We eagerly scanned through all 38 items on the menu. They all sounded really enticing, and the thought of ordering everything briefly crossed our minds.
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For jeongmal delizioso Korean fusion food, head to Banjoo Iksun
Beautifully browned potato dumplings and generous chunks of smoky bacon floated on a pool of vibrantly green perilla leaf cream.
Continue readingAsian fusion cream pasta with Japanese, Korean and Chinese flavours
If you’re a fan of Italian cream pasta and have some Asian sauces sitting in your fridge, why not experiment and see what you can whip up?
Continue readingFusion food is hard to pull off, but 15 Stamford does it masterfully
It’s easy to descend into fusion/confusion when mixing ingredients, cooking methods, seasonings and presentations across so many different cuisines, but 15 Stamford navigated it wonderfully.
Continue readingThe delightful ginger-infused dishes of Halia Restaurant
Our ginger adventure officially started with the Lemongrass & Ginger Prawn Salad. It was a riot of colours, with turmeric-coated prawns and pinkish-purple ginger flower dressing on top of a generous bed of green greens, yellow mangoes and red cherry tomatoes. The flavour was as exciting as it looked.
Continue readingNanyang Chinese fusion cuisine done right at Famous Treasure
There’s an abundance of Chinese restaurants in Singapore, many of which specialise in specific regional cuisine such as Cantonese, Teochew, Hokkien, Sichuan, Hakka etc. But even though Famous Treasure is also a Chinese restaurant, they don’t quite fit the mold.
Yes, they have Cantonese roast meats on their menu and serve traditional Teochew orh nee dessert, but what makes them special are their well-executed Nanyang (南洋) dishes, many of which you’d typically find at neighbourhood tze char stalls.
Continue readingTraditional vs modern Korean fine dining
Seoul had never struck me as a city for fine dining, but the delightful meals at La Yeon and Jungsik completely changed my mind.
The emphasis at La Yeon was on preserving traditional Korean cuisine, whereas Jungsik’s focus was to meld Korean flavours with European techniques.
Both achieved their objectives to near perfection.
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