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…
Black Truffle Edamame from Kanshoku Ramen. An experience in itself – you access the little soybeans by sucking on them pods, which are so immersed in truffle flavour that the normally tasteless soybeans themselves become unescapably tasty by virtue of your mouth becoming an intermediary truffle oiling agent. Somebody should…
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…
Mad Mussels from The Fickle Mussel – spicy mussels slapped with lemongrass aroma, garlic and chilli, and touted with a cut of toasted sourdough bread. The mussels are good…in the sense that they are absorbent conduits between your mouth and the swimming pool they are lounging in, which is a…
Crab aglio olio from Canopy Garden Bar – crab, linguine, garlic, fresh herbs, chilli, olive oil, coriander, spring onion. One of my favourite crab pasta dishes around – the generous quantity of happily salty crab bits provide substantial bite and the linguine is firm, springy, and slathered with a fragrant…
Mango Shibuya Toast from Tuk Tuk Cha. The memorable air-fried golden toast (which I had earlier described as having the delectably crumbling crispiness of a century-embalmed Egyptian mummy) was gloriously buttery and elsewhere, the fleshy mango chunks and thick mango ice cream – easily able to pass off as the actual…
Curry chicken bee hoon mee from Ah Heng Curry Chicken Bee Hoon Mee. When I was doing my pupillage at a law firm in Fortune Centre, this legendary curry mee was a guilty indulgence I’d revisit over and over again for that chilli so intensely and deeply smoky, chimneys wave…
Exotic – kangaroo, trompette, dark chocolate. The kangaroo meat had a most exotic (errr, as the name already implies…? – Editor) taste, like a fantastic ménage à trois of pork, duck and fish meat all rolled into one gamey, roasty package. The butternut squash and dark chocolate were on hand…