Much Ado About Eating

Koung's Wanton Mee

2013-10-26T17:28:00.001+08:00

This wanton mee is so kick-ass good, I am already plotting the next meal halfway through the glorious plate of springy noodles and tender char siew.

Their self service system is not at all complicated. You order, take a queue number, find a seat, wait and watch out for your number. If you are like me who don't mind dropping dead in the middle of the streets because of clogged arteries, you can help yourself with some crispy fried lard bits before you usher your awesome plate of oily goodness back to the table.

Koung's Wanton Mee
205 Sims Avenue

Windowsill in the Woods

2013-10-05T08:55:00.003+08:00

Camp symmetry

This is the quirkiest and tastiest pie I have ever eaten. Truffle scented white chocolate pudding with raisins, chocolate cookie streusel topped with candied thyme and the cutest mushroom-shaped meringue. The flavours clashed and blended magically together. A piece of heaven on earth. Like all good things, Camp Symmetry does not exist in abundance. Two places carry it. Windowsill's flagship store and the very lucky Manicurious gets 3 pieces a day. Like all good things, Camp Symmetry does not last forever. In line with the event the pie is named after, it will be available till November and makes its return the following year. To make the deal better, co-owners Sean and Jonathan are refined and talented young men. Amiable, passionate and always ready to share their ideas. Jonathan is busy being a doctor now and Sean runs the shop space. Can we all just dash to Windowsill and convince Sean to make this item a permanent fixture please?

Windowsill in the Woods
78 Horne Road
Singapore 209078
Tel: 90047827

Jin Jin Dessert @ ABC Market

2013-09-22T20:24:00.001+08:00

The power cendol from ABC market WAS a little obsession of mine. Photos as evidence :)

While JJ starts its biz at 12:30pm, a small crowd will gather at the stall before the auspicious hour. So there I was, on a lovely weekend, waiting for my cendol fix since noon. As usual, the customers obediently formed a neat queue. Then came a young couple with a toddler. The three conveniently slotted themselves in front of an old lady. The old lady politely told the young couple to queue up but JJ's server asked the lady to just let the couple order first since they only wanted a bowl. I went up to the old lady who repeated her story to me. This obviously angered another server. He lectured the old lady for kicking a fuss and asked her to be more tolerant! The young couple jumped queue and the innocent old lady was made to look bad! The second server insisted the couple was at the market since 11am! Who knows, who cares and so what? Doesn't give the couple the right to jump queue. Most of us were somehow in the market at some earlier point in time.

So for all the popular hawkers out there. Please don't let your roaring business get into your head. Have the moral courage to ask people to queue up. Do not be selective and take advantage of the elderly. If you don't have the moral courage to manage your queue, at least be fair and honest. Do not be selective. Do not preach. Do not lie to defend yourselves. Power cendol was pretty good but I won't ever want it ever again.

LingZhi Vegetarian Restaurant

2013-09-10T10:09:00.003+08:00

Not really my fave. Just want to put on record some places we frequent. A better choice for vegetarian is Miao Yi.

LingZhi Vegetarian
Velocity@Novena Square
#03-09/10
238 Thomson Road
Singapore 307683
Tel: +65 6538 2992

Some Photos From Esquina

2013-09-10T09:59:00.000+08:00

Heard the good people from Esquina finally decided to take reservation for lunch. Quite sure the news have made a number of us pretty happy.

Esquina
16 Jiak Chuan Road
Singapore 089267
Tel: +65 6222 1616 (for it's finally relevant to know their phone number)

No Name Hainanese Curry Rice @ Beo Cresent

2013-09-08T20:21:00.004+08:00

And so they are screening a movie on this stall soon. Still prefer New Scissors-cut @ Geylang over this. Crazy queues but I will be back for their awesome minced meat patties.

