Garlic steamed bamboo clam from Diamond Kitchen – Scottish bamboo clam, glass noodles, enoki mushrooms, water chestnuts, Hong Kong steamed sauce, and crispy fried garlic. While there were disappointingly no kilts in sight, the clams were soft and chewy with only the faintest of that distinctive and sometimes divisive clammy…
Mango bingsu. The mangoes were fresh and sweet, whilst the mango ice cream was delightful, with dried sticky mango bits within. The shaved milk melted with more haste than the 6.30pm Raffles Place crowd into MRT trains and thus it would be inaccurate to regard this as a bingsu in…
La Camibi from Mad About Sucre – Corsica almonds creme, Algeria hazelnut crunch, Madagascar vanilla mousse, almond sponge cake topped with candied hazelnuts. Essentially an ice cream dream. The mousse has the texture of a light, classy ice cream, the sponge was lighter than a fairy’s wings, while the hazelnut…
Luna de Miel (Moon of the Honey) from Mad About Sucre – French spring honey mousse, blood orange and caviar, savore sponge, and short pastry. While the initial vertical fork dive delivered a seemingly singular blood orange message, samplings of the various individual components revealed their respective charms – the…
Tom Yum Seafood Pasta from Rise & Grind Coffee Co. – squid, fish, shrimp, creamy tom yum sauce, nori. I have had overrated interpretations of this dish elsewhere which left me cold, but here my breath (and all sensation in the lips) were taken away rapidly. The creamy tom yum…
Bang Bang Prawn Pasta from The Prawn Star – warm cappellini, mayonnaise, chilli and lime. Like the spiritual Thai sister of the Fried Meesua with Kimchi Purée from Gastrosmiths. The oily strands of sweet and spicy capellini are so slurpsome and full of flavour, they steal the spotlight from the…
Sriracha Caramel Popcorn from The Prawn Star. Delectably sweet, yet gives a devilishly spicy sting to the lips. Majorly addictive. 4.1/5 [This was a hosted meal, courtesy of The Prawn Star.] The Prawn Star 21 Duxton Hill Singapore 089604
“Apple of My Eye” gourmet cheesecake, a Mother’s Day special item from online patisserie Cat & the Fiddle. Essentially an apple pie which randomly fell from the clouds and conveniently plopped onto a cheesecake cushion with a digestive biscuit base. The apple chunks were not of the gooey variety but were rambunctious…
Lover’s Set from Gobi Desserts – toast served with orange-pear, red and white dragonfruit fruit enzyme jams, and pineapple and red dragonfruit fruit enzyme shots. Essentially breakfast for grandfathers and grandmothers who are degenerate drunks. Whilst the white dragonfruit jam does not betray any overt signs of delinquency, the other elements…