Cavaillon Melon (melon panna cotta with French melon) from Tarte by Cheryl Koh. The luscious mini melon balls have a sweet, disarmingly sincere juiciness that never borders on watery, whilst elsewhere the milky panna cotta wobbles with a tightrope walker’s confident steadiness and the softly firm crust surrenders unyieldingly to…
Deep Fried Pork Belly from The Rawr Kitchen. As you chew on each chunk of pork belly, you experience a pleasurable release of a gentle yet full-bodied juicy umami saltiness, with the flabbiest bits being luxuriously melty in your mouth like snowy bingsu on Jalan Malu-Malu asphalt (for trivia enthusiasts,…
Handcrafted Tart with Mandy-Go Sorbet (mandarin orange and mango) from Geometry. The mandarin orange and mango flavours were so passionately enmeshed in their amorous physicality that you can’t tell when either element starts and ends. Elsewhere, the soft, buttery tart possessed a crumbling, cake-like personality, yielding to your knife like…
Sambal Brinjal with Crispy Grago (tiny shrimps) from Baba Wins’ Peranakan Cuisine, which has since relocated to Tiong Bahru Plaza’s rather happening new food area. The soft brinjal served as subservient, Leticia Bongnino-esque canvas cushions for the crispy, salty shrimp infants, which marvellously elevated the proceedings to that of an…
Angel Hair Crabmeat from MoCA Cafe at Loewen. The chilli-kissed, garlicky and slick pasta was so diverting on its own, it could probably launch a successful solo career without its sweet, chewy headlining partner. 4.1/5 MoCA Cafe at Loewen 27A Loewen Road Singapore 248839
Watermelon Lychee sorbet and Strawberry Pocky ice cream with Belgian Waffle from Geometry, located near IKEA Alexandra. The watermelon and lychee flavours are so passionately enmeshed in their amorous physicality that you can’t tell when either element starts and ends while the milky, Meiji-esque strawberry Pocky flavour is true to…
XYT Ayam Percik from Xiao Ya Tou. Essentially the curry chicken equivalent of watching The Conjuring 2 – you go in wanting reliable scares and then you get one jump scare, and another comes, and another, and before you know it a whopping 134 minutes have elapsed and you’re still…
French Foie Gras Linguine Aglio Olio from Mad About Sucre’s new summer menu. The peppery, garlicky and well-oiled linguine was zhup-ly wet with anticipation while elsewhere the delicate, gossamer-skinned cubes of foie gras deflate marvellously in your mouth, revealing their indulgently, lusciously gooey softness within. 4.1/5 Mad About Sucre 27…
Honey Shibuya Toast with Orh Nee and Mango Lime Ice Cream from Double Scoops. The toast had a sturdy fortress protecting its decidedly bready and restrainedly buttered insides, while elsewhere the orh nee was a rich, creamy yam marvel and the mango lime was notably more former than latter, being…