No Name Curry Rice

Blk 40 Beo Cresent #01-10

Ho Ping Coffee Shop

New Scissors Cut Curry Rice @ Geylang Road

2013-09-08T20:13:00.005+08:00

Still my favourite after all these years. Culprit for my tremendous weight gain some 10 years ago. Best lor bak/kog bak in town. Oily, salty and black. No stall can beat this.

New Scissors Cut Curry Rice

699 Geylang Road

Dutch Colony Coffee @ PasarBella

2013-09-08T20:09:00.001+08:00

Windowsill pies nearer home. Chai latte better than flat white and latte.

Dutch Colony Coffee
PasarBella @ The Grandstand
200 Turf Club Road
Singapore 287994

Kai Xiang Seafood @ Kai Xiang Food Centre

2013-07-08T08:34:00.002+08:00

Stumbled upon this zichar stall when my fave fave fave thunder tea rice shifted to the coffeeshop of the same name. Anchor tenant?

Anyway, I dragged my folks down for a very pleasant meal. The coffeeshop is kind of dark as there is construction going on right next to it. I adjusted the brightness of my photos and they turned out too bright against the bright background. But what the heck lah. Food was really yummy. Took away their hor fun and fried crayfish on another occasion. Both were fabulous too. This stall is also featured in Channel 8 's Sizzling Woks and more recently here.

Fried Egg with Oyster

Plump and juicy oyster separated from fluffy eggs but still beautifully blended together. I love it.

Bittergourd with Salted Egg

Artery clogging salted egg neutralised by healthy bitter gourd. Ha ha just eat lah. It's very good and went well with plain rice.

Claypot Fish Tail

We had the special dish of the day. It's red grouper braised with fermented black beans and chili padi. Cannot go wrong with this cooking style. Fish was fresh, sweet and succulent.

3 of us, 3 dishes and rice. the bill came up to just above $30. The view of a green field was a plus (Just ignore the construction works right next to it). How wonderful.

Kai Xiang Food Centre
Blk 349 Jurong Eat Ave 1
Singapore 600349
Tel: 65637798

Kim's Family Restaurant

2013-06-22T22:30:00.000+08:00

Totally didn't expect a quiet dinner at Kim's. For a place used to be so crowded, it's pretty sad to see just two other tables occupied throughout the meal.

Ordered a korean ginseng chicken soup to share and the lady server said we were only entitled to 6 banchan instead of the usual 12. But we get to pick the 6 we wanted :)

Our chicken soup came sizzling hot as you can see from the video. The soup was light and minimally seasoned. Glutinous rice was very soft, just the way I like. Very nice. Unfortunately, the portion was too much for one and too little for two.

We contemplated ordering a pancake but eventually decided to head for the newish gelato shop instead.

Kim's Family Restaurant
17 Lorong Kilat
Tel: 64650535

Le Cafe

2013-06-05T16:05:00.000+08:00

The other day someone said he thinks the TEENAGE daughter of his colleague is ALSO a FOOD BLOGGER because she is crazy about Rich & Good Cake Shop and Le Cafe. Too many wrongs in that statement, I can only manage one rant here.

Beancurd Tarts

I was like, "please lah, who doesn't know about Le Cafe". Friends of the same age group and I shared memories of birthday cakes from either Le Cafe or Lana. Where else could we get birthday cakes in those good old days? Moreover, if one never heard about those golf ball pineapple tarts, one will surely know about that snobbish attitude of women in that shop. Her Highness got it too many times during my childhood years just because I love their rum balls. These days, I get it from them too. Countless times I have to put up with the women in the shop just to check out those delectable beancurd tarts. Strangely, the men in my life forever get better treatment than the women.

The lovely tarts from the photo above, I got them a couple of days ago. Popped into the shop at noon. Kena scolded for not making reservation. The lady said they happened to have some extras and beancurd tarts are usually ready by 1230pm only. And you know what? I never ever reserve but I always get to buy. And I always go at noon and they always have their beancurd tarts ready for sale. Next time I crave for Le Cafe, I shall send a man down. Sheesh.

