Espárragos y Gambas a la Plancha from My Little Spanish Place – grilled asparagus and prawns, fried egg and “salsa verde”. Essentially what you get if a European matronly chef decides to marry Chinese tze char and the Western concept of brunch. So simple and basic, yet so satisfying. 3.9/5…
Bibik bouillabaisse with mussels, snapper and prawns from Epicurious. The stew was enormously flavourful with the robust life essence of presumably six hundred and seventy two fishies, with a playful spice feist and just a hint of coconut to give it a curryish tease. 4/5 This item is part of…
Udang chilli garam – salted chilli prawn spaghetti from Epicurious. Despite sharing equal conceptual billing the sweet and spicy paste, all smouldering and sensual in its acupuncturist roleplay with your tongue, carries the pasta dish alone in manner of minister in a GRC while the less scholarly prawns only barely…
Laksa linguine pasta with prawns from The Fickle Mussel. Essentially the now classic French concept’s laksa linguine pasta version 2.0 after some saviour of the souls of great food used Revive, Life Shrooms, Phoenix Down or similar revival item. This is by no means as good as the original – aside from…
Seafood aglio olio from Kins Restaurant – tiger prawns, sea scallop, fresh squid, Japanese konbu and spaghetti with crustacean oil. Immediately one of my favourite aglio olios around, without a smidgen of chilli flake or padi in sight – the sophisticatedly aromatic crustacean oil carries the pasta formidably. (I wonder…
Gamberetto (prawn, mussel, chorizo, tomato sauce, squid ink linguine) from Roots Kitchen & Bar. Rather serviceable and perfunctory. Apart from being as memorable as a secretary’s story told in the elevator about how her mother prefers Hockhua antelope’s horn to other vendors in the Toa Payoh area, the seafood was…
Cacciucco from In ITALY – seafood casserole with lobster, garoupa, prawns, squid, imported mussels, clams, tomatoes and chilli. The broth flavour was essentially clams dancing naked with tomatoes under the moonlight, whilst the assortment of seafood on hand was generous in portion, varied and tasty enough to make me a…
Squid ink spaghetti “alla Singaporeana” from In ITALY – prawns, garlic, extra virgin oil and chilli. Surprisingly generous in its prawn serving and the pasta does what it says on the tin just fine, but the intriguing moniker oversold things – for alla Singaporeana, this could definitely do with some…
Laksa Fisherman’s Pie from Epicurious – prawn, fish, crabmeat, taupok, carrot and zucchini in spicy laksa broth with a puff pastry top. Essentially roti prata served with distilled laksa concentrate, so powerfully flavoured that you must savour it by way of dipping the pastry and only sucking the soak in order…