Aglio olio with prawns, mushrooms and squid from The Wicked Garlic. These are my comments from my virgin experience a year ago: “Amazingly wok hei prawns, and wickedly value for money. It’s the PSLE top student of aglio olios seriously, why it doesn’t have its own Brands Essence of Chicken…
Andong JJimdak 안동찜닭 – braised chicken leg, root vegetables, and glass noodles with Andong spicy soy sauce. The chicken may be softer and chewier than a baby’s bottom (does this mean you go around gnawing baby butts? – Editor) but the real star is the gravy, which is comforting like…
Steamed seabass with lime and chilli. The indignant-looking seabass soaked in a homemade broth made using fresh lime juice, garlic, chilli, and spring onions among others. The broth was sharply tangy, enormously flavourful and easily the spiciest thing I had that night – two sips in, I was frankly dumbfounded…
Spicy chicken nanban. A Singapore-exclusive item, and essentially the concept of “dish localization” executed to perfection. The spiciness doesn’t just dwell in the sauce – it looks all creamy and harmless but oh, boy – but also in the chicken’s marinate. Thus, it’s spicy inside out yet restrained enough that…
Red Tom Yum Soup. Like Willy Wonka’s Three Course Dinner Chewing Gum, this soup morphs from form to form while it swishes in your mouth, all within seconds – it starts off as piquant tomato bisque, then becomes classic spicy tom yum soup, but in the final few seconds it…
Garlicpeno pasta – pasta with garlic and Mexican pepper. Essentially meatless, greased up, highly fragrant and fairly tasty oral anaesthesia. 3.7/5 Mad For Garlic 3 Temasek Boulevard #02-300/301 Suntec City Mall Singapore 038983
Ayam penyet. I first discovered Waroeng Penyet when it was a very successful eatery at Marine Parade. When they moved to Joo Chiat, I faithfully followed. I even sought out the Kuala Lumpur branch when I was there! And when the Joo Chiat outlet closed down and the last remaining…
Salivating spicy chicken. The spiciness slowly does a shadow sneak, and before you know it, your lips are numb from the flames but it’s a Fifty Shades of Grey situation, so yeah baby. 4/5 Xi Yan Shaw 1 Scotts Road #03-12/13 Shaw Centre Singapore 228208