Chocolate Belgian waffles with Choc-A-Baby, Balsamic Strawberry and Milk & Honey flavoured gelato from Milk and Honey Gelato. The crispy waffles had intensely gooey brownie-esque flesh, while separately the dark chocolate was very dark and rich, the strawberry was coquettishly sour and the signature Milk & Honey was like white…
larvitar x rubbisheatrubbishgrow. A good dish at La Ventana (fun fact: owner Carles Gaig also owns the one Michelin-starred Restaurant Gaig in Barcelona) would be the Carabinero Paella ($34) – carnaroli rice with calamari and carabinero prawn. While I was busy snapping a picture of the paella, Salaryman was busy salivating…
Ridiculoos Spectaculoos Waffle from Spatula – single scoop of chocolate chip ice cream, Speculoos spread, drizzle of maple syrup, biscuit crumbs & a wafer shard. Essentially everything you love about Llaollao’s cookie sauce, only doubled, tripled, quadrupled, quintupled. Bring friends, as this peanut butter-esque Cookie Monster needs a team to tame.…
Sake blossom – Japanese sake, St. Germain elderflower, lemon juice, homemade rose sato, nigori sake. Starts off all casual Japanese woman sultry, but go deeper and the drink segues into the familiar passions of sweet bandung. Yes, as in the Mr Teh Tarik at Ang Mo Kio Avenue 5 type of…
Gambas picantes from My Little Tapas Bar – fresh shrimp cooked in a dish of boiling olive oil with garlic, chili and smoked paprika. Instead of being all Olive Oyl, the slightly spicy stock was positively eye-popping (what’s next, a spinach and sailor reference? – Editor) with its prawn richness,…
A Dessert Platter from The Royal Mail Restaurant & Bar. Essentially the chef’s selection of four desserts from the menu in a deconstructed plated dessert format, which means you get to try manageable samplings of their Peanut Butter Jelly and Eton Mess. It’s an everything-and-the-kitchen-sink affair — matcha sponge! caramelised…
Fretu Bendi from Quentin’s – fried okra with mustard seed, curry leaves, fried chillies and turmeric. Essentially economic rice (菜饭) okra as interpreted by bomohs trained in the darkest of arts. This was the most unassuming item from my meal at Quentin’s, yet the one I will most definitely be…
462 Laksa Prawn Pasta from Tolido’s Espresso Nook. Instantly one of my favourite alternative laksa interpretations. Fragrant and spicy, the pasta is utterly and evenly drenched with thick laksa gravy and the gravy somehow magically lasts until the final mouthful. Bits of salty dried shrimps add an marvelously addictive crunch…
Lala Bee Hoon from Spicy Thai-Thai Cafe. The very wet bee hoon strides in with an unabashedly fiesty and peppery sass, taking absolutely no prisoners and instantly triggering ooohs of ardourous appreciation and approval from my dining companions. But for the fact that prawns beat clams any day, this would…