BBQ baby back ribs from Roosevelt’s Diner & Bar. There is nothing babyish about the masculinely tender pork ribs. Striking a happy balance between chewy fat and pig toughness, the meat strips itself off the bones with the eagerness of a BMT recruit. Essential to the experience is the sweet,…
Roasted marinated pork ribs served with homemade traditional sauce from Little Saigon. If you close your eyes, you can fantasize that you have been magically transported to lunchtime at a hawker centre, as the combination of meat and sauce here is a dead ringer for (good) roast duck (!!). 3.2/5 Little…
Kurobuta pork shabu shabu at MAD Bistro – 12 slices of pork loin and 12 slices of pork belly to cook in bonito broth along with silken tofu, Japanese leek, kanji, vegetables, shiitake and enoki mushrooms, and paired with goma, yuzu and chilli sauces. Menu says the shabu shabu feeds…
Spicy pork noodle – glass noodle, pork ball, minced pork meat and vegetables. My favourite from the four Thai boat noodles available, and notably the only one that uses glass over rice noodles. It was sour, mildly spicy and rather refreshing, almost like a salad. I was most intrigued by…
BBQ Pork Neck. If you only order one item from Spicy Thai – Thai Café, let it be this. Smokier than a singlet at Chomp Chomp on Saturday nights at 9PM and more tender (although equally charred) than the flesh of a tanned, buff dragonboater wearing said singlet, with just…
Minced meat noodles. Very much like the ubiquitous Llaollao, the item on offer is yummy and well-executed for what it is, but somewhere out there bitchy pixies are gesticulating and giggling at me like Harajuku schoolgirls for wasting precious moments queueing for something that’s only moderately nice when there are…