Marinated pork loin, celeriac purée, baby carrots and onions with whole grain mustard from 999.99 Five Nines. The pork loin was well-cooked and suitably roasty with the slight toughness of a Signals NSF sergeant whilst elsewhere, the light sauce-tempered and wasabi-esque militant tang of the mustard kept the proceedings lively.…
Violet’s Big Breakfast from Violet Oon Singapore – otak otak, turmeric chicken wing, sambal egg, nasi kuning, and a side of tangy ikan bilis and peanut sambal. Whilst the otak was nicely meaty, the scrambled egg was gloriously fluffy and soft within its seemingly omelette-esque skin and the different sambals…
Otak Toast from Violet Oon Singapore. While the stubborn baguette-esque toast had the moisture of a Thirsty Hippo-guarded closet, the opulent and corpulent otak slab – none of that minced nonsense, you can clearly see fish when you observe the otak’s cross-section – had a remarkably chicken-like tenderness. 3.8/5 Violet…
Full English breakfast with “foot-long” sausage from Claude’s – scrambled eggs, stewed beans, hashbrown, bacon, roasted tomatoes, chunky salsa, warm bread and fresh salad with parsley crumble and truffle butter. Not your typical brunch experience, flavour-wise. The girth of the masculinely spicy, Chinese-esque and well-endowed sausage was ideal for easy…
Grilled Spanish octopus with Jerusalem artichoke, burnt onion and oyster leaf from Esquina. The octopus had a sensual and deeply roasty quality which extended to its very core, and its suction cups will disengage recklessly inside your mouth, offering more artillery for your crunching pleasure. Elsewhere, the burnt onion will…
Pan-fried loin of venison with celeriac puree, baby spinach, pine nuts and cranberry jus from The Lokal. The venison was delectably juicy and well-cooked whilst the sweet celeriac puree, which coats your inner lips jealously and only betrays its green origins at the end of your mouthful, would give a…
Prawn Kadaif from 999.99 Five Nines – tiger prawn wrapped in thin deep fried noodles with red pepper sauce. The sauce was like a writhing baby girl from tomato and chilli parents, whilst elsewhere the noodles shattered loudly and dramatically in your mouth like a chandelier would if a XXL-sized…
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
TNT from Non Entrée Dessert Cafe. There is enough kinetic energy from all the fizziness from the raspberry poprocks and yuzu form to power a small fart, whilst elsewhere the pistachio sponge smells all masculinely nutty, the lychee sorbet and marinated strawberry basil lend a playful sweetness to the proceedings,…