The Mannuvasanai Menu from Muthu’s Curry (Race Course Road), which pays homage to Chettinad in South India. Spiciness exists on different levels across the dishes, from non-existent (Vazhathandu Kootu or banana shoots, supposedly good for your internal pee bags) to the cumulative slow burn (Vendaikkai and Mochai Mandi or white kidney beans and…
Bubur Cha Cha Crème Brûlée from STREET 50 Restaurant and Bar. Essentially what you get if bubur cha cha wasn’t thick and gooey in a bowl but instead vigorously beaten, whisked and boiled into a lightly starchy cream, and then buried alive under a crackly caramelized sugar bed weighed down…
Baked blinis from FYR Cycene Ond Drinc – blinis (thin pancake made with yeasted butter) with grilled salmon, egg, Avruga caviar and grated Bottarga. The blini tasted like a interesting, savoury cross between soft dough and butter cake, while elsewhere the roe appeared to have undergone cellular fusion and the…
Caramelised Mango with Textures of Coconut from Open Farm Community. Generally faultless, apart from how everything seems somehow (over)familiar and then you look at the $17 price tag and go hmmm. 3.7/5 Open Farm Community 130E Minden Road Singapore 248819
Squid ink tagliatelle with “inferno” sauce, calamari, asparagus and chilli padi from Open Farm Community. The spiciness of the nicely springy pasta was a slow burn and lingered without ever being interfering, and I preferred the salty and addictive fried calamari over the more traditional naked version. Interestingly as I…
Bacon & Egg Cup from OMB. One (or two) of these satisfying, greasy bacon goblets, which would explode in your mouth like a cherry bomb of egg love, should sufficiently fulfil your week’s brunch needs. 3.5/5 This was a hosted meal, courtesy of OMB. OMB (Oh My Bacon) 7 Dunlop…
The Lokal lobster roll from The Lokal – slipper lobster tails, gherkin, coleslaw & lemon mayonnaise. A little too much bread for my liking, but the lobster was present and friendly at this party instead of being all standoffish and only sociable with people whom it can manipulate and exploit.…
Prawn ravioli from CreatureS – creamy prawn filling with ginger-garlic-thyme butter sauce. It’s all about the butter sauce and pine nuts here, with the controversial wonton skin and prawn filling almost feeling like mere means/transportation devices for the above-mentioned to travel into my waiting mouth. Serve these to me with…
Roast duck and pear from CreatureS – Chinese roast duck and Chinese pear tossed in butterhead lettuce in plum sauce dressing, served with keropok. The keropok inclusion felt rather queer, like drawing little stubby legs on a portrait of an anaconda, but the salad and dressing was refreshingly pleasant and…