After You toast with Thai basil and Chocolate Chip ice cream from Som Tam. Compared to Tuk Tuk Cha’s golden crumbliness, the saltily buttery toast here is of a notably softer, gentler ilk and elsewhere, the Thai basil and chocolate chip combination tasted like chippy tropical jungle. 3.9/5 Som Tam…
Ding Dong mango from Ding Dong. Essentially a ménage à trois involving three mango dessert concepts (mango sago pomelo, mango lassi and textures of mango) which ultimately remained cautiously tame and generated less heat than expected. 3.7/5 This was a hosted meal, courtesy of Ding Dong. Ding Dong 23 Ann Siang…
Wagyu beef char siew with pickled papaya and cherry tomato from Ding Dong. The honey-sweet char siew skin was a delight, whilst the soft, fatty core had the tight wobble of the sickest dubstep tune. 3.9/5 This was a hosted meal, courtesy of Ding Dong. Ding Dong 23 Ann Siang…
Cotton-pop waffle with lavender honey and earl grey & fig ice cream from Bunny and Pony. Essentially the perfect funfair/pasar malam-themed date night dessert for lovey dovey couples. The waffles were sweet, soft and crispy on the outside, while the consumption process for the cotton candy may prove to irk…
Pandan pancakes from Tolido’s Espresso Nook – fragrant pandan pancakes topped with vanilla ice cream and drizzled with gula melaka sauce. The sweet, gloriously scented and earnestly fluffy pancakes had the salesmanship of a coconut-shampooed, blazer-donning Isetan cosmetics agent – you aren’t just being sold pancakes but also pandan-induced nostalgia,…
“Ang Moh” Breakfast from Collective Brewers – salad, grilled mushrooms, tomatoes, chicken sausage, bacon, brioche and scrambled eggs. The juicy grilled mushrooms seem to have been partially cross-bred with enoki mushrooms, whilst elsewhere the bacon had a stern crunch, the scrambled eggs had a soft and buttery middle and the…
Pandan Chicken Burger from Collective Brewers – 48-hour chicken marinated with fresh pandan and spice on soft toasted sesame burger bun and served with fries. The very exotic-looking pandan chicken, which looks like an intimidating love child of Street Fighter’s Blanka and The Hulk, was an aromatic and intriguing mixture of sweet, tender and roasty, while elsewhere the fries were delightfully addictive, coated with the kind of wondrous powder you get all over Taiwanese fried chicken. 3.8/5
Braised beef cheek from Open Door Policy – black truffle mash, roasted mushroom, red wine jus. The soft, chewy beef cheek here has the manly essence of a rugged and hard-working farm labourer, whilst elsewhere the truffle mash is as reliable as the Japanese train system and the roasted mushrooms…
Kangaroo fillet from Open Door Policy – roast brussels sprouts, pine nuts and baby onions, sautéed warrigal greens and vinegar jus. Somebody should feed this joey some liang teh (cooling tea) because it must be very heaty given how deeply smoky its flavour is. Each mouthful starts off on a slightly…