waffle itself…
Soup Teochew kway teow mee from Ah Hor Teochew Kway Teow Mee, situated in a coffeeshop on Verdun Road near City Square Mall. The main dish itself is comforting and good on its own but damn, that chilli is so unbelievably magical it was likely to have been concocted by…
Thin and crispy waffle topped with matcha soft serve from The Cold Pantry. The matcha soft serve was milky with a tinge of bitterness, the chocolate cookie serves as a competent partition and the waffle delivers what is promised on the label, albeit being faintly reminiscent of waffles of the…
Chocolate root beer flavoured waffle from The Cold Pantry – served with charcoal vanilla ice cream and drizzled with homemade root beer sauce. The rather black-faced vanilla ice cream — perhaps so coloured after experiencing wretched and tragic betrayal in a Wuxia (武侠) novel — was restrained in its milkiness…