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Not sure what sorcery went into this, but it was so yummy.
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It features 3 large, fresh, meaty crabs, with sweet savoury flavour, coated in a creamy savoury sweet gravy made with secret ingredients. A favourite of many.
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Invited tasting.
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Diamond Kitchen
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This features 3 large, fresh, meaty crabs, with sweet savoury flavour, coated in a thick dry black pepper gravy.
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This was excellent, with robust spice savoury salty flavour, and a lingering spicy burn from the black pepper.
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Invited tasting.
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Diamond Kitchen
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This has a generous amount of earthy sweet pumpkin puree gravy, whose thick velvety texture complements the wobbly soft silken tofu beancurd, and imparts it delicious flavour.
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Garnished with bouncy deshelled prawns / shrimp, tender crab meat, and chewy dried scallops, which lend mild salty savoury sweet notes to the dish. Yum.
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Invited tasting.
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Diamond Kitchen
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Formerly known as "7-Up Pork Ribs", but now with a splash of champagne for marketing, this still uses the 7-Up soft drink to marinade the pork ribs (along with a sweet and sour sauce), resulting in it being tender, juicy, and succulent.
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They've taken the effort to debone it completely, making it easy to eat.
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With bold sweet savoury sour flavour that is light and addictive, this was a real treat.
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Invited tasting.
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Diamond Kitchen
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This is a combo soup / broth and vegetable dish.
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Filled with tender Chinese spinach and a trifecta of eggs (regular eggs, salted eggs, and century eggs), which infuses the soup / broth with robust vegetal eggy sweet salty savoury flavour.
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Warm and comforting, a soulful dish.
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Invited tasting.
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Diamond Kitchen
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Addictive nuggets of round little fried cheddar cheese balls, coated in a crisp batter, seasoned with thyme and honey.
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You get the crisp crunch, the bright burst of floral herbal sweet notes, followed by the salty savoury cheesy flavour within.
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So yummy, we could just keep popping these with a good movie.
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The Parlour Mirage
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This is a delightful rice bowl.
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Over a bed of fluffy soft sticky Japanese white rice with grainy sweet flavour, is laid medium rare chunks of Hokubee meltique beef.
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Meltique beef is a type of beef which has fats introduced into lean meat in order to give the appearance and texture of marbling (via the traditional French culinary method 'Pique').
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The beef is chewy and tender and juicy, with bold meaty fatty savoury salty flavour.
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Accompanied by strips of crisp shredded pickled daikon radish with sour sweet vegetal flavour, and a runny onsen egg with eggy sweet flavour whose golden yolk oozes out to coat everything in a silky smooth sheen.
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The Parlour Mirage
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Traditionally a type of gelato, the version here is reintepreted instead as a savoury appetizer, though it could adequately pass as a dessert too. Confusing!.
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It's a glorious mess of burrata cheese, seasonal fruits (we had torched persimmon and caramelised peach), red radish, corn kernels or asparagus, and honeyed mixed nuts.
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With contrasting crunchy juicy soft tender chewy textures, and bright floral sweet vegetal fruity earthy nutty flavours, this was actually rather tasty and pleasing on the palate.
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A bit more honey or maple syrup, and the use of sweeter fruits, would make this a dessert.
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Invited tasting.
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The Parlour Mirage
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This was served in tasting portions; I understand the regular portion sizes are larger.
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The Pita (SGD $3) was soft and fluffy, with a spongy texture that picks up the dips easily, and has natural bready sweet flavour.
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The Fried Mantou (SGD $3) is crisp on the outside, spongy on the inside, with a deep bready savoury flavour.
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Loved the delicious Grilled Sweet Butter Corn (SGD $3), the corn kernels being juicy with smoky vegetal grainy sweet flavour.
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The Hummus (SGD $3) was excellent too, with its creamy grainy texture and deep earthy sweet savoury flavour.
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The Guacamole (SGD $3) was creamy and thick, with bright vegetal sweet flavour.
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The Parlour Mirage
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The Parlour Mirage is a craft beer gastrobar, art workshop, and music recording studio all-in-one.
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Located in the Farrer Park area on a quiet stretch of Owen Road, The Parlour Mirage is owned and operated by The Music Parlour Singapore, a music recording company that aims to champion Singaporean musicians.
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With 12 craft beers on tap, most of which are rotated seasonally, The Parlour Mirage is a great place for drinks and bites.
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The Parlour Mirage
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A premium, off-menu special.
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This luxurious dish features a large, meaty crab, filled with fresh roe and juicy succulent crab meat.
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With delicate clean-tasting sweet savoury flavour, the crab has been stewed over the thin silky bee hoon, imparting it with rich flavour.
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The result is an incredible crab bee hoon dish unlike other versions elsewhere, with the key difference being the crab roe which infuses the noodles.
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Luxurious and delicious, though expensive.
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Spring Court Restaurant
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The yam ring itself is large and crisp on the exterior, soft and tender on the interior, with a mild grainy earthy sweet savoury flavour to the yam.
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It's stacked high with a medley of fillings, including bouncy button mushrooms, tender carrots, crunchy celery, crisp bell peppers, firm cashew nuts, soft white onions, and juicy shrimp.
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With a pleasing vegetal sweet savoury salty earthy nutty combination of flavours, this was so delightful and satisfying.
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Spring Court Restaurant
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