Otak Egg – Muar Otak and egg sunny side up on thick toast. The Otak and bread have intertwined body and soul, but the egg seems to be the third party playing mistress. Otak was delightfully spicy! 3.75/5 Le Halo 4 Jalan Bukit Ho Swee #01-162 Singapore 162004
Signature sliced grouper fillet with pine mushroom and black fungus in rice wine broth. The naughtiness of the rice wine struck quickly before sneakily vanishing into the darkness, leaving no traces behind in what is still a rather happy-tasting soup. 3.75/5 Joyden Canton Kitchen 4 Hillview Rise #02-21 Hillv2 Singapore…
Gnome Dome – choux pastry with Horlicks and hazelnut crème pâtissière with white chocolate. Probably needed a warm hug before being served, as it was rather frosty. Horlicks may have been on medical leave that day, as I tasted only Kinder Bueno manning operations. 3.5/5 Out Of The Cake Box…
Golden custard lava cake. Like sisters who have their own strengths individually but when placed together, the chocolate flavour steals the limelight aggressively and competitively like a Bai Ling, leaving its younger salted egg yolk custard sibling in a wallflower-esque position. 3.5/5 Five & Dime 297 River Valley Road Singapore…
Blossom waffle with passionfruit and “U Can’t Guess This!” flavoured ice cream. The passionfruit assaults explosively with tingling spikes of sour, with seed shrapnel for additional impact – loved it. I won’t spoil the secret behind “U Can’t Guess This!” (hint: it’s a fruit), but this particular ice cream as…
Black forest pudding. What this literally smoking warm chocolate dessert needed was a good night at “da club”, drunken dancing and some shots, and it would have been perfection. 3.75/5 PS.Cafe 28B Harding Road Singapore 249549
Le Char Kuey (dough fritter) with dry laksa filling. Despite being paraded outside its comfort zone of a bowl of gravy for people to gawk at in all its nude glory, the laksa remained winningly slurpsome and wet. However, I’m not sure what the dough fritter, crispy outside and soft…
Seafood aglio olio – seasonal seafood, ikura and ponzu. Methinks the chef doth salteth too much, but the smoky sexiness of the seafood does some major redemption. 3.5/5 Gastrosmiths 103 Beach Road Tan Quee Lan Street Singapore 189704
Fig and bacon sabayon – candied bacon and fig compote, with fresh berries and a scoop of vanilla ice cream, resting on a bed of champagne sabayon. The sabayon is reminiscent of the custard filling in breads, only slightly delinquent – it probably smokes in the girls’ toilet and plays…