Seafood risotto from CreatureS. The tomato-heavy seafood broth was comfortably light and the rice had sufficient bite, but the medley of seafood probably took a delayed flight. 3.7/5 CreatureS 120 Desker Road Singapore 209639
Miso cod and ulam onigiri at CreatureS – oven-roasted miso cod with belachan assam herb rice balls. The fleshy, wet miso cod executed its duties with poised reliability whilst the shrimpy, flossy balls smelled like they had spent the afternoon rolling around at 328 Katong. 3.7/5 CreatureS 120 Desker Road…
Zhu Burger from CreatureS – pork patty marinated with XO Cognac, topped with cheese, caramelised onions, mesclun salad and tomato, and served with crispy fries. Save for the titular Zhu, which tastes like moist, fatty and crunchy ngoh hiang filling, the dish whizzes by like an SBS bus on the…
Scallop & Mixed Fish Don from Teppei Syokudo. Essentially your standard value-for-money if slightly too salty Teppei Syokudo Kaisendon but with a few fish chunks substituted for scallop. Not entirely sure scallop wears the marinate as well as her fishly brethren – the porcelain beauty is beautiful just as she…
The Black mille crepe cake from Champs Patisserie – a combination of vanilla, Oreo and chocolate flavours. While a vertical fork-dive reaps an uneasily but largely chocolate experience, the individual layers taste distinct from each other enough to indeed feel like you are having three different cakes. The value! 3.8/5 Champs…
Pancake Soufflé with Peach from Hoshino Coffee Singapore. Whilst the signature pancake souffle was probably made with magical Angora bunny fur, the peaches were unfortunately a tad Del Monte. 3.7/5 P.S. I had a similar item at a Hoshino Coffee outlet in Tokyo and the peach slices used were fresh,…
Gardenasia Mee Goreng Pasta from Gardenasia. Essentially a slightly spicy and richly tomatoed mee goreng, and a dead ringer for the original apart from the noodles here being firm and bouncy instead of limp and nuah as the hawker variety can be. 3.6/5 Gardenasia 240 Neo Tiew Crescent Singapore 718898
Char-grilled Ribeye Hor Fun from Gardenasia. Essentially your standard hor fun dish, done competently and given a classy Western upgrade with enjoyably chewy ribeye. A generous sprinkling of black pepper flavours the beef rather well and the little black runts somehow find their way onto every spoonful of gravy or…
Pigeon from La Ventana Singapore – whole pigeon cooked in two ways (Josper-grilled and confit) and served with truffle mash and sauce made with pigeon bones. The leg confit fared competently, but the pigeon may have sustained a serious chest injury from all the free weights training (due to societal…