The UTW (“Under Ten Words”): Japanese New Zealand beef and lamb restaurant in Marina Bay. The must-orders (if any): Wakanui Spring Lamb Chop, any New Zealand grilled beef option. Summary: Hailing from Tokyo and recently-launched at the new Marina One complex near Downtown MRT, Wakanui Grill Dining is a restaurant which…
The UTW (“Under Ten Words”): Japanese kushiyaki bar with good tempura batter. The must-orders (if any): Special Tempura Don, Kawa Kushiyaki Summary: Situated at The Sail @ Marina Bay, the very misleadingly-named Kimoto Gastro Bar is decidedly traditional in its Japanese kushiyaki bar aspirations, offering an extensive variety of tanned, delectably charred…
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…
Llaomango Sanum from Llaollao (Marina Bay Sands). Essentially the usual llaollao yogurt with an added fragrant tropical aftertaste, whilst elsewhere the sour mango chunks had an unripe manly crunchiness. 3.9/5 The llaomango flavour is only available at the Marina Bay Sands outlet from 1 – 20 February 2016. Llaollao (Marina…
Roasted Pears from Pollen – Chamomile, ginger, granola, yogurt. The warm titular pears were resiliently crunchy and very juicy and moist, adaptively bearing the distinctive spiciness of the ginger cake which, by the way, would cling onto your tongue like an overzealous yet adorable koala. Elsewhere, the yogurt was like…
Strawberry from Pollen Singapore – white peach, basil, bergamot. Rather precocious and precious a creation. The sugary and salty crumble had the rather mystical ability of soaking up the flavour essences of its surroundings, with the dry crumbs somehow harnessing the spirit of the classily restrained basil and the refreshingly…