Jumbo Prawns and Smoked Pancetta from &SONS. Essentially sweet and mildly oinky jumbo prawns which possess a certain home-cooked charm, the only difference being that they taste like they were prepared using Sixth Avenue oils. 3.7/5 &Sons (SONS Bacaro) 20 Cross Street #01-19 China Square Central Singapore 048422
Thai Milk Tea & Earl Grey Waffle from Les Patisseries. The earl grey waffle confidently lived up to its titular promise, but it quickly ceded attention to the Thai Milk Tea ice cream, which had more flag-waving rahrahness than VJC students during inter-school water polo matches. Elsewhere, the macaron stared…
Deconstructed lemon tart with fried shallot (!) ice cream from Plonk. The exhilaratingly tart lemon curd had a texture that’s best described as Malay kueh meets pudding, whilst elsewhere the fried shallots required careful portioning to ensure the entirety of the largely vanilla ice cream got the necessary fried fragrance…
Swicy Hot Chick from Black Nut – sweet and spicy gochujang chilli wings. Essentially chicken wings coated in a sticky, carrot cake chilli-esque sauce that will cheekily (chickily?) find its way all over your mouth. 3.6/5 Black Nut 2 Emerald Hill Singapore 229287
Orange Cinnamon French Toast from 20F Specialty Coffeehouse – orange cinnamon, french toast, bacon, mixed berries, maple mascarpone. Wisps of aromatic orange peels lurked within the happily eggy toast, whilst elsewhere the bacon gets a silver star sticker for doing good in crackling crispiness class. 3.8/5 20F Specialty Coffeehouse 20…
Classic French toast from Shen & Co. – thick egg toasts, cinnamon apple compote, chopped nuts, whipped cream, honey and caramel sauce. Essentially how French toast would be done if your doting, generous aunt made brekkie – the delicious buttery egginess provides a familiar homemade comfort, whilst the cinnamon apple…
Drunken Babe from Non Entrée Desserts – walnut brownie, whisky-infused milk chocolate whip, smoky bacon crisps on chocolate paper, caramel popcorn and raspberry sorbet. The proceedings felt a tad everything and the kitchen sink-esque, and the flavours at play were heavy-handed. The very spank-deserving whip wore its whisky breath with…
Black Spanish pig (medium-rare) with chestnuts, walnuts, apple & plum from Kite. The juicy and intensely salty skin enjoys dual citizenship having German pork knuckle and Chinese char siew parents, and the flesh daringly toes the line between gamey and tender without falling definitively into either category. 3.9/5 Kite 53…
Sticky Spicy Wings from 20F Specialty Coffeehouse. Essentially chicks born out of black pepper and Korean gochujang wedlock. 3.7/5 20F Specialty Coffeehouse 20 Foch Road Singapore 209261