Stamina Bowl from the newly-opened Workspace Espresso – tamarind chilli sea bass, goji brown rice, miso chilli eggplant, broccoli cauliflower, wakame wood-ear salad, sprouts, seeds. The chilli elements likely suffered burnout from their high-power, glamorously busy CBD existences, while elsewhere the sea bass ate clean and the wakame wood-ear salad…
Whole Sea Bass “Au Plat” from Ash & Elm at Intercontinental Singapore – whole sea bass from the deep-sea farm of Mauritius with fennel confit, cherry tomato confit, taggiasca olives, lemon and beurre blanc sauce. A buttery gloss stridently dominates the proceedings, while elsewhere conquering the fish is quite the…
Panseared Pulau Ubin sea bass, roasted new potato, garden herbed beurre blanc sauce. The wondrous sauce makes the entire dish – it was an unbelievably tasty creation, like a zesty combination of skim-milk mayonnaise and Pure Yoga oil, with oodles of vitality. Everything tasted a bajillion times better with the…
Steamed seabass with lime and chilli. The indignant-looking seabass soaked in a homemade broth made using fresh lime juice, garlic, chilli, and spring onions among others. The broth was sharply tangy, enormously flavourful and easily the spiciest thing I had that night – two sips in, I was frankly dumbfounded…
Oven roasted Chilean sea bass with celeriac, honshimeji and edamame. The fish was good – moist, buttery and well-cooked, with nice crumbs for added crunch. I enjoyed the bitterness of the edamame and mushrooms, but the celeriac left me rather bemused as it tasted very much like it had just…