Hot smoked salmon, potatoes and concasse of tomatoes from the tearoom savouries menu at Mad About Sucre. The warm salmon slab masterfully redefines your IKEA-stemmed understanding of how smoked salmon should taste and feel, while elsewhere the hand-mashed potatoes surrender yieldingly in buttery earnestness. 3.9/5 (It would be remiss of…
Lemon & White Chocolate Sundae from Populus – Tahitian vanilla ice cream, fresh lemon jelly, white chocolate sauce, meringue kisses, white chocolate crumb, cornflake crumble, citron mascarpone. Essentially a rotund love child of Hokkaido milk and McDonalds’ soft serve. The citrus elements lend a wince-inducingly zesty zing to the proceedings,…
Chirashi Don from Chotto Matte. One of the instances whereby the picture can do all the talking (uni and ootoro, wave hi). The rice — obscured by the smorgasbord of sashimi — is nicely seasoned so that proceedings don’t get too dry and colourless, and you end the experience feeling…
The Lokal lobster roll from The Lokal – slipper lobster tails, gherkin, coleslaw & lemon mayonnaise. A little too much bread for my liking, but the lobster was present and friendly at this party instead of being all standoffish and only sociable with people whom it can manipulate and exploit.…
Hummingbird from Mad About Sucre – African pecan nut, plantain, pineapple, lemon, lavender and honey. Despite possessing neither the SMU-esque professionally proficient attractiveness of the Luna De Miel nor the old school Hollywood glamour of the San Domingue, the Hummingbird proved itself to be, like an industrious and scholarly civil servant, competent…
Buah Keluak from Candlenut – buah keluak ice cream made with 80% Valhrona chocolate on a bed of salted caramel, chocolate crumble and chilli specks, topped with warm milk chocolate espuma. One of the most stunning local desserts I’ve tried this year. The buah keluak ice cream was itself an…
Coconut charcoal-grilled wild-caught red snapper with smoked sea salt and dried shrimp sambal from Candlenut. The meaty fish had a rather chicken satay-esque texture, whilst the gritty and remarkably shrimpy sambal was sweet yet aggressively spicy at the same time. 3.9/5 Candlenut 331 New Bridge Road #01-03 Dorsett Residences Singapore…
Yeye’s Kari from Candlenut – a white coconut curry of prawns with green chilli padi, green peppercorns, kaffir lime leaf and fried shallots. Essentially green curry prawns given a creamy, indulgent mega-upgrade of coconut. 3.8/5 Candlenut 331 New Bridge Road #01-03 Dorsett Residences Singapore 088764
Sake blossom – Japanese sake, St. Germain elderflower, lemon juice, homemade rose sato, nigori sake. Starts off all casual Japanese woman sultry, but go deeper and the drink segues into the familiar passions of sweet bandung. Yes, as in the Mr Teh Tarik at Ang Mo Kio Avenue 5 type of…