Le Cafe
264 Middle Road
Singapore 188990
Tel/Fax: +65 6337 2417

Blk 42 Cambridge Road #01-02
Singapore 210042
Tel/Fax: +65 6298 1477

Blk 637 Veerasamy Road
#01-111
Singapore 200637
Tel/Fax: +65 6294 8813

Le Patio @ PasarBella

2013-05-23T00:00:00.000+08:00

The long-awaited indoor farmers' market turned up to be rather underwhelming. Thankfully we get to go gaga over Le Patio's paella.

Seafood Paella

The rice was too delicious. So delicious we went back to top it up halfway through our meal, at a little cost, of course. Embarassing still. But the nice lady at the counter made us feel that we are normal. Phew. The rice was too delicious. So delicious FOUR human beings came over and asked us where we got it. We pointed them to Le Patio with our mouths full. No one gave our sausage from Huber Butchery a second look. Why am I not surprise. People don't go to a farmers' market to see brand names and chain stalls. We would gladly swop that veal sausage for another serving of paella.

Whatever it is, PasarBella is disturbingly crowded, just like ALL new places in Singapore. So if you are planning to drop by over the longweek, remember the words above.

Le Patio
Stall #27
Pasarbella, The Grandstand
200 Turf Club Road
Singapore 287994

Caught Up In Life

2013-05-04T21:29:00.002+08:00

We know how it gets pretty hectic at times. But there will always be moments of good food and even better company. And when one gets too caught up in life to blog, there is always Instagram.

La Ristrettos

Tsujiri

Habitat Coffee

The Dunearn

Paradise Dynasty

Bonheur Patisserie

Patisserie G

Latteria Mozzarella Bar

2013-03-30T08:32:00.001+08:00

Never say never. Just when I declared proudly I have not and do not want to have anything to do with Singapore Restaurant Week, a totally unplanned visit fell on us. A friend wanted us to help take over his reservations. Last minute. Do not really mind since I like Latteria anyway. We need to find a place for lunch anyway.

Seared Buffalo Mozzarella with Parma Ham

I like the starter for a simple reason. It's everything I usually like and eat. Everything was fresh and probably done. Nice.

Seafood Cacciuco

This was pretty disappointing for I am always more of a bouillabaisse than cacciuco person. Seafood was fresh but portion was a bit teeny-weeny for a guy.

Lamb Shank

Lamb shank was highly recommended and the entire, yes ENTIRE restaurant was successfully and suspiciously dissuaded by their service staff to skip the smoked risotto for this. Lamb was truly fork tender but I had good memories of their truffle smoked risotto as well. Would prefer risotto anytime actually. Good for Latteria to have such amazingly convincing staff!

Red Wine Pear with Mascarpone

Dessert was refreshing and unique enough for me to stay happy for quite a while. Quite a feat to do this to someone with a jaded sweet tooth.

Well. Never say never or so they say. A lesson for me. Our virgin SRW experience was pretty good. If any chance land on my lap again, I will not say no. To purposely go for it? Still NO.

Latteria Mozzarella Bar

40 Duxton Hill

Tel: 68661988

Teppei Japanese Restaurant

2013-03-19T14:37:00.002+08:00

Finally took photos of Teppei. My nth visit since discovering this wonderful Japanese eatery last year. Nice, busy and energetic little place Teppei is. They do decent tempura sets over lunch and omakase dinner for a song. The end result? We see perpetual queue at its door even before it opens for service. For dinner, reservations must be made way in advance for bigger groups. If you ever bother, you will be rewarded with suitably delicious Japanese food amongst its clientele of mostly Japanese, very much an almost Tokyo-like-experience.

Vegetables Stew

Did not know what possessed me to overcome the lazy bug and snapped photos yesterday. Whatever it was, I must thank it. Now I have a photo of this innocent salmon for posterity sake. Lunch sets in Teppei come with rice, miso soup and whatever side dishes on the table. Ours was some vegetable pickles, vegetable stew and pan-fried salmon.

