Aglio olio – spaghetti with sautéed garlic, chilli and pine nuts, finished with extra virgin olive oil. Nicely wet and oily. Unlike standard chilli padi, the chilli deployed here was of the dried and slightly burnt variety, and the spiciness is transient, disappearing before the iced water touches your lips.…
Tom Yum Fried Rice. The rice was quite wet and sticky, with the grains fusing with each other into clingy lumps and each spoonful being a big lump of small lumps. I would have preferred if the rice grains remained independent and loose, like comfortable underwear. Fortunately, the glue that…
Waffle with Lavender and Earl Grey ice cream. The Lavender was essentially a Paddle Pop/Mint hybrid who just came back from the loo that had Lavender air freshener, while the Earl Grey put up a suitably valiant fight against the mighty Sunday Folks soft serve monster. The waffle was sweet…
Coco Citron – coconut mousse, lemon curd and coconut sablee tart, with crushed sugar diamonds. So light, I’m floating on clouds. But then some of the crushed sugar diamonds crackled and popped loudly in my mouth and I was so startled, I fell all the way down. 3.7/5 Mad About…
Chirashi. Apart from the variety they offer in terms of sea catch – you get singular pieces of many types of sashimi instead of multiple slices of the same few things – what I adore about Sugisawa’s Chirashi is their inclusion of denbu (sweet semi-dried fish flakes) which tastes like…
Valentine’s Fruit shaved ice with yam topping. Essentially the love child of kiwi and green apple in sorbet-esque form, and delightfully refreshing. The intriguingly named Valentine’s Fruit 情人果 has the more mundane English name Sapodilla, but I doubt people are gonna flock to this newly-opened Taiwan shaved ice joint and…
Red Tom Yum Soup. Like Willy Wonka’s Three Course Dinner Chewing Gum, this soup morphs from form to form while it swishes in your mouth, all within seconds – it starts off as piquant tomato bisque, then becomes classic spicy tom yum soup, but in the final few seconds it…
Chicken aglio olio – linguine tossed with olive oil, garlic and fresh red chilli. Like the bespectacled geek with the decent face that you firmly believe has the potential to be the sort of stuff salivated over and reblogged on Tumblr…provided he went to the gym. The chicken was nicely…
Murphy’s Fish and Chips – English batter-fried arrowfish, chips, lemon and tartar sauce with Murphy’s special non-oily batter. The fish skin is wonderfully crispy, going “crack crack crunch” in your mouth and with none of that nonsensical soggy crap you often get with trashier equivalents at coffee shops. This was…