Pineapple pound cake with a shot of orange pear fruit enzyme. You get to choose if you want to heat up the pineapple pound cake, and I tried both the warm and normal versions. The truth of the matter is that the cake itself is irrelevant in this exercise – it’s…
Deconstructed black forest, 70% Valrhona dark chocolate mousse, edible hazelnut soil, cherry coulis and caramel ice cream. Like a playful dessert chef’s literal and visual reimagination of black forest. The leaves, flowers and fruits visually recreate the forest setting, the coldness of the bowl is not unlike the freeze of…
Strawberry sorbet served with prosecco. Essentially a valentine to the Rossini cocktail. The strawberry sorbet was sublime, and truly tasted like (icy) fresh puréed strawberries…or that could be what my rather buzzed mind was telling me, as the prosecco was as ruthlessly efficient as a ninja in accomplishing its mission to…
Truffle-Honey French Toast – vanilla-scented creme fraiche, berries, cinnamon sugar, truffle-honey. The French toast arrives looking all innocent and plaited hair with edible flowers and all, but once you sink your teeth into that eggy, soft, warm and fluffy toast you’d toss your head back and oink at the sky like…
Pulled duck burger. Unites the best bits of both the Secret Thai Chilli Chicken and the Duck Confit from The Betterfield, with the other components being perfunctory window dressing. Despite looking here like something disgorged on the roadside after a night of reckless clubbing, I would gladly shovel said questionable…
Assorted macarons. The flavours are as follows (clockwise from top): Sea Salt Gula Melaka, Earl Grey Milk Chocolate, Dark Chocolate, Thai Iced Tea, Rose, Peppermint Milk Chocolate, Strawberry, Yuzu, Salted Caramel, Pistachio. The first thing that struck me was how tantalisingly fragrant they were. Your nose is not required to…
Slow roasted mangalitsa belly – thick cut mangalitsa pork belly, onion, garlic, Dijon mustard, spring onion salad. Like an ex-Eagle from BMT who was posted to Guards and just started gymming, this is half chewy lean torso and half slightly caramelized and burnt fatty bits. Essentially the perfect char siew…
Wanton Mee ($5.50). The famous wanton mee from Kok Kee hasn’t changed one bit since it shifted a short distance to its new home at 27 Foch Road. The char siew and wantons are still mere concubines to the Majesty that is the killer combination of Kok Kee’s secret sauce,…
Chirashi Don – scallop, amberjack, tuna, chopped tuna belly, whelk, salmon, salmon roe and crispy tempura bits on Hokkaido rice. Unlike other commercial variants which have their sashimi grouped by type and forced to huddle and squeeze in a predetermined sitting plan, this chirashi don is so carefully put together,…