Lemon & White Chocolate Sundae from Populus – Tahitian vanilla ice cream, fresh lemon jelly, white chocolate sauce, meringue kisses, white chocolate crumb, cornflake crumble, citron mascarpone. Essentially a rotund love child of Hokkaido milk and McDonalds’ soft serve. The citrus elements lend a wince-inducingly zesty zing to the proceedings,…
Grilled Squid and 8 Colours Set (thick slices of Mangalitsa pork belly in wine, original, ginseng, garlic, herb, curry, miso paste and red pepper paste flavours) from 8 Korean BBQ. The 8 Colours Set experience could be compared to your first time teaching a class of eight precocious and gifted…
Balukoo Wantons from Black Nut – buah keluak flesh, finely diced prawn, spring onion, ginger, garlic and homemade sambal chilli dip. The ever so slightly bitter, earthy and dry wantons craved for the black nuts which arrogantly stayed safely in their sac, but the shrimpy, spicy Nasi Lemak-esque chilli made…
Ayam Bakar Burger from Black Nut – juicy chicken leg spiced with lemongrass, blue ginger, lime leaves, assam, black pepper, and glazed with sweet kecap manis and homemade rumpah spice paste. A grand pity the supernova of Asian flavours did not penetrate to the core of the resultantly dry patty,…
The Soursop from Two Bakers – soursop cheesecake, Malibu infused vanilla cake, meringue, soursop gel, sable crumble and desiccated coconut. The soursop cheesecake ball must have done extensive meditation and ate a lot of almond/sesame dual paste at Hong Kong dessert cafes as it manages to achieve a harmonious yin-yang…
Smoked duck cappelleti with baby spinach, dark brown chicken & thyme tea from Open Farm Community. Essentially soft baby hat dumplings stuffed with juicy, mushy meat, sitting pretty in a fragrant jacuzzi pool of ayurvedic massage-enthusiastic Brand’s Essence of Chicken consomme. 3.7/5 This was a hosted meal, courtesy of Open…
Chilled avocado, ginger soup, poached yabbies & fresh radish from Open Farm Community. The yabbies had the supple flesh of a Hot Flow Yoga enthusiast, whilst the chilled soup managed to be simultaneously creamy and refreshingly light. 3.9/5 This was a hosted meal, courtesy of Open Farm Community. Open Farm Community…
Roast red snapper with tom yum bouillabaisse from Wild Rocket. The seafood elements are but a foil for the tangy bouillabaisse, which wears judicious spritzes of Soi No. 55 or similar and titillates with her herbal sensuality…but before you know it, she will quietly slink off into the night, leaving…
Spanner chilli crab linguini with onsen egg from Wild Rocket. Essentially firm, full-bodied locks of linguini dressed in a wickedly spicy, gooily eggy and voluminously thick chilli crab sauce. Elsewhere, only some crabs turned up, but you know how these elite toolbox school kids are. 3.8/5 Wild Rocket 10A Upper…