During the period of August 2013 to February 2014, we visited 11 cafés across Singapore to try out their flat whites, piccolo lattes, white double ristrettos, mochas, iced coffees, pour overs and one Prosecco. Guess how many are still in operation today?
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Vegetables can be delicious too, you know
Like many people, I grew up not liking vegetables. They were always the least tasty part of any meal and something that I had to forcibly swallow to finish my meal. It took a while for me to get over my childhood dislike of vegetables, and over time, I found that I actually started to like them.
Not just as a necessary evil to be tolerated, but as a delicious dish to be enjoyed. So much so that I regularly seek out vegetarian restaurants to have an entire meal comprising *gasp* only of vegetables.
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Nanyang 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.
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The plating at Brasserie Les Saveurs is just so pretty
Firstly, our waiter set down our bowl-shaped plates with the neatly assembled lobster, microgreens and croutons. Then, he proceeded to fill our plates with bisque from his large gravy boat, creating a viscous moat around the mini lobster island. I don’t know why, but this way of presenting soup always impresses the heck out of me. I just find it so elegant and bourgeois (an atas French word that means atas), and it tasted as good as it looked.
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The semi-buffet at One-Ninety offers a great balance of choice and quality
The good thing about buffets is the large amount and variety of food on offer, ensuring that everyone gets to choose what they want to eat. The bad thing about buffets is that, for the very same reasons, the quality of food tends to be mediocre.
One way that restaurants have found to balance the trade-off is to offer semi-buffets, where appetisers and desserts are served in the traditional all-you-can-eat format, and main courses are restricted to one per diner and cooked-to-order.
For a good example of this, there’s no better choice than the One-Ninety Restaurant in the Four Seasons Hotel in Singapore. When you’re there, make sure to choose the Braised Beef Cheek as your entrée and go easy on the appetisers.
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When you can’t fly to Japan, head to Tanoke for good food and lots of sake
The six bottles of sake on display were only a small sample, because once you turn around, you’re greeted with a wall of chillers packed with sake from all over Japan. It’s not a terribly large collection, but it is impressive and not a common sight in Singapore.
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Brewing freshly roasted beans from Tiong Hoe Specialty Coffee
I’d read about how good Ethiopian beans resulted in coffee with a prominent blueberry note, but I’ve always been skeptical. How can coffee taste like blueberry? But I finally understood after tasting it for myself. It had good balance and body, with a wonderfully floral scent and that amazingly addictive blueberry flavour.
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Old school Hainanese Western food at Prince Coffee House
The oxtail stew arrived next, with chunky pieces of soft and beefy meat drenched in brown sauce and accompanied by steamed potatoes and vegetables. Given the fall-off-the-(tail)bone-ness of the meat, it was obvious that it was slow-cooked for many many hours. The sides were, as expected, boiled to death but were still delicious with the slightly peppery brown sauce. Because a good brown sauce makes anything taste good.
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We really tried our best to finish the generous lunch at Beach Road Kitchen
Beach Road Kitchen has been on our list of buffet restaurants to try for the longest time, but with buffets being a no-no during this socially-distant period, it dropped off our radar and didn’t feature at all on my eating out list for 2021. However, as we were browsing the various restaurants participating in this year’s Restaurant Week, the menu and compelling price point at Beach Road Kitchen caught The Wife’s attention and we found ourselves there on a weekday afternoon.
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Rojak from the heartlands of Singapore
Abdhus Salam is a second generation Indian rojak hawker with a stall named after him.
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