Roasted cod and soba noodle salad from Populus – roasted cod loin, soba noodles, marinated mushrooms, lightly pickled vegetables, broad beans, lime and sesame dressing. Whilst the saltily-skinned cod may have gone a tad overboard in its vain efforts to achieve a Kim Kardashian-esque bronze, the soba noodles were intriguingly…
“Ginger Beer” Pork Collar from Populus – charred ginger beer marinated pork collar, roasted butternut squash with spicy yogurt, honey coriander salsa verde, apple slaw. Essentially rugged, army Encik-esque meat coated in sour veggie camo. In manner of sin-cos-tan matters, quadratic equations and the like, the dish truly perplexes. 3.3/5…
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,…