Ton Shabu Set from Tonkichi – blanched, thin sliced pork loin with sesame sauce and ponzu sauce. Essentially a shabu shabu experience sans the heat and steam, with citrus-tinged, super-soft and highly absorbent 1-ply pork sponges which soak up the refreshing combination of sesame and ponzu sauces perfectly. 4/5 This…
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…
Roast Pork Aglio Olio from Old Boys Gallery. What you get if one of those glamorously-blinged, big-permed aunties chopping meats behind the hanging carcasses and greasy partition decides to marry an angmoh chef – the roast pork (sio bak) is sweet, fatty and lean all at once with each piece…
Flaming Hot Tonkotsu Ramen from Kanshoku Ramen with added ajitama egg and corn. Essentially Korean ramyun noodles which have undergone a Japanese stylistic makeover and a decidedly non-Japanese incendiary flavour blast. Flamethirsty folks from all levels of gutsy on the safety spectrum will enjoy this – the lily-livered slow-sippers will…
TBB savoury croissants from Tiong Bahru Bakery – Jumping Fish (smoked salmon with spinach and ricotta), Running Egg (molten ramen egg with bonito and chilli flakes), Rolling Dumpling (pork and chives topped with pickled ginger, black vinegar dressing and chives), and Flying Pig (artisanal onion jam with spicy pork sausage…
Zhu Burger from CreatureS – pork patty marinated with XO Cognac, topped with cheese, caramelised onions, mesclun salad and tomato, and served with crispy fries. Save for the titular Zhu, which tastes like moist, fatty and crunchy ngoh hiang filling, the dish whizzes by like an SBS bus on the…
Huevos Benedictos from Super Loco – poached eggs, toasted muffin, pork carnitas, chipotle hollandaise, and pickled onion. The pork carnitas was tasty, spicy and refreshingly not diced pork cubes-esque as similar pork products can be, while the chipotle hollandaise was manageably light. The poached eggs, however, had yolks that can…
Spicy Mee from The Refinery – pulled pork, homemade sambal, pork balls, sesame seeds, pork lard, signature 72 degree onsen tamago. Essentially hipster Myojo Ramen Char Mee 100, with bak chor mee pork balls and sweet but viciously mauled Narcissus spiced pork cubes. The relatively vacuous noodles required vigorous mixing – otherwise…
Waffle breakfast – waffle with pork sausage, bacon, scrambled eggs & maple syrup. Despite the waffles looking as if they were fairly shagged and limp after a hard day of grading papers, CCA supervision and other teacherly endeavours, the moist and doughy quadrants were surprisingly fragrant and sweet, with a…