Seafood tagliatelle from Arbite – handmade squid ink tagliatelle, prawns, squid, salmon, mussels, chilli and spring onions in a tomato sauce. The tagliatelle tasted like they may have taken one year’s worth of BodyCombat classes, but thankfully the tomato sauce, all wet and brothy, made the pasta easier and much…
Aglio olio with prawns, mushrooms and squid from The Wicked Garlic. These are my comments from my virgin experience a year ago: “Amazingly wok hei prawns, and wickedly value for money. It’s the PSLE top student of aglio olios seriously, why it doesn’t have its own Brands Essence of Chicken…
Prawn risotto from The Betterfield. Essentially what happens after a very gregarious Mui Fan (烩饭) who grew up on Sixth Avenue goes travelling in northern Italy and takes a ride on a Venetian gondola. The risotto rice grains are moist and distinctive and nicely absorb the prawn essence, which results…
Sambal Prawns with Petai. Unbelievably crunchy and fat, and the sambal was amazingly shrimpy and chewy to such a degree that it almost felt like a featured mini ingredient than a mere paste. The petai wasn’t particularly stinko – perhaps thanks to the charms of the sambal, its controversy was…
Mushroom Aglio Olio with Prawns. Flawlessly executed – the optimal level and combination of al dente, oil and chilli padi spiciness is happily achieved. Check out the big, fat and crunchy prawns, which soak up the flavour of the spicy oil so marvelously that I actually cut them all into…
Black Pepper Prawn Pasta – spaghetti tossed in piquant black pepper with fresh prawns. The pasta was well-tossed, with the gritty and sweet pepper coating each strand very evenly. However, the prawns seemed to be awkward guests at their own party, all dry with annoyingly hard shells, and you would…
Prawn and bacon aglio olio with mushrooms and chilli padi. If this pasta were human it’d be a feisty, earthy and well-bosomed farm girl. The aglio olio is aggressively fragrant, smelling smokily porky with a strong hint of mushroom. The bacon here isn’t the crispy sort but of the chewy…
Spicy prawn guksu set, with deep fried spicy drumstick. So it was a cold windy day and I stepped into this Korean joint, expecting the noodles to be all annyeonghaseyo and I got bloody prawn mee with chilli paste. Warmed me up good, though. 3.6/5 Guksu Noodle House 3 Temasek…
My Aromatic Prawn Noodle, dry with Tom Yum base and added mushrooms. Essentially springy instant noodle meets prawn cracker fries, annoyingly-shelled prawns and shrimpy chilli paste in a dimly lit Thai massage parlour. I piled on the green and red sliced chilli, mixed the chilli paste real nice with the…