Le Char Kuey (dough fritter) with dry laksa filling. Despite being paraded outside its comfort zone of a bowl of gravy for people to gawk at in all its nude glory, the laksa remained winningly slurpsome and wet. However, I’m not sure what the dough fritter, crispy outside and soft…
Spicy tuna tartare – sambal belachan oil, calamansi, furikake, and wonton skins. Once the egg is broken and mixed with the tuna, it essentially becomes marinated tuna sashimi, which is a bit spicy, sour, sweet all at once. 4/5 Pidgin 7 Dempsey Road #01-04 Singapore 249671
Duck confit on a bed of red cabbage with lychee gastrique and duck fat potatoes. Essentially sweet and sour pork, but that day the pigs had trotted away. The lychee gastrique, sweet and slightly tart, immediately restored all my HP and was consumed in its entirety, glam be damned. 4/5…
Tiger prawn wonton capellini with lobster oil, chorizo iberico, and fried tiger prawn wontons. Essentially Chinese five spice (五香) bee hoon as interpreted by a Mediterranean chef who married a Singaporean heartland girl. 3.75/5 Pidgin 7 Dempsey Road #01-04 Singapore 249671
Foie gras on a tau pok pillow with rojak sauce, Sarawak pineapple, jicama, hazelnut and almond. Essentially rojak as interpreted by a posh bird hater. 4/5 Pidgin 7 Dempsey Road #01-04 Singapore 249671
Atlantic cod fried meesua with kimchi purée, mirin and scallions. The noodles were a revelation – very wet, slightly spicy, and almost designed for appreciative slurping. I could just have the meesua and be majorly contented. Fish was pretty standard, and slightly salty. 4/5 Gastrosmiths 103 Beach Road Tan Quee…