Sundays

Oh hello new Mexican joint on my radar, your food is worth returning for. While I doubt the taco wraps are made in house, they are tasty. The fish tacos here are also to die for with nicely battered fish fillets, fresh slaw and chipotle aioli sauce.
Your mains of pork ribs had slightly tough meat but otherwise the flavors from the sauce made up tremendously.
Cheese quesadillas are difficult to go wrong with and yours here are in my dining companion’s words “like cheese prata”; a healthier version I corrected with a lot more cheese and a slightly discordant rich sour cream dip.

We come back again and again for Latin American food, the menu is extensive and soft tacos reliable. Today I wanted something light and went for a “cooked” salad in the Verduras a la Plancha.
If you love cassava chips, you would adore the yucas fritas that are soft mashed cassava balls with a crispy cost - utterly satisfying I wish there was more. This is now a hot favourite beside the crunch worthy patata bravas here that are like elevated freshly cooked potato chips.
P.s: each yucas fritas order comes with 6 pieces, 2 have been eagerly stolen and in the stomachs of my dining companions before the photo could be taken.

We come back again and again for Latin American food, the menu is extensive and soft tacos reliable. Today I wanted something light and went for a “cooked” salad in the Verduras a la Plancha.
If you love cassava chips, you would adore the yucas fritas that are soft mashed cassava balls with a crispy cost - utterly satisfying I wish there was more. This is now a hot favourite beside the crunch worthy patata bravas here that are like elevated freshly cooked potato chips.
P.s: each yucas fritas order comes with 6 pieces, 2 have been eagerly stolen and in the stomachs of my dining companions before the photo could be taken.

So a colleague quipped that little farms had the best most expensive fish & chips he had of late, so I was intrigued to check it out.
When the plate arrived I was immediately brought back to my time in London because of the mushy peas looking smashed edamame and chunky chips. He was right that the battered locally-caught Barramundi fillet was divine. While $30 for fish & chips is definitely not cheap it is worth ordering again :)
We also shared a salad to balance out the meal which was hearty yet refreshing, adding blueberries to a salad is rare but it surprisingly worked well. You also get half an avocado which I reckoned comes from the grocer so you can help your self to more if you’d like to bring some home.

So a colleague quipped that little farms had the best most expensive fish & chips he had of late, so I was intrigued to check it out.
When the plate arrived I was immediately brought back to my time in London because of the mushy peas looking smashed edamame and chunky chips. He was right that the battered locally-caught Barramundi fillet was divine. While $30 for fish & chips is definitely not cheap it is worth ordering again :)
We also shared a salad to balance out the meal which was hearty yet refreshing, adding blueberries to a salad is rare but it surprisingly worked well. You also get half an avocado which I reckoned comes from the grocer so you can help your self to more if you’d like to bring some home.

After our dinner at SUP on a Saturday evening, Dad declared “we are coming here again when I need a good pasta fix”.
I had no reason to object when 1) south union park’s food is great 2) there’s Burpplebeyond and 3) we stay in the east.
Today we also had the seasonal special of oysters with ponzu sauce, which were slurping good.
Given how the team behind SUP has expanded to sister brands like eleven strands and the new mia, you can trust the guys here have done many things right.

On a random Saturday evening the family decided to #treatyoselfs with a dinner at the masses. Easily this comes in as one of the better dinners of 2022, the fusion fine dining like dishes here are stellar.
Turning any non-vegetables eaters into converts is this purple cabbage dish topped with scallop meat and ikura, in pool of dashi beurre blanc with dashes of ikura green oil and prawn head butter. Can I hear someone say fancy deliciousness?
And if you’ve not tried charsiew lamb you get to try exactly that here, lamb ribs meat seasoned with the familiar Chinese rub.

Nicely segueing to some show-stopping mains, my heart leaped in joy at the Quail & Foie Gras Pithivier. As if executing flawless puff pastry sheets are not commendable enough you get tender quail meat and the king of indulgence in foie gras; paired with tangy apple balsamico to cut through the richness. I cannot forget this dish.
We also had the Braised Claypot Angus Beef Cheek and Wagyu Tri Tip (160g) for the beef loving males of the family, we all agreed you get a bang for your buck with these dishes.
Because we stuffed ourselves heartily with homemade bread starters and an order of the wok hey rice noodles, there was no space for desserts but i am looking forward to a return visit for part 2 of a great meal.

On a random Saturday evening the family decided to #treatyoselfs with a dinner at the masses. Easily this comes in as one of the better dinners of 2022, the fusion fine dining like dishes here are stellar.
Turning any non-vegetables eaters into converts is this purple cabbage dish topped with scallop meat and ikura, in pool of dashi beurre blanc with dashes of ikura green oil and prawn head butter. Can I hear someone say fancy deliciousness?
And if you’ve not tried charsiew lamb you get to try exactly that here, lamb ribs meat seasoned with the familiar Chinese rub.

