Spicy Chicken Stew (Spice Level 1 of 4) at Masizzim Singapore. When you taste the stew on its own, powdery ashes float lazily in the wind and land ever so gently and quietly on your tongue, and you will dismiss these innocuous-seeming embers, but seconds later they register with white-hot…
Balukoo Wantons from Black Nut – buah keluak flesh, finely diced prawn, spring onion, ginger, garlic and homemade sambal chilli dip. The ever so slightly bitter, earthy and dry wantons craved for the black nuts which arrogantly stayed safely in their sac, but the shrimpy, spicy Nasi Lemak-esque chilli made…
Ayam Bakar Burger from Black Nut – juicy chicken leg spiced with lemongrass, blue ginger, lime leaves, assam, black pepper, and glazed with sweet kecap manis and homemade rumpah spice paste. A grand pity the supernova of Asian flavours did not penetrate to the core of the resultantly dry patty,…
Lemon Steam Squid from Haha Thai. A love gift for those who itch for flirtation with oral danger – a highly citric flare blitz assaults your senses, the soup marvellously imbued with the essence of squid so thoroughly leached that the squid lies lifelessly shagged from all the flavour extraction.…
“Pasta X Chicken X Green Curry = ??” from Som Tam – pan-seared pasta with sweet and savoury Thai green curry. Essentially a most scintillating extra-marital jungle romp between instant noodle curry powder, mee rebus and green curry…if you request for it to be more spicy. The picture on the…
After You toast with Thai basil and Chocolate Chip ice cream from Som Tam. Compared to Tuk Tuk Cha’s golden crumbliness, the saltily buttery toast here is of a notably softer, gentler ilk and elsewhere, the Thai basil and chocolate chip combination tasted like chippy tropical jungle. 3.9/5 Som Tam…
Hire/Rosu Katsu Set from Tonkichi. If there is a food glossary on the different forms of “口感” (in-mouth sensations), the “krik krik krik” of the crispy skin here deserves an entry. The meat itself can get taxing if you’re enjoying the whole portion by yourself, but the sesame paste (that…
Ton Shabu Set from Tonkichi – blanched, thin sliced pork loin with sesame sauce and ponzu sauce. Essentially a shabu shabu experience sans the heat and steam, with citrus-tinged, super-soft and highly absorbent 1-ply pork sponges which soak up the refreshing combination of sesame and ponzu sauces perfectly. 4/5 This…
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…