Surrey Hills Grocer (The Woodleigh Mall)

The menu here had less variety than the other outlets. In the end, we decided to get the basic big breakfast. It comes with thai sausage, bacon, roasted cherry tomatos, portobello mushroom, 1 pc of pancake and salad. The sausage was spicy with some spices in it. I would have prefer normal sausage over it. The salad was well seasoned. I like the tomatoes were warm and sweet at the same time. The mushroom was cooked till very soft and wasnt dry at all. The pancake was slightly disappointing as i find it a bit dry.

Ordered the National Day special menu. The dish is served with tagliatelle pasta which makes it look like mee pok. You can opt for spicy or non spicy. It tasted really like a ba chor mee so it makes feel like it is overpriced. They also put pork lard in it. The pork slices were very tender and not too fatty also. If u want some atas bcm, u should give it a try.

We’re here at Surrey Hills Grocer to try their newest collaboration menu with renowned personality and Masterchef Singapore judge, Chef Damian D’Silva! This limited time menu aims to showcase the essence of Singapore’s rich culinary heritage 🇸🇬✨
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This collaboration menu surely impressed us! 🫶🏻🤩 Beyond the superb taste, the menu truly commemorates Singapore’s heritage foods, and we felt that each dish really embodied our Peranakan culture. Chef Damian D’Silva’s dishes will be available at Surrey Hill’s Woodleigh Mall outlet until 30th April

Chef Damian's take on Nasi Lemak is not to be overlooked. Chef shared that the rice was soaked overnight and steamed dry, before adding ginger, pandan leaf, and coconut milk to be steamed again. The effort and labour to incorporate these flavours and aroma into the rice was evident. The Nasi Lemak was fluffy, light, and delightfully flavourful and lemak, much unlike the wet and oily ones we know of. We took spoonful after spoonful of the rice - it’s a nasi lemak so good you can have it with just sambal (how Chef likes to have it too), and we loved it so much that we had seconds!

This dish featured fresh prawns cooked with sambal, shrimp paste, and calamansi for a sour finish. The prawns were sweet and juicy, and elevated by that addictive sambal sauce which had us imploring Chef to divulge the secret ingredient. The sambal sauce was sweet, mildly spicy, but really aromatic - the combination of spices would almost dance across your mouth. Pairing this with a scoop of that Nasi Lemak was perfect!

This was a classic Malay delicacy consisting of chicken cooked with a fragrant paste in a luxurious coconut gravy. The marination was done to a tee! The chicken was tender and gently lemak, yet not greasy or surfeiting.