My next favourite dim sum restaurant after Wah Lok at Carlton Hotel. Everything were so yummious, and it’s definitely a spot I would return again.

• Steamed Prawn Dumpling (Ha Kau)
• Steamed Pork Dumpling (上海小笼包)
• Steamed Chicken Claw with Black Bean Sauce
• Steamed Chives Dumpling
• Mini Egg Tart
• Roasted BBQ Pork Belly
• Steamed BBQ Honey Pork Bun
• Steamed Vermicelli Roll with Fresh Prawn
• Steamed Mousse on Silver Thread (Crispy fritter) Vermicelli Roll with Prawn
• Steamed Scallop Dumpling
• Steamed Glutinous Rice with Szechuan Chicken in Lotus Leaf
• Stir Fried Baby Kai Lan with Fried Onions
• Stir Fried Carrot Cake with Signature Chilli Sauce
• Oven Baked Snow Skin Bun

Among the top sushi restaurants in Singapore, 2-Michelin-star Shoukouwa is my least liked, whereas no-star Ki-sho is my fav. Perhaps because in season it’s usually an uni orgy that sends sea urchin lovers to Cloud Nine. For the best experience, splurge for the $450++ Omakase dinner menu. Generous use of premium and extremely fresh ingredients, diversity of styles, and mastery of techniques by talented chef Hamamoto.

The Linguine Vongole, look at the huge clams! The wife ordered it because she saw another table had it and she loved it! I had the Iberico Pork Secreto. Lovely pork, just that the thicker part was a bit too rare, so I didn’t touch that part. Usually I will but you know the precaution. 75% of it was just nice, medium done as ordered. To share amongst us, we had the calamari and cauliflower fritti. The caper aoili is nice, must replicate at home! The kid’s meal is so tasty, fresh tomatoes spaghetti is good. This has no meat and it taste better than many other kids spaghetti we have tried. Wild mushroom soup is super good too. The restaurant is packed now. We discovered something too. If you’re staying here, there’s a 15% off if you charge it to your room. We saved 1 red and 2 purple SG bills.

Open Farm Community is a huge and airy Dempsey restaurant with a large patio at the back for alfresco dining - see if you can spot the roving chickens! We love this spot for its farm-to-table eating philosophy and healthy menu, with dishes such as Roasted Chicken Thigh topped with kai lan and tamarind bbq sauce and Sweet Potato Tortellini. Burppler Tiffany Lim recommends the Local Peking Duck Rillette, which comes with crispy sourdough that "is so good, and this starter definitely makes you want to eat more."

Photo by Burppler Karen Tan

Fried chicken waffles tasted like har cheong gai!

Waffles was very underwhelming, not buttery, not fluffy, not crispy. Flavour is flat.

$40 for this. Definitely not coming back

This was seemingly more worth it than the Hamburg set, in both its portion and flavour. Well presented, the tornado egg pleasantly surprised us. The tomato sauce complemented the Japanese rice and egg, which was soft and slightly flowy. The fried shrimp was crispy and hot, with a sauce at the side to dip. However, still a little overpriced for the quality of the meal - neither mind blowing nor disappointing.
Rate:🌟🌟🌟

Have been visiting Yatkayan Dessert pretty regularly these days but it’s always been a pleasure to be having their desserts — from their traditional pastes to the ever popular Orh Nee and the simplistic Egg Pudding which is so-ever refined, every visit has been either finding a new favourite, to having something familiar that I love.

Pleasantly surprised that they had recently introduced the Yammy Chendol — a combination of their stellar Yam Paste and Chendol all in one package; that sort of item that would certainly catch my attention. One would think that the two would make up a pretty odd combination, but I like how that earthy yam paste still carries ample flavour with an evident hint of scallion oil amidst the Chendol to switch things up a little — gives the Chendol a slight richness and thickness in terms of texture, while the shaved ice comes drenched in coconut milk that’s pretty decadent; all that with the Pandan jelly that provides for a slight hint of fragrance, red beans for a bit of earthiness and sticky, gooey Gula Melaka for just the right degree of sweetness.

Must say that this may come across as pricey to some at $5.50, but the Yammy Chendol comes at a pretty substantial portion — works great to share, or if one had a rather light lunch. Still, this is probably the best of both worlds one can get — something which definitely works well enough for me!

Have been visiting Yatkayan Dessert pretty regularly these days but it’s always been a pleasure to be having their desserts — from their traditional pastes to the ever popular Orh Nee and the simplistic Egg Pudding which is so-ever refined, every visit has been either finding a new favourite, to having something familiar that I love.

Pleasantly surprised that they had recently introduced the Yammy Chendol — a combination of their stellar Yam Paste and Chendol all in one package; that sort of item that would certainly catch my attention. One would think that the two would make up a pretty odd combination, but I like how that earthy yam paste still carries ample flavour with an evident hint of scallion oil amidst the Chendol to switch things up a little — gives the Chendol a slight richness and thickness in terms of texture, while the shaved ice comes drenched in coconut milk that’s pretty decadent; all that with the Pandan jelly that provides for a slight hint of fragrance, red beans for a bit of earthiness and sticky, gooey Gula Melaka for just the right degree of sweetness.

Must say that this may come across as pricey to some at $5.50, but the Yammy Chendol comes at a pretty substantial portion — works great to share, or if one had a rather light lunch. Still, this is probably the best of both worlds one can get — something which definitely works well enough for me!

literally the best jjajangmyeon in town, nuff said. also, love all their stews too 🤤

(jjajangmyeon $12 / kimchi jjigae $12)

(Apologies for the unfocused photo but didn’t really bother because of the poor lighting outdoors at night)

Still, would recommend to dine alfresco as it’s prettier outside :-) We made reservations in advance as the restaurant’s usually fully booked.

For starters, we had the soup of the day (tomato & basil) and truffle mash potato. Highlight of our meal would be the Halia’s Singapore-Style Chilli Crab Spaghettini. The portions of pasta and crab meat were so generous, and their rendition of the chilli crab sauce was amazing as well. Our other main was another popular dish, the Paperbag Oven-baked Halibut Fillet. Although it was good, the halibut fillet wasn’t as impressive. I personally enjoyed the soy and ginger broth. Finished off with the toffee pudding for desserts, which we read was a “must order”, but didn’t think it was anything to shout about.

Overall, thumbs up for the service and atmosphere. Would consider returning again!

Was a little surprised by the use of soft tacos, which had a strong flour taste that overwhelmed the meat! These chimichurri chicken tacos ($17++ for 3) were otherwise wonderful - the cold salad contrasted against warm spicy chicken, which was tender and well flavoured.