Chicken Bun from Freehouse – crispy fried boneless chicken thigh, som-tum mango salad with peanuts and sakura ebi, green curry mayo. The colossally-sized chicken trampled, stomped and ravaged its way past all defences like a Juggernaut, instilling so much fear in the villagers that they retreated in haste, all vitality…
Warm Octopus Salad from Kilo – grilled octopus, nam jim, peanut brittle. The nicely charred octopus had a good spring in its step and the shrimpy nam jim had a most sassy and alluring tartness. Elsewhere, the buttery mash served as a marvellous binding agent for bringing together the octopus,…
Gong tng Chinese peanut candy with peanut butter ice cream. Essentially a playful muah chee-esque dessert gone mucking with bittersweet chocolate on a nutty sugar futon. 3.7/5 Wild Rocket 10A Upper Wilkie Road Singapore 228119
Peanut, Coconut, Citrus from Pluck – peanut sponge, coconut sorbet, calamansi gel, mandarin orange. A curious mix of mediocre and flat-tasting cake, refreshing coconut sorbet, peanut butter, sweet mandarin orange and a sharp and wickedly citric gel that would wake you right up, curl your toes and make you wince…
Peanut cake from Tête-à-Tête Café. Essentially mee chiam kueh (peanut pancake), peanut butter and crunchy/gooey muah chee (glutinous rice balls coated with peanut and sugar) having a playful romp in a hyper-delicious ménage à trois. The muah chee bits were to die for, and this was amazing. 4.1/5 P.S. The peanut…
Le Lapin from Antoinette – 66% dark chocolate mousse with peanut feuilletine and caramel peanut, raspberry marmalade, chocolate genoise with rum. I should have went straight for the dark chocolate part and avoided the white altogether, as the latter was like a spurned ex-lover who can’t let go and persistently…