Black Glutinous Coconut Mousse Cake from Bakersfield – steam baked black glutinous sponge, pumpkin creamux, coconut panna cotta, lime sable. While a vertical fork-dive nets you a rather watery coconut experience, patient exploration of the individual layers will reward – you get to better know and understand the cake beyond mere…
Curry Prawn Risotto from The Wicked Garlic. The six prawns had the girth of the ridiculously muscled men that sashay out of the yoga studio/rock climbing wall room next to Brawn & Brains, whilst the risotto and its spicy Indian mystique remind you (in a most fond and complimentary way)…
Ochazuke Konbu Spaghetti from Curious Palette. The equivalent of that “exotic” racially mixed person you met in primary school who did not fit cleanly into that whole CMIO framework and looked really unique and attractive and had a cool accent. The ang moh spaghetti had the strong aroma of Chinese…
Bibik’s Brownie – buah keluak ice cream with brownie. The chocolate brownie had a cookie-esque texture while the earthy buah keluak ice cream kept things legit and real – no purchase of likes/followers, no plagiarism of text and content for its IG posts, no chocolate wannabeism. Just buah keluak, naked…
Chirashi Don from Chotto Matte. One of the instances whereby the picture can do all the talking (uni and ootoro, wave hi). The rice — obscured by the smorgasbord of sashimi — is nicely seasoned so that proceedings don’t get too dry and colourless, and you end the experience feeling…
Edomae Hikarimono Don from Ginza Kuroson – selection of aji, saba and kanpachi sashimi (three varieties of silver-skinned fish) on a bed of rice. If you pardon the seemingly modest portion, this is truly a rice bowl from heaven if you’re a fan of silver-skinned (read: fishy) fish sashimi -…
Kuroson Tempura Don from Ginza Kuroson (Takashimaya) – pumpkin, seaweed, shiso leaf, mushroom, fish, calamari and prawn tempura on a bed of rice. The tempura portion was surprisingly generous and wonderfully varied in type, and the batter always remained on the right side of fried. 4/5 P.S. I don’t normally…
Grilled squid from FYR Cycene Ond Drinc. Massively addictive and flavourful (I don’t know what those salty, crispy toppings are but they disintegrated in my mouth far too quickly), and so deeply, deeply smoky that the dish should come with a warning label and a hotline for quitting. 4/5 This…
8 Spices Apple Crumble with Crème Anglaise from Open Farm Community. Deceptively simplistic labelling, but the “crumble” here is a sum of many distinct parts – part warm and lovingly sweet apple chunks, part hard and nutty crunch, and part chao tar and intensely smoky bits which evoke memories of…