Nicely segueing to some show-stopping mains, my heart leaped in joy at the Quail & Foie Gras Pithivier. As if executing flawless puff pastry sheets are not commendable enough you get tender quail meat and the king of indulgence in foie gras; paired with tangy apple balsamico to cut through the richness. I cannot forget this dish.
We also had the Braised Claypot Angus Beef Cheek and Wagyu Tri Tip (160g) for the beef loving males of the family, we all agreed you get a bang for your buck with these dishes.
Because we stuffed ourselves heartily with homemade bread starters and an order of the wok hey rice noodles, there was no space for desserts but i am looking forward to a return visit for part 2 of a great meal.

On a random Saturday evening the family decided to #treatyoselfs with a dinner at the masses. Easily this comes in as one of the better dinners of 2022, the fusion fine dining like dishes here are stellar.
Turning any non-vegetables eaters into converts is this purple cabbage dish topped with scallop meat and ikura, in pool of dashi beurre blanc with dashes of ikura green oil and prawn head butter. Can I hear someone say fancy deliciousness?
And if you’ve not tried charsiew lamb you get to try exactly that here, lamb ribs meat seasoned with the familiar Chinese rub.

Nicely segueing to some show-stopping mains, my heart leaped in joy at the Quail & Foie Gras Pithivier. As if executing flawless puff pastry sheets are not commendable enough you get tender quail meat and the king of indulgence in foie gras; paired with tangy apple balsamico to cut through the richness. I cannot forget this dish.
We also had the Braised Claypot Angus Beef Cheek and Wagyu Tri Tip (160g) for the beef loving males of the family, we all agreed you get a bang for your buck with these dishes.
Because we stuffed ourselves heartily with homemade bread starters and an order of the wok hey rice noodles, there was no space for desserts but i am looking forward to a return visit for part 2 of a great meal.

On a random Saturday evening the family decided to #treatyoselfs with a dinner at the masses. Easily this comes in as one of the better dinners of 2022, the fusion fine dining like dishes here are stellar.
Turning any non-vegetables eaters into converts is this purple cabbage dish topped with scallop meat and ikura, in pool of dashi beurre blanc with dashes of ikura green oil and prawn head butter. Can I hear someone say fancy deliciousness?
And if you’ve not tried charsiew lamb you get to try exactly that here, lamb ribs meat seasoned with the familiar Chinese rub.

Nicely segueing to some show-stopping mains, my heart leaped in joy at the Quail & Foie Gras Pithivier. As if executing flawless puff pastry sheets are not commendable enough you get tender quail meat and the king of indulgence in foie gras; paired with tangy apple balsamico to cut through the richness. I cannot forget this dish.
We also had the Braised Claypot Angus Beef Cheek and Wagyu Tri Tip (160g) for the beef loving males of the family, we all agreed you get a bang for your buck with these dishes.
Because we stuffed ourselves heartily with homemade bread starters and an order of the wok hey rice noodles, there was no space for desserts but i am looking forward to a return visit for part 2 of a great meal.

Caught myself almost becoming an addict to scrolling on Chope but it has led me to discover that a tapas restaurant has opened shop in my humble neighbour, yes the deserted east of Singapore: Pasir Ris. It is still peculiar to find such a cuisine in the heartlands so I told mum we should walk over to try it. The
menu is interesting with some Asian influence, think patata bravas with a sambal sauce. There are more traditional tapas like the bikini, roasted octopus and Brussels sprout we had; they were nice but each with a flaw. For example I joked with mum that the sandwich bread felt like toasted gardenia white bread and the octopus was tenderised with a nice texture but didn’t feel fresh. Don’t get me wrong gardenia bread is not bad but my spoilt palate is more accustomed to daily baked bread. Also the sweetened brussel sprout was a nice rendition but was swimming in a small pool of oil at the bottom.

Mum suggested we give the mains a chance with the full family to form our conclusive verdict of the place. I wonder which weekend that will be.

Caught myself almost becoming an addict to scrolling on Chope but it has led me to discover that a tapas restaurant has opened shop in my humble neighbour, yes the deserted east of Singapore: Pasir Ris. It is still peculiar to find such a cuisine in the heartlands so I told mum we should walk over to try it. The
menu is interesting with some Asian influence, think patata bravas with a sambal sauce. There are more traditional tapas like the bikini, roasted octopus and Brussels sprout we had; they were nice but each with a flaw. For example I joked with mum that the sandwich bread felt like toasted gardenia white bread and the octopus was tenderised with a nice texture but didn’t feel fresh. Don’t get me wrong gardenia bread is not bad but my spoilt palate is more accustomed to daily baked bread. Also the sweetened brussel sprout was a nice rendition but was swimming in a small pool of oil at the bottom.

Mum suggested we give the mains a chance with the full family to form our conclusive verdict of the place. I wonder which weekend that will be.