Roasted cod and soba noodle salad from Populus – roasted cod loin, soba noodles, marinated mushrooms, lightly pickled vegetables, broad beans, lime and sesame dressing. Whilst the saltily-skinned cod may have gone a tad overboard in its vain efforts to achieve a Kim Kardashian-esque bronze, the soba noodles were intriguingly…
Truffle soba from Two Bakers. The soba was made appealingly salty and fragrant by the sauce and seasoning with the truffle being as light as a mynah’s roadside abandoned feather with its touch, never being too heavy-handed with its usually militant agenda. Elsewhere, the succulent portobello mushroom squirted its juices…
Salmon soba noodles from Atlas Coffeehouse – glazed salmon, soba noodles, marinated shimeji, fried egg. Whilst the sour, vinegary noodles played it nice and cool, the salty glazed salmon possessed a Hermione Granger class participation-esque enthusiasm to gain favour with flavour. 3.6/5 Atlas Coffeehouse 6 Duke’s Road Singapore 268886
Gambas – soba in prawn jus topped with roasted sesame infused minced prawn. Felt like a big vegetarian stir-fry noodle dish. Fantasies of juicy fat prawn chunks sorta got popped with a pin as they probably were so minced, they became molecular. 3.25/5 The Laneway Market 266 Tanjong Katong Road…