Pan-fried Salmon

We helped ourselves to a chunk of salmon each. Yummy. In fact, so yummy that the couple next to us, a Caucasian guy and a Chinese gal wanted some too. Unfortunately, they got lotus pickles instead. They were obviously more than disappointed. Hey dude! While you really love to have the salmon and we could see you were visibly upset, your lady companion was audibly upset as well. We love to share and make both of you happy but what we had were half-eaten salmon on our plates. There were only 3 pieces, we were a party of three and started our meal before you hopped in. By the way, we would love your lotus pickles too but we kept our wants to ourselves. Anyway, I hope your lovely lady friend is feeling better now.

Mixed Tempura (Part of the deal)

Tempura Prawn (Part of the deal)

And so the peril of a popular busy little restaurant where we literally get to rub shoulders with others. We had privy to sentiments although we rather not. Somehow, my tempura was kind of hard and dry for me yesterday. Not that easy to swallow.

Teppei Japanese Restaurant

1 Tras Link

#01-1863 Orchid Hotel

Tel: 62227363

Of Trotters and Bee Hoon

2013-02-27T15:36:00.000+08:00

Narcissus's yellow cans are familiar sights in my household. Their contents are savoury, oily and in short, satisfying much. Bamboo shoot goes well with gooey porridge. Fried fish topped with minced pork and bean paste always disappears in seconds. Stewed pork works like magic with chye sim, irresistible even to the strictest carnivore. Spicy pork cubes and stewed pork chops are good enough to eat straight from their cans. And love the awesome pork leg with mushrooms that surely deserves an award for making the best fried bee hoon ever. Pig Trotters Bee Hoon. You either love it or hate it. I love it.

New Ubin Seafood's

Unfortunately, in the course of my good or bad eating life, I developed allergies to preservatives and msg. These days, canned food and msg-laden stuff are just big no no. I get paralysed for days. No kidding. Thankfully, eateries do whip up pig trotters bee hoon from scratch. New Ubin Seafood stewed their fresh trotters in carefully concocted spiced-filled gravy. While it may not be a perfect substitute for my bee hoon made from Narcissus's pork leg, it is definitely in a class of their own. Of course, I always have to make sure no msg goes in, otherwise, suffering will begin.

Paradise Inn's

Another good option is actually Paradise Inn. Theirs comes in a slightly thicker and saltier gravy. For those who do not like a heavy dose of star anise, cinnamon and cloves, this will be better than New Ubin's rendition. Paradise Inn actually used fatter trotters than New Ubin. I ate the bee hoon at New Ubin thrice and Paradise Inn many times more. The trend is pretty consistent. Love both. You decide for yourself.

New Ubin Seafood
27 Sector A Sin Ming Industrial Estate

Singapore 575680

Tel: +65 6466 9558

Paradise Inn

Many Outlets
Numerous Malls in Singapore

Collective Celebrations

2013-02-15T15:50:00.001+08:00

You know how people say as you age you don't believe in celebrating any kind of day anymore? Too commercialised. Way too pretentious. Everyone should treat everyone else nicely everyday. It's all very true and I still believe so.

However as I grow even older, I try to find every single excuse to celebrate. Thanksgiving, christmas, lunar new year, birthdays and whatnots, just bring it on :) I want every celebration to be happy, noisy and filled with love :) It's just like how our grandparents wanted everyone to gather as often as possible. I totally understand it now. Nothing speaks happiness more than a bunch of joyful folks making merry together. Yesterday we celebrated collectively over much noise and grease. It was a bash. Of course, it would not be complete without my armcandy, my trophy. We will save all the cheesiness for ourselves in our private moments :) Of course, we will try to be nice to everyone around us too. Everyday.

