Crispy Roast Pork with Chilli Oil Dip from Sum Yi Tai. The salty skin grudgingly crackled thus fulfilling its titular obligation, but the meat itself had the tired toughness of a sixty-three year old roast meat stall auntie, and the Hong Kong cafe-esque chilli and mustard only serve as coarse…
Chicken karaage with citrus mayo from Copper on Stanley. The reliable fried chicken gets instant invigoration from the sriracha-spiked creamy mayo, which gently needles your tongue like a flirtatious acupuncturist. 3.7/5 Copper on Stanley 3 Stanley Street Singapore 068722
Korean Fried Chicken (KFC) from Copper on Stanley. Glazed and honey-sweet with a touch of that ubiquitous Korean spice, this was essentially Korean fried chicken as conceptualised and prepared by a Bedok 85 Fengshan Market BBQ chicken wing stall uncle. 3.8/5 Copper on Stanley 3 Stanley Street Singapore 068722
Duck legs confit, cannellini and cherry tomatoes from &SONS. The cannellini played it like a cross between cheesy pasta and baked beans, whilst the thigh gap-challenged duck (you get both legs) provided greasily familiar entertainment in its KFC-esque boudoir. 3.4/5 &Sons (SONS Bacaro) 20 Cross Street #01-19 China Square Central…
Jumbo Prawns and Smoked Pancetta from &SONS. Essentially sweet and mildly oinky jumbo prawns which possess a certain home-cooked charm, the only difference being that they taste like they were prepared using Sixth Avenue oils. 3.7/5 &Sons (SONS Bacaro) 20 Cross Street #01-19 China Square Central Singapore 048422
Torrija from Catalunya Singapore – soft and sweet warm bread with smoked milk ice cream. Whilst the bread expertly toed the line between comfortably and dangerously sweet, the smoked milk ice cream was the gustatory equivalent of an urgent, uninhibited French kiss (tongues ahoy) with an irresistible femme fatale who…
Mediterranean Red Prawn from Catalunya Singapore, prepared ajillo-style. The oceanic scent of the Mediterranean sea wafts from before the platter arrives, and the positively magical Carabinero prawns are worth every penny – magnificently sweet prawn flesh, lightly enhanced with garlic and oil, with an unbelievable head succulence that demands to…
Avocado roll from Catalunya – fresh shredded lobster wrapped in strips of avocado. The avocado dutifully serves as vest to the oceanically fresh, crunchy and voluptuously Sofia Vergara-esque lobster chunks, while elsewhere the baby fish eggs add to oral texturality (”口感”) without unnecessarily upping the salt quotient. 4/5 This was…
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…