Salmon 42deg with seaweed, apples and sesame from Kite. You would suspect that the salty and uber soft salmon has been sneaking out for secret midnight rendezvous (yes, that’s the plural form – Vocabulary Editor) with its smoked classmate while elsewhere, the gloopy seaweed offered glacial refreshment for the throat…
Hot smoked salmon, potatoes and concasse of tomatoes from the tearoom savouries menu at Mad About Sucre. The warm salmon slab masterfully redefines your IKEA-stemmed understanding of how smoked salmon should taste and feel, while elsewhere the hand-mashed potatoes surrender yieldingly in buttery earnestness. 3.9/5 (It would be remiss of…
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…
Aburi salmon belly don from DSTLLRY. Once inside the safe embrace of your mouthly cavern, the seared salmon slices seem to disintegrate into distinct layers – an external fatty and oily layer instantly disengages from the virtually liquid core of supple salmon flesh, which itself almost immediately melts on your…
Thick toast with smoked salmon from Craftsmen Specialty Coffee – thick toast, smoked salmon, guacamole, 2 eggs, sprouts, and roasted almond nuts with chipotle mayo. It started to feel like there was enough dough action here to feed an entire PCF Kindergarten class but thankfully the curry-ish chipotle mayo, so…
Kaisendon (Deluxe) set from Ken Japanish Restaurant. From the urghsome half-cooked egg that straddled the texture between half-boiled egg and cooked egg for Maggi Mee, to the two octopus sashimi slices which were so unmanageable that I felt like that guy in Korean thriller Oldboy having to swallow the gooey…
Pan Seared Salmon from Canopy Garden Bar – pan seared salmon on a bed of mashed potatoes & a healthy combination of leek, lettuce, green peas, vegetable broth and bacon. Essentially a well-cooked salmon in a comforting light broth designed to simulate a grandmother’s protective warm hug, and ideal for…
Chirashi Don from Chotto Matte. One of the instances whereby the picture can do all the talking (uni and ootoro, wave hi). The rice — obscured by the smorgasbord of sashimi — is nicely seasoned so that proceedings don’t get too dry and colourless, and you end the experience feeling…
Baked blinis from FYR Cycene Ond Drinc – blinis (thin pancake made with yeasted butter) with grilled salmon, egg, Avruga caviar and grated Bottarga. The blini tasted like a interesting, savoury cross between soft dough and butter cake, while elsewhere the roe appeared to have undergone cellular fusion and the…