Chendol and Pineapple Tart Ice Cream with Waffle. If I were a teacher and the two balls were my pupils, the gula melaka ice cream gets a solid B for its faithful (albeit slavish) re-creation of the real deal, pandan jelly noodles and atap chee inclusion and all. However, the…
Secret Thai Chilli Chicken and Goddess Chicken. At the soft launch of The Betterfield, a cafe-bistro concept that serves coffee and cafe fare. I preferred the Secret Thai Chilli Chicken – the sauce is thick, limey, spicy and sweet, and coats the chicken very nicely. 3.8/5 The Goddess Chicken is…
Boba Milk & Egg shaved ice. Essentially Koi’s caramel milk tea (70% sugar) after somebody left it in the freezer to cool for too long. 3.5/5 YiLi PaoPao Ice 181 Orchard Road #B2-05 Orchard Central Singapore 238896
Açorda de Bacalhau – bread “porridge” with cod, extra virgin olive oil, fish stock and coriander. Tastes like comforting rice porridge, but with random soft bread crust bits and the occasional whiff of fermentation which tease that you aren’t eating rice. The cod was fresh and chewy, but this Portuguese…
Salmon Scramble – smoked salmon, scrambled eggs, salmon roe, toasted multigrain bread. Who knew dry multigrain bread could taste so good when toasted to a crisp? The eggs were nicely fluffy and the salmon elements enjoyably salty, but the serving size could probably feed one quarter of a boy undergoing…
Roast duck in red curry with pineapple. The curry was decently rich and I loved the crunch factor from the vegetables thrown in the mix, although methinks the roast duck probably played a bit too much basketball under the February sun. 3.5/5 [Tasting courtesy of ParaThai.] ParaThai 11 Tanjong Katong…
Chocolate banana waffle – chocolate waffle, caramelized banana, vanilla bean ice cream, salted caramel sauce and nutella truffle powder. Essentially a chocolate pound cake (!) with vanilla ice cream and sweet, gooey goreng pisang. The shift from fluffy chiffon to dense cake felt like a Lionhead Rabbit transforming into a…
Sliced winged beans tossed with dried pounded prawns in a sour and sweet sambal belachan dressing, topped with “kerisik” of dry fried grated coconut and sliced shallots. Essentially grassy, crunchy shuriken cucumber slices invigorated by a chewy, sweet and slightly spicy floss-esque mush. 3.7/5 Violet Oon’s Kitchen 881 Bukit Timah…
Black Pepper Prawn Pasta – spaghetti tossed in piquant black pepper with fresh prawns. The pasta was well-tossed, with the gritty and sweet pepper coating each strand very evenly. However, the prawns seemed to be awkward guests at their own party, all dry with annoyingly hard shells, and you would…