Panzanella di Aragosta from In ITALY – Canadian lobster with Tuscan bread and tomato salad. Essentially like a zombified Frankenstein lobster salad – it’s cold, it’s wet, it’s clammy, the vegetables squirt cold veggie juice upon bite – but in a surprisingly pleasing way. 3.8/5 <strong>In ITALY</strong> 38 Craig Road Singapore…
Dumplings Italiano from Takumen. Essentially a baby dumpling pizza, with the internal mozzarella cheese having the chewy bounciness of a sausage. 3.6/5 This was a hosted meal, courtesy of Takumen. Takumen 66 Circular Road Singapore 049420
Prawn risotto from The Betterfield. Essentially what happens after a very gregarious Mui Fan (烩饭) who grew up on Sixth Avenue goes travelling in northern Italy and takes a ride on a Venetian gondola. The risotto rice grains are moist and distinctive and nicely absorb the prawn essence, which results…
Spaghetti ai Porcini e Gamberi – spaghetti aglio olio with porcini mushrooms, chilli padi and prawns. Sample this blindfolded and you might just mistake this for good old-fashioned Hokkien Mee. The prawns and mushrooms, which could have reinforced the notion that this is ultimately still aglio olio, didn’t help much…