The Conquistador from Rise & Grind Coffee Co. – chorizo, poached eggs on toast, truffled leek & mushroom ragout, romesco sauce and arugula. Ignore the emotional blackmail from the conqueror and his (unintentional?) sad-face – he is probably just pouting that you will ruin the visually arresting aesthetic once you dig…
Customised Bacon Eggs Breakfast from Tête-à-Tête Café with added sausages and mushrooms. The bacon eggs were quite delicious, fusing together harmoniously such that with each bite, you taste both the egg (yolk) and that familiar, reassuring bacon fragrance and saltiness. You can tell with one bite of both the pork sausage…
Aglio olio with prawns, mushrooms and squid from The Wicked Garlic. These are my comments from my virgin experience a year ago: “Amazingly wok hei prawns, and wickedly value for money. It’s the PSLE top student of aglio olios seriously, why it doesn’t have its own Brands Essence of Chicken…
Mushroom aglio olio from Oberstrasse. The amount and nauseating pungency of the cheese (probably enough to spook even the most undiscerning and itchy-mouthed mouse) must immediately be dealt with, and I did – off it went into a wad of tissue paper. The pasta was well and evenly seasoned, being…
Duck Confit – duck confit, spinach, berry compote, mushroom fricassee and roasted potato. I can say quite definitively that this is the best duck confit I’ve ever had. The duck skin is salty and wonderfully fatty, and once in the cavern of your mouth the fat instantly melts away in…
Big Plate – two scrambled eggs, brioche toast, bacon, mushrooms and bratwurst. The toast was fluffy but rather burnt, the eggs nicely buttery and the mushrooms happily moist. I was undecided about the bacon – it may not have been my preferred crispy type, but it was ultimately competently fatty,…
Mushroom Aglio Olio with Prawns. Flawlessly executed – the optimal level and combination of al dente, oil and chilli padi spiciness is happily achieved. Check out the big, fat and crunchy prawns, which soak up the flavour of the spicy oil so marvelously that I actually cut them all into…
Prawn and bacon aglio olio with mushrooms and chilli padi. If this pasta were human it’d be a feisty, earthy and well-bosomed farm girl. The aglio olio is aggressively fragrant, smelling smokily porky with a strong hint of mushroom. The bacon here isn’t the crispy sort but of the chewy…
My Aromatic Prawn Noodle, dry with Tom Yum base and added mushrooms. Essentially springy instant noodle meets prawn cracker fries, annoyingly-shelled prawns and shrimpy chilli paste in a dimly lit Thai massage parlour. I piled on the green and red sliced chilli, mixed the chilli paste real nice with the…