Mizu Manjyu (water dumplings) from Hashida Garo – 3 balls of white bean paste and seasonal fruit enclosed in arrowroot jelly, soaked in chilled mint syrup. The dumplings start off tasting like your usual Konnyaku jelly (our seasonal fruit was mango) but sheds its skin and reveals its inner starchy personality…
Foie Gras Macaron from Hashida Garo. Essentially like Little Red Riding Hood’s granny, looking all innocent and come-hither-to-my-(sick)bed with its soft macaron shell and insouciant red dustings before revealing its true grey form and completely taking control of your senses with its heavy-creamed, ferociously savoury fangs. 3.8/5 Hashida Garo 333A…
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…
Over-The-Top Shakes from the rebranded The Benjamins at Forum – (from left) Nutella Banana, Old School Vanilla and Coffee Avocado. The big afro-ed Scary Spice (you need to update your pop culture references – Editor) is all attention-seeking with its bright hair dye, pink accessory and Nicki Minaj-esque get-up but…
Cherry tart from Tarte by Cheryl Koh. Essentially succulent, posh plum-grape hybrids on a tart dressed by Vivienne Westwood. 4/5 Tarte by Cheryl Koh 350 Orchard Road #01-12 Shaw House Singapore 238868
Coffee Tart from Tarte by Cheryl Koh. Like a dark, roasty Kopi Gao fantasy. 3.9/5 Tarte by Cheryl Koh 350 Orchard Road #01-12 Shaw House Singapore 238868
Scallop & Mixed Fish Don from Teppei Syokudo. Essentially your standard value-for-money if slightly too salty Teppei Syokudo Kaisendon but with a few fish chunks substituted for scallop. Not entirely sure scallop wears the marinate as well as her fishly brethren – the porcelain beauty is beautiful just as she…
Seared & Sashimi Salmon Don from Teppei Syokudo. Whilst the marinated sashimi salmon felt reassuringly familiar, the seared salmon unflinchingly remained true to his raw self, despite society and the menu requiring him to be aburi. 3.6/5 Teppei Syokudo 391 Orchard Road #B2 Takashimaya Food Hall, Ngee Ann City Singapore…
Lemon tart from Tarte by Cheryl Koh. Instead of being hard as some can be, the phenomenally sour lemon here is gloriously wet and almost runny, with the signature “chao tar” lemon rind offering some bitter sass to even the sour-sweet dynamics out. 4.1/5 Tarte by Cheryl Koh 350 Orchard…