Sambal Brinjal with Crispy Grago (tiny shrimps) from Baba Wins’ Peranakan Cuisine, which has since relocated to Tiong Bahru Plaza’s rather happening new food area. The soft brinjal served as subservient, Leticia Bongnino-esque canvas cushions for the crispy, salty shrimp infants, which marvellously elevated the proceedings to that of an…
Prawn & Hae Bi Hiam Pasta from Redpan – tagliatelle tossed with housemade spicy shrimp paste, sakura ebi and sautéed prawns. The hae bi hiam aroma at play is irresistible, while elsewhere the introverted sakura ebi is overshadowed by the busyness of the proceedings and is best savoured directly on…
Mitzo special barbecued pork. The skin of this amazing piggylicious delight must have been separated at birth from crème brûlée. I doodled a diagram in my notes whilst eating this – it was a circle labelled “middle” within a box with area outside the circle shaded and labelled “melts in…