In August 2018, I checked into the King Club Room at Grand Hyatt Singapore, which is situated minutes away from Orchard MRT station and numerous shopping malls such as Far East Plaza, Shaw House, Scotts Square and ION Orchard. I have always had very average service experiences at Hyatt properties…
Roussillon White Peach Tart from Tarte by Cheryl Koh. Tarte by Cheryl Koh 1 Scotts Road #01-12 Shaw Centre Singapore 228208
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…
Academïcs Pancake Tower from The Coffee Academïcs Singapore – layered pancakes topped with mixed berries and blueberry coulis, served with berry sorbet and whipped cream. The enormously-filling and portentously looming structure had the heat-trapping cottony fluffiness of an ungroomed Pomeranian, whilst elsewhere the jammy berry sorbet had a Joo Chiat-esque…
Salmon Served Two Ways from Les Amis Restaurant – wild Scottish salmon served two ways with crunchy vegetables. The creamy, wasabi-tinged tartare was a textural hybrid of sashimi and mousse whilst elsewhere the salmon, nicely charred and roasty on the outside with a soft pink centre, goes limp in yielding…
Foie gras with eel from Les Amis Restaurant – combination of pan-seared foie gras and French river eel with citrus fruit compote and dashi. The soft, tender Chinese foie gras was visibly addicted to sweet sesame brittle treats, whilst elsewhere the mackerel-esque eel possessed a seductive, gentlemanly cigar smokiness and…
Glorious Prosperity Yu Sheng with Baby Abalone from Indocafe. Essentially a Peranakan curry chap chye-esque take on yu sheng, with the mischievously spicy nyonya sauce having a tentative yet beguilingly intriguing rendezvous with the raw salmon slices and the candied citrus peel adding a youthful glow to the proceedings. Unexpectedly…
Standing firmly at attention like garang NSF recruits during first parade are these mini snowskin mooncakes from Li Bai Cantonese Restaurant, Sheraton Towers Singapore – (clockwise from front) lotus paste with salted egg yolk, green tea paste with yuzu truffle, lotus paste with champagne truffle and red date paste with…