Somen with lap cheong oil and tiger prawn at Kite. Essentially cold noodles positively drenched in an alluringly spicy curry powder-satay sauce hybrid, with ickle bouncy prawn curls for accompanying crunch. 4/5 Kite 53 Craig Road Singapore 089691
Baked prawns in claypot from Rochor Thai – fresh prawns and vermicelli, peppercorns, garlic and coriander baked in a claypot. An appetite-arousing aroma assaults your senses once the cover is removed, but once your saliva forms and expectations peak the fragrance quickly peters out. What’s left is essentially levelled-up and…
Mitzo special barbecued pork. The skin of this amazing piggylicious delight must have been separated at birth from crème brûlée. I doodled a diagram in my notes whilst eating this – it was a circle labelled “middle” within a box with area outside the circle shaded and labelled “melts in…
Char-grilled Ribeye Hor Fun from Gardenasia. Essentially your standard hor fun dish, done competently and given a classy Western upgrade with enjoyably chewy ribeye. A generous sprinkling of black pepper flavours the beef rather well and the little black runts somehow find their way onto every spoonful of gravy or…
Spicy Mee from The Refinery – pulled pork, homemade sambal, pork balls, sesame seeds, pork lard, signature 72 degree onsen tamago. Essentially hipster Myojo Ramen Char Mee 100, with bak chor mee pork balls and sweet but viciously mauled Narcissus spiced pork cubes. The relatively vacuous noodles required vigorous mixing – otherwise…
Lala Bee Hoon from Spicy Thai-Thai Cafe. The very wet bee hoon strides in with an unabashedly fiesty and peppery sass, taking absolutely no prisoners and instantly triggering ooohs of ardourous appreciation and approval from my dining companions. But for the fact that prawns beat clams any day, this would…
King Prawns on Vermicelli Claypot with bacon and white pepper from The Prawn Star. Essentially an indulgent, regal morning economic beehoon but with king prawns instead of the usual oily and unhealthy suspects, and my favourite item from my meal at The Prawn Star. While the bacon played hide and…
Soup Teochew kway teow mee from Ah Hor Teochew Kway Teow Mee, situated in a coffeeshop on Verdun Road near City Square Mall. The main dish itself is comforting and good on its own but damn, that chilli is so unbelievably magical it was likely to have been concocted by…
Fish soup noodles from Ka Soh (Swee Kee Fishhead Noodle House). The fish stock boasts to have high levels of protein, calcium and collagen. It supposedly includes no milk, its whiteness stemming from all the boiled fish bone goodness. All I know is that the stock tastes wondrously comforting and rich,…