Spruce @ Phoenix Park

2013-02-07T15:38:00.000+08:00

Someone wants me to put up his photos as he wants to know how it feels like to be a food blogger. So strange as I am forever dead worried about letting people in restaurants know I blog about food. These two photos were taken with a BB and took quite awhile to compose. Sigh. I am sure the attempt was to make me feel the frustrations of dining with someone who must snap a photo before she eats.

Short Ribs

Risotto

I always like Spruce. Hearty food, competent cooking and patrons who radiate really good vibes. Pretty mix reviews of this place online but the short ribs we had were well-seasoned and tender, which is what matters to me most. Risotto was all very proper. Right texture, flavourful but not overly salted. Servings were so generous that we skipped desserts.

On a separate note. CNY is at our doorsteps :):):) I am a sucker for all the redness and yummy food. Love reunion dinner best :):):) Lest I get too caught up in the festivities and fail to log in here - HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR! Have a great one!

Spruce

320 Tanglin Road

Phoenix Park

Tel: 68365528

Tekka Market

2013-01-28T16:02:00.001+08:00

Weekend was well-spent in Little India. We managed to buy buah keluak for CNY and soaked in the atmosphere of Thaipusam at the same time. I am such a sucker for all sorts of festivities :)

Dum Briyani from Yakader

Of course we had to go to one of my favourite briyani stall to load up on carbo and spices.

Other than Yakader and Allauddin's briyani, I only know Tekka market in theory (read, hear, talk and seen photos of it but never go before). Thankfully I always get to eat take-aways from these 2 stalls. Yesterday was the first time I had Yakader's briyani on the spot. Glad to announce their dum briyani tastes wonderful either way!

Masala Tea from the corner drinks stall next to AR Rahman

Ordered a masala tea randomly which tasted good but I have had better.

Prata from AR Rahman

For the obligatory prata fix, we went to AR Rahman. There was a long queue at this stall and A promptly went to stand in the queue. Honestly, freshly-made prata could not really go very wrong. Curry was delicious. Nice pratas but not mind-blowingly so.

Cendol from Maya Mohan

Of course, I did enough research on Tekka Market to know cendol is a must-have! Told you guys I knew the market pretty well in theory :) At $1.20 a pop, it was so good. The slightly savoury coconut milk was very smooth and the taste of gula melaka was strong yet pleasant. Most importantly, the pale green cendol actually tasted of pandan! Now, where can we get such good stuff in Singapore?! Trust me. Go to Tekka Market and save a trip to Malacca!

Buah Keluak

We also took home briyani from Hanifa and cendol from another random stall. Both were really good as well. Of course, I didn't dare to go home without lugging a huge bag of buah keluak for Her Highness.

Tekka Market
665 Buffalo Road
Singapore 210665

Symmetry

2013-01-21T09:00:00.000+08:00

Gosh! What kind of eatery is this?!

Ha ha! Symmetry is a place with pretty good food and equally charming decor. I am getting really lazy to write and put up photos these days. So go and see for yourselves ok?

The pals and I played the "surprise me game" for our lunch gathering last week. In our world, whenever anyone is late, we will text to say "surprise me" which means order-anything-for-me-and-I-mean-it-so-I-will-really-eat-anything-you-ordered-gratefully.

Apologies for the bad photo. Food here is kind of difficult to frame

These friends of mine really know me very well. They ordered a salmon sandwich which wasn't surprising (the irony) at all. Everyone was almost done when I finally arrived, ridiculously late and way past the lunch hour. It was not really a bad thing. Servings at Symmetry were large, I got to pinch everyone's leftovers and everyone got to eat my freshly fried fries. Fries were absolutely irresistible with some mayo spiked with truffle oil. And my salmon sandwich was everything a delicious salmon sandwich should be :)

Symmetry
9 Jalan Kubor
#01-01 S(199206)

Absinthe Restaurant Francais

2013-01-15T08:00:00.000+08:00

I had really good meals at Absinthe. Perhaps the heightened expectations resulted in an underwhelming lunch.

