Seafood risotto from CreatureS. The tomato-heavy seafood broth was comfortably light and the rice had sufficient bite, but the medley of seafood probably took a delayed flight. 3.7/5 CreatureS 120 Desker Road Singapore 209639
larvitar x rubbisheatrubbishgrow. A good dish at La Ventana (fun fact: owner Carles Gaig also owns the one Michelin-starred Restaurant Gaig in Barcelona) would be the Carabinero Paella ($34) – carnaroli rice with calamari and carabinero prawn. While I was busy snapping a picture of the paella, Salaryman was busy salivating…
Glazed scallops from La Ventana Singapore – Hokkaido scallops (4 units) with Jerusalem artichoke in three textures. Perhaps size doesn’t always matter – the scallops were undeniably gargantuan but lacked that vulnerably soft tenderness that make the taste of scallop so distinctive, every inch of their waxen bodies being uniformly…
Seafood Bouillabaisse from The Royal Mail Restaurant & Bar. The langoustine, essentially a massive prawn who tasted like he had spent his formative years on Sixth Avenue and played golf on weekends, did the PR heavy lifting with his intense and brooding good looks while the other featured stars simply…
Cambarang Chili Garam from Quentin’s – fresh large prawns fried with chilli paste and salt. The big and juicy prawns were slathered with a curious paste that tasted like it was made by dejuicing the essence from a hundred rambunctious pigs. Good for bacon enthusiasts or pig haters. 3.4/5 Quentin’s…
Tiger Prawn from Pluck – baked tiger prawn, slow cooked egg, chilli crab puree, cilantro oil and mantou. Essentially lobster served with a crabby, chilli-spicy soft-boiled egg gravy. The prawn was massive, buttery, bitter and really, really phat (this tiger probably hid in its den and remained sedentary during its…
Scallop, Apples, Bacon from Pluck – pan-seared scallops, roasted Granny Smith apples, hazelnut crumble, bacon tuile and caramel. The massive scallops had a nicely grilled and salty layer with a vulnerable and signature scallopy rawness in their centres. The apple sauce was bossy with its sucre agenda but did not…
Lobster porridge from Diamond Kitchen – steamed local lobsters, “pao fan”, chicken stock, Chinese wine and ginger. Essentially a most tenacious giant prawn sitting in a light and comforting broth. The lobster, easily extracted from the remnants of its former home, tasted like it must have been an athletic man who…
Diamond gan xiang crab from Diamond Kitchen – Sri Lankan crab wok-fried with spices. It’s all about the sauce when it comes to crabs and this gan xiang sauce – an intriguing mix of sambal, bean paste and curry powder – was ridiculously fragrant and addictive (the kind of substance one…