“Pasta X Chicken X Green Curry = ??” from Som Tam – pan-seared pasta with sweet and savoury Thai green curry. Essentially a most scintillating extra-marital jungle romp between instant noodle curry powder, mee rebus and green curry…if you request for it to be more spicy. The picture on the…
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…
Laksa Fisherman’s Pie from Epicurious – prawn, fish, crabmeat, taupok, carrot and zucchini in spicy laksa broth with a puff pastry top. Essentially roti prata served with distilled laksa concentrate, so powerfully flavoured that you must savour it by way of dipping the pastry and only sucking the soak in order…
Roast Pork Aglio Olio from Old Boys Gallery. What you get if one of those glamorously-blinged, big-permed aunties chopping meats behind the hanging carcasses and greasy partition decides to marry an angmoh chef – the roast pork (sio bak) is sweet, fatty and lean all at once with each piece…
Laksa Linguine Pasta from The Fickle Mussel – homemade laksa spice, buttered crayfish and caviar. Essentially the taste of Nissin’s laksa cup noodles…given an injection of sophistication and a smouldering, sweat-inducing upgrade. The crayfish is relegated to recurring guest status here, but who cares when the laksa pasta itself is…
Fickle Ravioli Green Curry from The Fickle Mussel – chicken spiced and wrapped in ravioli served in green curry. The minced chicken filling had the no-nonsense candour and meatiness of a tattooed chaokeng storeman, remaining safe in its ravioli bunk away from any propaganda and brainwashing from the weak, Indian-tinged green…
Tom Yum Seafood Pasta from Collective Brewers – medley of sauteed prawns, mussels and squid with capsicum, mushroom, Thai basil and spaghetti in a creamy Tom Yum sauce. Not my ultimate favourite tom yum seafood pasta just yet – Rise & Grind still holds the throne as of July 2015…
Ma Jie’s Indulgence chilli crab pasta from The Quarters. The chef must have been a former mathematician, distributor or similar as both the sweet and ever so slightly spicy sauce as well as the generous portion of crab chunks are evenly distributed throughout with mathematical precision. 3.7/5 The Quarters 16…
Salted Egg Fries from The Quarters. The salted egg dip is like McDonald’s curry sauce undergone some supernova explosion of an evolution – thick, creamy, spicy, peppery and very, very gao. Control your dosage. 3.9/5 This was a hosted meal, courtesy of The Quarters. The Quarters 16 Enggor Street #01-09…