Prawn and Avocado Salad - Refreshing but that was it

Salad of Smoked Duck Breast - We were uncomfortable with the strong taste of goat cheese

Iberico Pork Presa - Nothing much to say but edible

Sea Bream - Fish itself was nice and oily

Chocolate cake, Apple Tart and Complimentary Creme Brulee - Nothing particularly outstanding

I was pretty excited to check out Absinthe ever since they shifted to Boat Quay. Sadly, other than little surprise they did for the birthday celebration. Nothing else was memorable in any way. Depressing.

Absinthe

72 Boat Quay
Singapore 049860

Tel: (65) 6222 9068

Shiok Maki and Its Second Generation

2013-01-07T09:00:00.000+08:00

Friends say I am a waste of good sushi and people like me are only good enough for cheap sushi bars.

Shiok!! Maki

And who am I to blame them? Years ago, I was barked by the chef at Shinji and no one dare to bring me back again ;P I have this criminal habit of drowning my sushi and sashimi with copious amount of wasabi and mayonnaise. Quite sure any self-respecting Japanese chef would want to set a ninja on me.

Second Generation Shiok Maki

And so the shiok maki is just the right thing. The original shiok!! is sure the mother of all bastardised makis - aburi salmon, avocado, unagi, topped with mayo and fish roe. Shiok!! really lives up to its name. SHIOK!! Generation 2 is a lighter rendition of its predecessor. Unagi is replaced with tempura prawn and avocado with wakame. I say I like the original shiok!! How about you?

Koh Grill and Sushi Bar
435 Orchard Road
Wisma Atria #04-21

Meals and My Best Meal in 2012

2012-12-31T09:00:00.000+08:00

I am sure the culinary world has been exciting but I do really not care. I am obsessed with my new job. The new workplace got me acquainted with Shunfu Mart where lasting friendships were forged with sardine puffs from Pie Connection, chee cheong fun from Meizhen Hakka and chicken rice from Leong.

I do not talk about work at all but I do think about work all the time. I am a closet workaholic in that way. Even then, it was not difficult to notice the invasion of artisan bakeries at the beginning of 2012. Amongst the many, Baker & Cook came to stay our lives, making its presence felt with wonderful fruit and nuts loaves on many of my mornings. Along the way, Jason Atherton started three eateries in town. And I went Pollen thrice. Cannot remember if I like the food or simply like our new Gardens by the Bay. Towards the later half the year, we were invaded by too many tapas bars. I pledged my loyalty to Salt simply due to the PJ privilege card that dropped on my lap (Yup I am a cheapskate who likes cheap thrills and oops sorry C, now you know why I haven't been to your well-publicised new baby yet, I promised I will make it happen in 2013).

Then again, indie cafes were just so 2011, I was into Henry Congressional, the guerrilla cafe of 2012. Love the coffee, hate the overpriced/overrated pandan chiffon and hate to not have it anymore in 2013. Thankfully Club 21 and bankers gave out endless supplies of starbucks cards this year. So bye HC and hi SB!

I am sure the culinary world has been awesome in 2012 but I do really not care. My best meal in 2012 happened in a pretty unknown place. Read this place off @keropokman and decided to celebrate my birthday at Putien Codfish Specialty House. Totally faultless execution of every dish. Best birthday dinner and meal in 2012.

Salted Duck Soup

Rarely we find places that cook with coal these days. Both soup and vinegar trotters were delicious to the max.

Trotters cooked in Vinegar

Sambal Clams

Clams were sweet, spicy and savoury all together.

Clams with ginger and spring onions

Appeared paler than the above but just as tasty.

Pork Chops

Common tze char stuff but competently done and so very tender.

Heng Hwa Lor Mee

Ultra addictive and delish. And I do not even like soupy stuff in the first place. This was a winner.

Heng Haw Fried Bee Hoon

Another winner. Did I mention this? Both lor mee and bee hoon were $4 each! Unbelievable.

