Roasted cod and soba noodle salad from Populus – roasted cod loin, soba noodles, marinated mushrooms, lightly pickled vegetables, broad beans, lime and sesame dressing. Whilst the saltily-skinned cod may have gone a tad overboard in its vain efforts to achieve a Kim Kardashian-esque bronze, the soba noodles were intriguingly…
Prawn & Hae Bi Hiam Pasta from Redpan – tagliatelle tossed with housemade spicy shrimp paste, sakura ebi and sautéed prawns. The hae bi hiam aroma at play is irresistible, while elsewhere the introverted sakura ebi is overshadowed by the busyness of the proceedings and is best savoured directly on…
The Ultimate (Buttermilk Pancake) from La Ristrettos – salted caramel sauce, bananas, pancetta. Essentially the happy McDonald’s hotcakes you had as a kid but now all grown up, with luscious chestnut locks and donning a sleek café apron. The salted caramel sauce would probably make you reminisce for plastic-boxed butter…
Ujikintoki Green Tea Kakigori from Sakurazaka. The bitter, milky green tea ice wore its Tsumori Chisato dress with a refined dignity and poise, while elsewhere even the luxuriously chewy shiratama tasted like it shops at the Mandarin Gallery and high-teas at the Ritz Carlton. 3.9/5 This was a hosted meal,…
Seafood Aglio Olio from Once Upon A Thyme’s new outlet at Clarke Quay The Central – sautéed prawns, fish and squid tossed with spaghetti. The herby, insurance salesman-slick pasta defies its takeaway box origins and is triumphantly better than what its almost rudely offensive $8 price point would suggest. 3.8/5…
Apple Crumble from South Union Park – butterscotch, yogurt, vanilla ice cream. The salty, buttery crumble would evoke fond, nostalgic memories of childhood noshing of Danish butter cookies, the very plump and sweet apple possesses a heady, enthusiastic sweetness and the stringy butterscotch has a pontianak-esque clinginess. 3.9/5 South Union…
Duck confit pasta with tagliatelle, sauteed spinach and hazelnut cream from South Union Park near Kembangan MRT. The meepok-esque homemade tagliatelle had a rustic, earnest firmness, whilst elsewhere the duck was appetisingly salty and the citrusy zest and nuts would elicit an intrigued huh from your lips. 3.7/5 South Union…
Mini Choux Platter from Ollella – Matcha Azuki, Dark Chocolate, Apple Cinnamon, Tiramisu, Raspberry, Vanilla, Lemon Meringue. Generally appealing if you select flavours which reveal the choux’s texturality with minimal distraction. Whilst the crumbly Apple Cinnamon was positively pregnant with sweet apple chunks and the appealingly aromatic Tiramisu had a…
Crab Broth Ramen with Rich Soup from Keisuke Kani King. The chashu slices had the stale tiredness of a Kebun Baru Primary School boy after TAF club training, while the broth was a more plebeian, bespectacled version of the superiorly intense and oceanic lobster broth elsewhere. 3.5/5 Keisuke Kani King…