Club Nasi Lemak from The Tiong Bahru Club Singapura – fragrant coconut rice served with chilli sambal accompanied with 2 pieces of Truck Stop Fried Chicken, seafood otah, sunny-side-up egg with fried anchovies and peanuts on the side. Unlike the travesty that was the Hainanese Chicken Rice Balls, this nasi…
Charcoal waffle with salted egg yolk sauce and added Famous Amos and Thai Red Tea ice cream from Twenty Grammes. The charcoal waffle itself was soft and bread-like, whilst the gooey salted egg yolk sauce had the grace and refinement of an Orchard Towers performance artiste. Elsewhere, the Famous Amos…
Amaretto cacao mousse with blackcurrant granita and fresh berries from Roots Kitchen & Bar. Essentially a thick sweet chocolate mousse in mid-embrace with a squirmingly-sour Ribena glacier, with the resulting combination of extreme taste profiles being a clash of Titanic proportions. 3/5 Roots Kitchen & Bar 30 Dickson Road Singapore…
Gamberetto (prawn, mussel, chorizo, tomato sauce, squid ink linguine) from Roots Kitchen & Bar. Rather serviceable and perfunctory. Apart from being as memorable as a secretary’s story told in the elevator about how her mother prefers Hockhua antelope’s horn to other vendors in the Toa Payoh area, the seafood was…
Kabocha and cinnamon French cubes from Brew Maison. Despite looking very much like monster blood, the cinnamon-perfumed thick pumpkin gloop is decidedly more weak than freak, barely impacting the taste of the somewhat eggy cubes trapped near the entrance of the bread prison. The inmates beneath, safe from the pumpkin…
Melon Snow Milk Bingsu from Snowman Desserts. Despite the visual distractions offered by the veiny green dress, the Marge Simpson hairdo and the admittedly entertaining juggling of orange balls, inevitable is the realisation that the so-named snow milk ice that lies beneath has as much personality as those fake accounts…
Fiery Pan Seared Seabass with Clams from The Fickle Mussel. The seabass was wonderfully cooked and flaked most gracefully, but the peanut sauce-esque sambal was as fiery as an extinguished cigarette thrown into a CBD dustbin nine days ago, and the clams – presumably used to prop the seabass and…
Fickle Ravioli Green Curry from The Fickle Mussel – chicken spiced and wrapped in ravioli served in green curry. The minced chicken filling had the no-nonsense candour and meatiness of a tattooed chaokeng storeman, remaining safe in its ravioli bunk away from any propaganda and brainwashing from the weak, Indian-tinged green…
Shibuya Toast with Butter Pecan Brittle and Banana Chocolate ice cream, drizzled with peanut butter and white chocolate green tea sauce from Meet & Melt. Expectations-wise, this was akin to ordering carrot cake and then being served a beta-carotene orange stick with leaves intact and frosting on top. The “Shibuya…