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| FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 2019 | | G happenings life D5

FOOD Rebecca Lynne Tan straitstimesfood.com editor recommends PROMOTIONS MODERN SUSHI BAR AND HIGHBALL DEN Penang Classics At Edge IN STANLEY STREET Picks Chef de cuisine Howard Leong pays Chi Kinjo is the latest restaurant and bar by the team homage to his home town of Penang behind Sum Yi Tai and Mona Lounge in with a selection of street food that is and Eliza Cocktail Bar in . It has fun,

available during dinner for a limited Food relaxed and cheeky vibes with delicious eats and fabulous time at Pan Pacific ’s Edge. , which make for a great night out with friends Highlights include Mamak Chicken or after-work drinks with colleagues. and Penang-style . It serves only dinner and drinks for now, but come WHERE: Level 3 Pan Pacific Singapore, Monday, it will also be open for lunch – think modern bento 7 Raffles Boulevard MRT: Promenade boxes and large, flat sushi rolls called sushi sandwiches . WHEN: Till Jan 27, 6.30 - 10.30pm So far, I like everything I have tried. Its Ming Dynasty PRICE: $88++ an adult, $44 a child Tofu ($12) – housemade tofu with crunchy water chestnut (aged six to 12) TEL: 6826-8240 topped with a creamy century egg sauce, chunks of crab INFO: E-mail dining.ppsin@ and shredded century egg – is one of the best versions of panpacific.com this dish I have had. The aburi nigiri sushi ($12 for two sushi) – from Burger Number Five and foie gras to truffle scallop – are tasty little morsels At 25 Degrees that you will want to keep eating. There are also sushi rolls BAK CHOR MEE 25 Degrees Singapore has brought (right) with fillings such as spicy tuna ($16) and prawn STALL RELOCATES Burger Number Five from 25 Degrees tempura with mentai mayonnaise ($20). To my fellow bak chor mee lovers, Los Angeles, which is available till Expect a well-curated selection of sake and a wide I thought I had better get the word the end of next month. The towering range of highballs, including a shisho sake Shisho out: Lai Heng Mushroom Minced Roosevelt original features a juicy, Watermelon highball ($14) and a Gin & Ginger highball ($14), Meat has relocated from all-American beef patty, smoky made with Tanqueray, ginger, lime mint and ginger beer. Toa Payoh Lorong 6 to a coffee shop pastrami, melted baby Swiss cheese WHERE: Chi Kinjo, 29 Stanley Street MRT: Telok Ayer in Toa Payoh Lorong 4. and housemade Thousand Island OPEN: 5pm to 1am (Mondays to Saturdays), closed on The stall opened at its new sauce, stacked with onion rings and Sundays. The kitchen closes at 10pm (Mondays to location at the beginning of last held together by two brioche buns. Wednesdays) and 10.45pm (Thursdays to Saturdays) month. Compared with the previous WHERE: Level 1 Hotel G, 200 Middle location, this coffee shop is Road MRT: Bencoolen/Bugis surrounded by more greenery and WHEN: 11 - 3am (till Feb 28) is much cooler and breezier, even PRICE: $18++ TEL: 6809-7990 PHOTOS: CHI KINJO, REVAMPED ORCHARD CAFE on sunny days. INFO: facebook.com/25DegreesSG JANICE WONG, The Orchard Cafe at Orchard Hotel Singapore has been Although, perhaps it is REBECCA renovated. The interior is now sleeker and the food, more Singapore’s somewhat colder Home Chefs Cook-Out LYNNE TAN enticing. The international buffet spread boasts December -January weather that Two home chefs will battle it out to everything from and sushi to seafood and we ought to be thankful for. prepare a starter, a main course and double-boiled to Indian fare and Nonya kueh. Prices are still the same. They a . Diners get to watch, mingle The menu changes every day. When I dined there earlier start at $4 a bowl. and taste the dishes. Proceeds will go this week, there was Japanese wagyu ribeye steak at the I always ask for extra chilli with towards supporting underprivileged grill station, cooked a perfect medium-rare. It is the first my so that there is enough women in their back-to-work time I have had such good quality beef at a hotel buffet to coat every strand. The