Tomyum Seafood Pasta (creamy tomyum sauce pasta with prawn & mussel) from Fuel Plus’ refreshed menu. The drought-stricken tomyum sauce played it as safe as a quadruple-layered Huggies diaper, leaving the fettuccine’s starchiness vulnerably exposed. Elsewhere, the wonderfully crunchy and succulent prawns were woefully overqualified for this position. 3.3/5 Fuel…
Naughty Pork & Beans from Kilo – tom yum stewed beans, pork jowl, sour kale chips & chorizo. Whilst the mutant tom yum stewed beans and the kale chips pairing did its Bangkok reenactment with the gusto of the best Chinese Opera pupils from Poi Ching School, the piggies may…
Reinterpreted Seafood Tom Yum Goong on ice from The East Bureau. Rich in oceanic flavour but light on feist, this mod glacial treat – with esteemed guests like abalone and salmon sashimi gracing the event – starts the proceedings on a clean, minimalist note. 3.7/5 The East Bureau 6 Raffles…
Mad Mussels from The Fickle Mussel – spicy mussels slapped with lemongrass aroma, garlic and chilli, and touted with a cut of toasted sourdough bread. The mussels are good…in the sense that they are absorbent conduits between your mouth and the swimming pool they are lounging in, which is a…
Tom Yum Seafood Pasta from Collective Brewers – medley of sauteed prawns, mussels and squid with capsicum, mushroom, Thai basil and spaghetti in a creamy Tom Yum sauce. Not my ultimate favourite tom yum seafood pasta just yet – Rise & Grind still holds the throne as of July 2015…
Claypot coconut tom yum soup from Spicy Thai-Thai Cafe. Wildly different from its more sadistic Red Tom Yum Soup sibling on the menu. The tom yum soup was robustly spicy yet at the same time sweet and not too milky, and I enjoyed the uncommon inclusion of coconut slices, which…
Tom Yum Seafood Pasta from Rise & Grind Coffee Co. – squid, fish, shrimp, creamy tom yum sauce, nori. I have had overrated interpretations of this dish elsewhere which left me cold, but here my breath (and all sensation in the lips) were taken away rapidly. The creamy tom yum…
Tom Yam Goong with Prawns & Fish Maw. The soup was like a confused adolescent who couldn’t decide if it wanted to swing towards Chinese (we’re talking tofu, mushroom, tomatoes and the Kombi Rocks signature fishcake used as ingredients) or Thai, so it just nonchalantly wore a Qipao and said…
Tom Yum Fried Rice. The rice was quite wet and sticky, with the grains fusing with each other into clingy lumps and each spoonful being a big lump of small lumps. I would have preferred if the rice grains remained independent and loose, like comfortable underwear. Fortunately, the glue that…