“W” (watermelon, hazelnut dacquoise, vanilla chantilly cream, rose cream) from Two Bakers. A bite of the crunchy watermelon releases gratifying hydration, whilst elsewhere the sticky, nutty hazelnut dacquoise pouts as it bats its eyelashes flirtatiously at your jaw. 3.9/5 Two Bakers 88 Horne Road Singapore 209083
Maguro Akami from Nobu-ya at Fortune Centre, one of the essential izakaya experiences around. You are paying not for a plate of sashimi but for a Bukit Merah (that’s “red hill”, folks – Social Studies Consultant) of clean, baby buttock-tender tuna flesh, and at the baffling price of $10 it…
Tomyum Seafood Pasta (creamy tomyum sauce pasta with prawn & mussel) from Fuel Plus’ refreshed menu. The drought-stricken tomyum sauce played it as safe as a quadruple-layered Huggies diaper, leaving the fettuccine’s starchiness vulnerably exposed. Elsewhere, the wonderfully crunchy and succulent prawns were woefully overqualified for this position. 3.3/5 Fuel…
Earl grey ice cream with candied kabocha from Gastrosmiths at Katong I12. The earl grey ice cream maintains a suitably classy and conservative demeanour and the softly crunchy pumpkin reveals an au naturel sweetness, while elsewhere the crumble and nuts ensure each mouthful brings forth pleasurable toothly amusement. 3.8/5 Gastrosmiths…
Murphy’s Platter (fish fingers, calamari tempura and crispy wings, with either salted egg or lemon mayo dip) from Murphy’s, a few stones’ throw away from Ang Mo Kio MRT. ⠀⠀ The fish fingers were revelatory, with the white and tender arrowtooth flesh possessing an exuberant sweetness and a thin skin…
Japanese mackerel (fennel, quinoa, mussels, chorizo) from the lunch menu of the recently Michelin-minted Rhubarb Le Restaurant at Duxton Hill. A delectably oily affair all round – the softly chewy, juicy mackerel was slicker than a Prudential insurance agent, whilst elsewhere the fried rice-esque and lobster foam-crowned quinoa and chorizo…
A juicy, beefy new offering from McDonald’s…or the Macaron Burger (a large chocolate macaron with a chocolate ganache ‘patty’, apricot ‘cheese’ and white chocolate ‘lettuce’) from Antoinette’s newly-launched Fetish Chocolat menu, an indulgent chocolate extravaganza which lasts from now until end October? Antoinette (Penhas Road) 30 Penhas Road Singapore 208188
Salted egg yolk pasta from the criminally underrated The Rawr Kitchen. The curry leaf-fragrant pasta wears its richly thick and creamy salted egg coat with gangster swagger as it rakishly toes without ever crossing the line of cloying pastiness, playing like a carbonara with chilli crab’s thick and eggy texturality.…
San Zar (haw flake) and White Rabbit (milk candy) sorbet/gelato on waffle from Non Entrée Desserts. The sour, berry-esque haw flake flavour lingers on your tongue like perfume on your clothes after an Abercrombie & Fitch outlet visit, and the gooey and insistently milky White Rabbit gelato possesses an almost…