Le Caillou from Mad About Sucre’s new summer cake collection – pecan nut, mandarin orange, Caribbean rum, milk chocolate pecan nut short bread. The slightly grainy pecan orb was nuttily assertive with a Bailey-esque creaminess, and sat its voluptuously buxomly self on a rich, indulgent chocolate rice-y cushion. At its…
Brussel Sprouts from Fu Lin Bar & Kitchen – bacon, extra virgin oil, chives. Whilst the brussels sprouts played it like crunchy and very Chinese-seasoned kailan, the bacon fell short of feeling like such, coming across more like salted pork that lacked confidence and a sense of humour. 3.7/5 Fu…
Ugly Spicy Herb Chicken from What’s This Korean Restaurant. Essentially your commercially competent spicy chicken from Jollibee, KFC or similar, coated in a nutty, chee cheong fun-esque sweet sauce. 3.6/5 What’s This Korean Restaurant 87 Killiney Road Singapore 239533
Meringue Roll from The Plain Jane. Essentially the airy between-the-cake-sheets love child of soft, clayey meringue and chewy marshmallow. 3.8/5 The Plain Jane Blk 211 Serangoon Ave 4 #01-10 Singapore 550211
Molten Wings (3pcs) from the newly-opened The Rawr Kitchen, situated deep in the industrial boondocks within The Splendour at Bukit Batok Crescent. Their Facebook page and the menu itself cautions and disclaims the imminent danger involved in taking on these fiery muthas, and after just two bites I can assure…
Spicy Roast Chicken Stew (2 pax, $48) from What’s This, a new Korean concept along Killiney Road. The stew was sweet and audaciously, scalp-itchingly incendiary, whilst elsewhere the minus-sized chicken parts likely grew up idolising Olsen twin-esque stick figure and petite role models. 3.7/5 What’s This Korean Restaurant 87 Killiney…
Genki Ninja Bowl from Ninja Bowl – yaki unagi, roasted pumpkin, beansprouts, onsen egg, pickled beet. The usually wriggly eel completely lays limp in sweet, luscious surrender here, whilst elsewhere the various crunchy elements each bring something different to the table – the beets bring a veggie wetness, the pumpkin…
The Word. Brekkie from WORD – sausage, choice of eggs, toast, grilled vegetables, bacon. Brunchly satisfying despite being disarmingly earnest, although you can positively hear the clang of spaluta against Mom’s favourite frying pan ringing from a distance. 3.4/5 WORD Cafe 906 Upper Thomson Road Singapore 787110
Buah keluak pasta from Chef Shen Tan’s pop-up at Joan Bowen Cafe – buah keluak cooked with turmeric, blue ginger, garlic and shallots, minced pork and prawns, twice cooked pork belly. Every inch of well-lubricated pasta is positively slathered with the glorious black paste, which is simultaneously nuanced and forthcoming…