Ugly Spicy Herb Chicken from What’s This Korean Restaurant. Essentially your commercially competent spicy chicken from Jollibee, KFC or similar, coated in a nutty, chee cheong fun-esque sweet sauce. 3.6/5 What’s This Korean Restaurant 87 Killiney Road Singapore 239533
Meringue Roll from The Plain Jane. Essentially the airy between-the-cake-sheets love child of soft, clayey meringue and chewy marshmallow. 3.8/5 The Plain Jane Blk 211 Serangoon Ave 4 #01-10 Singapore 550211
Kau Pau Kolo Mee from the newly-opened Broth House opening next to The Hangar along Arab Street – kolo mee with minced thai pork and basil served with poached egg, fried shallots and fried ikan bilis. The kolo mee sprung and bobbed energetically, whilst elsewhere the liberally peppery minced pork…
Karaage Chicken Waffle from Kyushu Pancake Singapore. The bready, hotdog bun-esque waffle displayed the fatigue of a post-row DBS Marina Regatta dragonboater, whilst elsewhere the delectable, tender chicken was more crispy-edged karaage skin than flesh. 3.7/5 Kyushu Pancake Singapore 275 Thomson Road #01-08 Novena Regency Singapore 307645
Spicy Roast Chicken Stew (2 pax, $48) from What’s This, a new Korean concept along Killiney Road. The stew was sweet and audaciously, scalp-itchingly incendiary, whilst elsewhere the minus-sized chicken parts likely grew up idolising Olsen twin-esque stick figure and petite role models. 3.7/5 What’s This Korean Restaurant 87 Killiney…
Steamed Cod stuffed with Mushrooms and Water Chestnuts in Paper Roll from Jiang-Nan Chun. Essentially a light, juice-cleansed and yoga-performing deconstructed Chinese soya glace fish bear-hugged by a chewy, fleshy Vietnamese rice paper roll creature. 3.9/5 This was a hosted meal, courtesy of Jiang-Nan Chun. Jiang-Nan Chun 190 Orchard Boulevard…
Chicken Bun from Freehouse – crispy fried boneless chicken thigh, som-tum mango salad with peanuts and sakura ebi, green curry mayo. The colossally-sized chicken trampled, stomped and ravaged its way past all defences like a Juggernaut, instilling so much fear in the villagers that they retreated in haste, all vitality…
Cereal Frog Legs from Freehouse – American bullfrog legs, karaage ko, ginger flower dressing. The gargantuan superiority of these Americans would startle those who are typically accustomed to Geylang-style Asians. The experience marries the gloriousness of crispy fried chicken with zichar-esque cereal, with the dressing doing well in taming the…
Gooey Banana Donuts “Milo Dinosaur” with Milo crumbs, condensed milk and hazelnuts from Redpan. Despite both being mid-embrace, the piping hot goreng pisang-esque balls maintained a frosty emotional disconnect from the Milo crumbs, with the latter gazing longingly across the room at the delectably roasty hazelnuts as Steps’ “It’s The…