Back in the days, his Peranakan grandmother and mother would spend hours and hours in the kitchen, preparing everything from scratch, just for that one single celebratory feast for friends and relatives on New Year’s Day. Available exclusively from the 4 to 19 of February, these unique dishes will be a trip down memory lane for Chef Damian as he puts his heart and soul into preparing them.
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The Peranakan Prawn Salad ($20++) was one of the first few dishes that were served and the spiciness was as fiery as it looks. This appetizer sees Chef Damian using a chilli plum sauce and lime juice mixture over poached prawns and fresh Chinese lettuce leaves. Next up was the Sayur Beremi ($16++), which is a family of the Portulaca leafy vegetables that’s served as a salad with a dressing of prawn stock, coconut milk, chillis, shrimp@paste and lime juice to give it a refreshing taste. Another lesser-known dish is the Sayur Kailo (Pictured, $32++), a harvested gourd that has a drumstick shape of a bean pod. Excellent in complementing the depth of flavours in the base sauce, the sayur kailo is slow-cooked with pork ribs in a rich curry with coconut milk. This was my favourite dish of the night as every bite is crying out for a scoop of white rice to go with it.
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