Traditional Char Kway Teow with large prawns and scallops from Big Street. Essentially the kind of indulgent, Tai Tai-esque variation of local fare you would expect Raffles Hotel or similar to serve, minus the gloss and GST/service charge. For $14.80, you get smoky wok hei goodness that would satiate one’s…
Whole Sea Bass “Au Plat” from Ash & Elm at Intercontinental Singapore – whole sea bass from the deep-sea farm of Mauritius with fennel confit, cherry tomato confit, taggiasca olives, lemon and beurre blanc sauce. A buttery gloss stridently dominates the proceedings, while elsewhere conquering the fish is quite the…
Sweet & Sour Pork on the Rocks from Kai Garden. While the glacial context keeps the coats of the McNugget-esque meat balls fairly chilled, the balls intriguingly maintain both coat crispness and a comforting level of bodily warmth. 3.7/5 This was a hosted meal, courtesy of Kai Garden. Kai Garden…
Fisherman’s Mee Sua from Gastrosmiths – seafood medley, homemade scampi bisque, signature-style mee sua. Essentially the mee siam-esque gustatory equivalent of a breathtakingly beautiful and Dior-perfumed blogger who does pilates, eats walnuts and edamame as midday snacks and replies to everything with vapid three word utterances. Notwithstanding, the scallops had…
Roasted Pork Belly from Aloha Poké. The razor-crisp salty skin had a stickiness that would likely engage your teeth in a frenzied dance while elsewhere, each piece of the tender meat commits harakiri within your mouth and splits into more segments for your chewing pleasure, and the charred pineapple cubes…
Superior Lobster Fortune Pot from Mitzo – braised lobster in Mao Tai wine, abalone, dried scallop, flower mushroom, sea cucumber, deep-fried fish maw, dried oyster, roast duck, cabbage, lotus root, white radish, roasted pork belly, and fa cai. Quite the blockbuster experience. The roasted pork belly’s skin is gloriously crispy…
Cheesy chilli crab pizza from Classified Cafe. Whilst the chilli crab sauce was reasonably persuasive and thick, the soft-shell crab chunks simply lepak and relak one corner with their guitars and the pizza crust came across moody and rather detached. 3.4/5 Classified Cafe 101 Jalan Sultan #01-02 The Sultan Hotel…
Fresh king prawn with linguine in aglio olio sauce from Mad About Sucre. The herby linguine had a playful bounce to its bite and the Spanish fermented garlic offered an unusual and unexpected crunch to the proceedings, whilst the nicely charred and gargantuan king prawn deserved its regal namesake, having…
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…