Laksa Goreng – stir-fried laksa served with prawn, fish cake, bean sprout and tau pok. Tastes like a dreamy crossover between laksa and Hokkien Mee with its rich, thick laksa gravy and darn good wok hei. 3.8/5 Peranakan Flavours 11 Jalan Klapa The Ardennes Hotel Singapore 199323
Sambal Prawns with Petai. Unbelievably crunchy and fat, and the sambal was amazingly shrimpy and chewy to such a degree that it almost felt like a featured mini ingredient than a mere paste. The petai wasn’t particularly stinko – perhaps thanks to the charms of the sambal, its controversy was…
Bubor Cha Cha Panna Cotta. The equivalent of giving your tongue a luxurious staycation body massage using this cool, fragrant and really smooth cream. You’d be hard pressed to find more pleasant ways to end a meal than this. 4.1/5 Violet Oon’s Kitchen 881 Bukit Timah Road Singapore 279893
Sliced winged beans tossed with dried pounded prawns in a sour and sweet sambal belachan dressing, topped with “kerisik” of dry fried grated coconut and sliced shallots. Essentially grassy, crunchy shuriken cucumber slices invigorated by a chewy, sweet and slightly spicy floss-esque mush. 3.7/5 Violet Oon’s Kitchen 881 Bukit Timah…
Tauhu goreng – fried bean curd on a bed of julienned cucumber and bean sprouts, topped with Vio’s signature peanut sauce. “Vio” plays fairy godmother to the bean sprouts and cucumber who, let’s be honest, have as much individual gustatory swag as the kids from the AVA and Gardening Clubs…
Deep Fried Stingray with Mak Bibik sauce. The stingray tasted very chewy, like a tough chicken who made it to command school during NS. The titular sauce was like the soya sauce you get with steamed fish during Chinese wedding dinners, only slightly saltier and with a badass spiciness from…