Peranakan

It was nice walking in Dempsey, such a nice neighborhood, and eating in Candlenut: a one michelin star restaurent which is specialisee in Peranakan food. It is very interesting to tset this food, which is a bit different rhat what you can eat in all singapore, bit I was disappointed about the service: for a sample of different plates, they serve everything at the same time so you eat everything cold.... moreover some of the dishes were spicy, they coud have warned us before. Otherwise the appetizers were good and the desserts very interesting with new flavours.

I personally feel that buah keluak is one of the most representative of Peranakan food and I think that their buah keluak gives quite a good introduction for beginners. The taste of buah keluak(bitter nut) is an acquired taste. But their version is a lot milder, where it is stir fried w a lot more minced meat and you barely taste the buah keluak. The curry that comes with it is nice with a slight Assam flavour. But if you were thinking of trying the otah, forget abt it and go for the ngoh hiang instead! One plus point is that they don't charge service charge here!