Grilled curry chicken with romaine lettuce, quinoa, button mushroom, onsen egg and Japanese sesame dressing from the newly-opened The Green Bucket at CT Hub 2 in Lavender. Its appealing below-$10 price tag should give daily slices and rice barters a good run for their money – whilst the curry chicken…
Blueberry Ricotta Cheesecake from Two Bakers. Essentially a living and breathing Kraft cheese slice creature in an amorous bear embrace with dairy-tempering blueberry. 3.7/5 Two Bakers 88 Horne Road Singapore 209083
Pepper crab and chilli crab ice cream (!!) on charcoal waffle from the newly-opened Mingle Mangle. The surprisingly enjoyable charcoal waffle had a crispy armour but was softcore within, whilst elsewhere the pepper crab ice cream had an intriguing chewy texture and a gritty pepperiness, and the mischievous chilli crab…
Tiramisu Kakigori from Sakurazaka. Essentially a zen and harmonious union between a gracefully-perfumed tiramisu with a most spongy-soft bottom and an ice kachang with inner poise who attends ballet lessons and plays the viola. 3.7/5 This was a hosted meal, courtesy of Sakurazaka. Sakurazaka 24 Greenwood Avenue Singapore 289221
Chilled Truffle Angel Hair from Horizon Bistronomy (Alexandra) – chilled truffle angel hair, ikura, golden tobiko, crab meat, chorizo oil. The angel hair was eagerly oily and vinegary, whilst elsewhere the indulgent crab meat displayed a supple voluptuousness and the golden tobiko offered gritty realism to the proceedings. 3.7/5 Horizon…
Beef Steak & Pork Belly Shio Kouji from Ootoya Japanese Restaurant (Singapore). Essentially two Manhunt-esque hunks topless-wrestling energetically in a catwalk battle of who is the juicier, chewier, saltier, orally pleasing stud. In the primarily oceanic landscape in which they showdown, the quality of the earthly creatures surprises. 3.8/5 This…
Stamina Bowl from the newly-opened Workspace Espresso – tamarind chilli sea bass, goji brown rice, miso chilli eggplant, broccoli cauliflower, wakame wood-ear salad, sprouts, seeds. The chilli elements likely suffered burnout from their high-power, glamorously busy CBD existences, while elsewhere the sea bass ate clean and the wakame wood-ear salad…
Wafu Tagliatelle from Mariko’s – mixed mushroom, wafu, bluefin chunks, konbu sauce. The waifish pasta seemed to have slathered salted buttery all over its slithery body before sliding down a smoking chimney to join its thick, crunchy mushroom friends at the other end. 3.9/5 This was a hosted meal, courtesy…
Squid ink scallops risotto from Horizon Bistronomy (Alexandra) – squid ink risotto, crab meat, pan seared scallop, clam meat, caviar and beurre blanc foam. Essentially a creamy, herby appetite whetter that primes your mouth for the chewy, oceanic and colossally umami scallops, an experience greatly indebted to the rudely explosive…