Fried Yam

Not really a dessert but a very nice sweet end to my birthday meal with the family. The best meal and best find in 2012. 2013 will be better. Yours too. Have a good New Year's Eve and a wonderful 2013!

Putien Codfish Specialty House
2 Phoenix Road
Tel" +65 6875 0577

Liebster Award

2012-12-29T13:42:00.000+08:00

Yay! So flattered to be tagged by the Chef and Sommelier! His is a great blog with wonderful recipes and gorgeous photos. Wish I can cook, plate and snap like him!

Cooking or Blogging?
I am actually a backseat cook or you can call me an armchair cook. Grown up in a family of fabulous cooks, I spend a large part of my time at home looking at the others cook. I am great at giving instructions on what and how to cook. Say I am a show-off if you must but I have this amazing ability to predict how ingredients can combine to make a great dish! I never rely on recipes but dishes I "cooked" verbally never ever fail!

Your favourite Chef/Restaurant?
This is a difficult question because my faves come in phases. An all-time fave will be Ember@Keong Saik but recently I got super addicted to Teppei's omakase meals.

Three favourite ingredients?
Maldon salt, fresh herbs of all sorts, Shaoxing wine.

Three ingredients that you would avoid?
Artificial colourings/flavourings, palm oil and ketchup. In my world, sweet and sour pork should always be done with sugar and vinegar.

Breakfast, Lunch or Dinner?
All three. As long as they are eaten at the right time, in the the right place, with the right food and amongst the right company. Pet peeve these days is eateries that serve breakfast at all times.

Coffee or Tea?
Doesn't seem to reflect on this blog but really it's TEA.

Cakes or Cookies?
Cakes for a practical reason. I need to yell a lot at work and cookies give me a bad throat.

Butter or Olive Oil?
Butter.

Red or White (Wine)?
White.

Which three famous individuals would you invite to dinner (dead or alive)?
Margaret Thatcher, Mahathir Mohamad and Deng Xiaoping. Am crazily interested in political leaders. Again, not seen in this blog. Would love to ask them many questions.

If you were to have your last meal, what would it be?
My mum's chicken rice. Extra skin please.

I hate rules so not passing on the award to 11 bloggers! But here are my 11 questions for anyone out there. If you can leave your answer in the comments box, I will be a very very happy girl.

1. Sparkling or still?
2. Scrambled or poached eggs?
3. Spaghetti or fusilli?
4. Paul or Maison Kayser?
5. Imperial Treasure or Crystal Jade?
6. Killiney or Ya Kun?
7. Gryphon or TWG?
8. SCS or Lurpak?
9. Haagen Daz or Ben & Jerry's?
10. What is your favourite hawker or street food?
11. What is one cuisine type you cannot accept?

Can't wait to know you better!

Otto Ristorante

2012-12-20T09:00:00.000+08:00

I wonder what happened to certain nice restaurants I used to like. Recently, an equally disappointing lunch at another restaurant reminded me of this underwhelming lunch. Ate this quite awhile ago but the disappointments were too similar. I will post about the place which have shifted to Boat Quay soon. For now, let's just concentrate on Otto.

Amuse Bouche

Cranberry Bread

Free bread was probably the best part of the meal.

Focacia

Glad we had extra helpings.

Warm Asparagus with Soft-Boiled Egg and dry Beef

Killiney or Ya Kun may not do a silkier egg but I was really expecting more. This was part of the set lunch.

Arugula Quadrotti with Blue Swimmer Crab

Used to be my fave. Then again, it may be due to my evolving palate. This was way to salty for me. Had it for lunch sometime ago and tried again during a more recent dinner. Both were equally salty.

Vicenza Style Baked Cod with soft Polenta

Polenta was very nice. Liked the classic Italian take on cod fish. This dish, on the other hand, was pretty bland.

Lemon Marinated Strawberry and Cream

A pedestrian dessert as part of the lunch set. Period.

Otto Ristorante
28 Maxwell Road
Red Dot Traffic Building