Duck & Waffle from 20F Specialty Coffeehouse – duck confit, buttermilk waffle, strawberry compote, mixed berries sorbet. Fairly intriguing – when all components come together in one mouthful (and you should definitely try it once with the fatty duck skin included) you get tender duck meat and a buttery, slightly…
Pulled pork flatbread from 20F Specialty Coffeehouse – pulled pork, flatbread, apple slaw, chipotle mayo, nachos, guacamole. The flatbread had a sturdy resilience, but elsewhere the gloopy shenanigans and revelry of spicy flavours – from the phantom peppery spice in the pulled pork marinade that leaves a tell-tale love bite…
Seafood Cioppino from Two Tall Trees – mussels, fish, squid, prawns & special herbs in a tomato broth. Comforting, humble fare, with the tomato broth possessing the gentle touch of a nurturing grey-bunned granny with chopsticks in her hair and wearing grey motif overalls. 3.5/5 Two Tall Trees 14B Kensington…
Crispy pumpkin, yam and sweet potato strips from Paradise Teochew Restaurant. Essentially what you get if ham chim peng (Chinese deep fried bread), muah chee and sweet potato had a rambunctiously greasy, chewy romp on country club hay. 3.7/5 This was a hosted meal, courtesy of Paradise Teochew Restaurant. Paradise Teochew…
Creamy Cookies Pleasure Bingsu from Icebox Cafe. Imagine gravel consists of Oreo cookie crumbs and roughly crushed ice – this bingsu is a slip road off Sime Road. 3.6/5 Icebox Cafe Singapore 89 Rangoon Road Singapore 218375
Nonya Chendol Waffle from Shrove Tuesday – azuki red beans, green jello and Nonya chendol gelato. The glazed and slightly sour waffle felt like a paean to slightly burnt toast, being crispy to the point of knife strikes plate with a clang, whilst elsewhere the rich gelato was expertly conservative…
Berry Ricotta Hotcake from Curious Palette – vanilla ice cream, fresh seasonal berries, pumpkin seeds and sunflower seeds. Essentially a gargantuan-sized McDonald’s Hotcake with five times the thickness, and a fluffiness that’s more Border Collie and less Dachshund. Diminishing marginal returns sets in rather quickly, though. 3.7/5 Curious Palette 64…
Spicy Chicken Stew (Spice Level 1 of 4) at Masizzim Singapore. When you taste the stew on its own, powdery ashes float lazily in the wind and land ever so gently and quietly on your tongue, and you will dismiss these innocuous-seeming embers, but seconds later they register with white-hot…
Hot smoked salmon, potatoes and concasse of tomatoes from the tearoom savouries menu at Mad About Sucre. The warm salmon slab masterfully redefines your IKEA-stemmed understanding of how smoked salmon should taste and feel, while elsewhere the hand-mashed potatoes surrender yieldingly in buttery earnestness. 3.9/5 (It would be remiss of…