The Mannuvasanai Menu from Muthu’s Curry (Race Course Road), which pays homage to Chettinad in South India. Spiciness exists on different levels across the dishes, from non-existent (Vazhathandu Kootu or banana shoots, supposedly good for your internal pee bags) to the cumulative slow burn (Vendaikkai and Mochai Mandi or white kidney beans and…
Bacon & Egg Cup from OMB. One (or two) of these satisfying, greasy bacon goblets, which would explode in your mouth like a cherry bomb of egg love, should sufficiently fulfil your week’s brunch needs. 3.5/5 This was a hosted meal, courtesy of OMB. OMB (Oh My Bacon) 7 Dunlop…
Prawn ravioli from CreatureS – creamy prawn filling with ginger-garlic-thyme butter sauce. It’s all about the butter sauce and pine nuts here, with the controversial wonton skin and prawn filling almost feeling like mere means/transportation devices for the above-mentioned to travel into my waiting mouth. Serve these to me with…
Roast duck and pear from CreatureS – Chinese roast duck and Chinese pear tossed in butterhead lettuce in plum sauce dressing, served with keropok. The keropok inclusion felt rather queer, like drawing little stubby legs on a portrait of an anaconda, but the salad and dressing was refreshingly pleasant and…
Seafood risotto from CreatureS. The tomato-heavy seafood broth was comfortably light and the rice had sufficient bite, but the medley of seafood probably took a delayed flight. 3.7/5 CreatureS 120 Desker Road Singapore 209639
Miso cod and ulam onigiri at CreatureS – oven-roasted miso cod with belachan assam herb rice balls. The fleshy, wet miso cod executed its duties with poised reliability whilst the shrimpy, flossy balls smelled like they had spent the afternoon rolling around at 328 Katong. 3.7/5 CreatureS 120 Desker Road…
Zhu Burger from CreatureS – pork patty marinated with XO Cognac, topped with cheese, caramelised onions, mesclun salad and tomato, and served with crispy fries. Save for the titular Zhu, which tastes like moist, fatty and crunchy ngoh hiang filling, the dish whizzes by like an SBS bus on the…