The UTW (“Under Ten Words”): Classic luxury hotel with enjoyable club benefits feels like home. The must-dos (if any): Breakfast and cocktail hour at the Club InterContinental Lounge (club member benefits). Intro: Over the long weekend in early September 2017, after becoming a newly-minted InterContinental Ambassador (a wonderful investment that pays for itself by…
Maguro Akami from Nobu-ya at Fortune Centre, one of the essential izakaya experiences around. You are paying not for a plate of sashimi but for a Bukit Merah (that’s “red hill”, folks – Social Studies Consultant) of clean, baby buttock-tender tuna flesh, and at the baffling price of $10 it…
– lemon sablé breton, yuzu curd, mandarin orange reduction and yuzu sorbet. Suitably refreshing – save for the bodaciously wince-inducing sorbet (which probably had too much whisky the night before as it was served particularly soft instead of in its usual quenelle form), the other sour elements were restrained in…
Whole Sea Bass “Au Plat” from Ash & Elm at Intercontinental Singapore – whole sea bass from the deep-sea farm of Mauritius with fennel confit, cherry tomato confit, taggiasca olives, lemon and beurre blanc sauce. A buttery gloss stridently dominates the proceedings, while elsewhere conquering the fish is quite the…
Black Forest Cake from Stuttgart Blackforest Boutique S-Café. Don’t let the innocuous synthetic cherry at the top fool you – the hardcore soaked cherries were hidden within and so potent I was beside myself with delirious delight. A biscuit crumbly base added some crunchy bite in an otherwise totally soft cake.…