Lemon & White Chocolate Sundae from Populus – Tahitian vanilla ice cream, fresh lemon jelly, white chocolate sauce, meringue kisses, white chocolate crumb, cornflake crumble, citron mascarpone. Essentially a rotund love child of Hokkaido milk and McDonalds’ soft serve. The citrus elements lend a wince-inducingly zesty zing to the proceedings,…
Grilled Squid and 8 Colours Set (thick slices of Mangalitsa pork belly in wine, original, ginseng, garlic, herb, curry, miso paste and red pepper paste flavours) from 8 Korean BBQ. The 8 Colours Set experience could be compared to your first time teaching a class of eight precocious and gifted…
Balukoo Wantons from Black Nut – buah keluak flesh, finely diced prawn, spring onion, ginger, garlic and homemade sambal chilli dip. The ever so slightly bitter, earthy and dry wantons craved for the black nuts which arrogantly stayed safely in their sac, but the shrimpy, spicy Nasi Lemak-esque chilli made…
Ayam Bakar Burger from Black Nut – juicy chicken leg spiced with lemongrass, blue ginger, lime leaves, assam, black pepper, and glazed with sweet kecap manis and homemade rumpah spice paste. A grand pity the supernova of Asian flavours did not penetrate to the core of the resultantly dry patty,…
Nori Tsukudani Spaghettini with King Prawn from Wild Rocket. Essentially an unexpectedly tantalising outcome of a torrid affair between aquatic flora and a passionate feisty fruit, with the firm pasta being the wavy vessel for the back and forth drama to play out. Elsewhere, the royal crustacean had a suitably…
Cherry Pop from Non Entrée Desserts – cherry with Bols Kirsch & mascarpone form, earl grey jelly, chocolate soil, marinated cherry compote, flourless sponge and spicy cherry sorbet. Essentially a riotous sour carnival in your mouth – the wince-inducing and spicy cherry sorbet projects thousands of microscopic peppery pins onto…
Salmon red rice and baby octopus donburi from Wild Rocket. Essentially an immensely gratifying bowl of umami wonder – the warm, pork floss-esque, prawny, salty and surprisingly sweet rice is marvellous mouth fodder in its own right, but then the slithery, soft seared salmon comes and delivers a killer tail…
The Soursop from Two Bakers – soursop cheesecake, Malibu infused vanilla cake, meringue, soursop gel, sable crumble and desiccated coconut. The soursop cheesecake ball must have done extensive meditation and ate a lot of almond/sesame dual paste at Hong Kong dessert cafes as it manages to achieve a harmonious yin-yang…
Smoked duck cappelleti with baby spinach, dark brown chicken & thyme tea from Open Farm Community. Essentially soft baby hat dumplings stuffed with juicy, mushy meat, sitting pretty in a fragrant jacuzzi pool of ayurvedic massage-enthusiastic Brand’s Essence of Chicken consomme. 3.7/5 This was a hosted meal, courtesy of Open…