chilli here journeys with supporting lunch. is aromatic and mildly spicy. programmes run by Daughters of Another highlight is the section, which boasts Last week, I had bak chor mee tai Tomorrow. eight styles of sambal from sambal belachan to sambal mak or silver needle noodles. These WHERE: Cookyn Inc, HomeTeam hijau, made with green chillies. Eat them with the various short noodles, which resemble rats’ NS-JOM @ , 31 Ah Hood Road types of crackers. tails, absorb the full flavour of the MRT: Toa Payoh WHEN: Thu, 6 - 10pm CNY BY JANICE WONG Glico’s strawberry Pocky pretzels. The live noodle station’s daily offering ranges from bak chilli-vinegar sauce. I slurped up PRICE: $194.69 a person; tickets & It can be tough to decide which Here, each love letter roll is filled with chor mee to Penang curry noodles, with Thai boat noodles every tail. details at kitchenmove.eventbrite.sg snacks are worth a generous amount of strawberry and tom yum noodles soon to be included on the list. WHERE: Lai Heng Mushroom the calories. This year, I cannot get chocolate. The buffet may sometimes include a deliciously simple Minced Meat Noodle, 01-611 CHINESE NEW YEAR enough of the cookies ($25 The snacks are available while dish of noodles tossed in scallion oil that goes great with Block 73 Toa Payoh Lorong 4 a jar with 40 cookies) by chef stocks last, until Feb 19. the daily roast meats selection, supplied by MRT: Toa Payoh OPEN: 8am to 4pm, Swensen’s Fortune 18 Yu Sheng, Janice Wong, who runs an WHERE: Janice Wong Singapore at restaurant Hua Ting, which is at the same hotel. closed on Wednesdays Tong Tong Qiang eponymous patisserie and B1-K28 Paragon, 290 ; The soft-serve ice cream station churns out flavours INFO: www.facebook.com/ Swensen’s has brought back its chocolaterie. and B1-48 Raffles City, 252 North such as Horlicks and pandan kaya. Help yourself to laihengmmmm Fortune 18 Yu Sheng and introduced The cookies crumble and melt in Bridge Road MRT: Orchard/City Hall sprinkles, chocolate chips, cookie crumble and the works. a new celebratory ice cream cake your mouth. I love the salty OPEN: Paragon, 10am to 9pm daily; WHERE: The Orchard Cafe, Orchard Hotel Singapore, called Tong Tong Qiang. The Fortune savouriness too. I finished four of Raffles City, 10am to 10pm daily. Both 442 Orchard Road MRT: Orchard OPEN: 6 to 10.30am daily 18 Yu Sheng ($23.90 for dine-in for these cookies in one sitting. shops close at 6pm on Feb 4 and are (breakfast), noon to 2.30pm daily (lunch), 6 to 10pm daily two to four; $36.90 for takeaway for The child in me also likes the closed on Feb 5 INFO: Order online (dinner) PRICE: $32 (breakfast), $58 (weekday lunch), four to six) comprises 18 ingredients strawberry chocolate love letters at www.janicewong.online, e-mail $62 (weekend lunch), $78 (dinner from Mondays to such as fresh greens and pomelo, ($18) – a giant, fancier and more [email protected] or Thursdays), $88 (dinner on Fridays and weekends) preserved white and brown melon, sophisticated inside-out version of go to www.janicewong.com.sg TEL: 6734-7766 INFO: www.orchardhotel.com.sg crispy wonton skin, slivers and plum sauce. The Tong Tong Qiang Neapolitan-flavoured ice cream cake (1kg, $68.80 for dine-in or takeaway) features WHERE (MRT): 01-1107, 203 Toa Payoh The Celebration Set features dishes Turn MRT: Orchard WHEN: Mon - The Sashimi Yu Sheng Platter ($38++ and dinner over three days from a lion head made with fondant. North (Braddell); 01-140, 136 such as braised codfish soup with Feb 19, 11.30am - 3.30pm, 6 - 10.30pm to $68++) includes ikura and sashimi. Chinese New Year’s Eve. Dishes for the WHERE: Swensen’s or Earle Swensen’s North Avenue 3 (Bedok); conpoy and crab meat and king PRICE: Set menus: $288++ - $988++; WHERE: B1-1310 The Plaza, 7500A buffet include roasted duck and pork outlets islandwide WHEN: Till Feb 19 B1-K10 (Woodlands) prawn fried with golden salted egg, selected a la carte dishes $16.80++ - Beach Road MRT: Nicoll Highway/ belly; and pan-fried dumpling with PRICE: $23.90 - $68.80 INFO: Go to WHEN: 10am - 9pm (Toa Payoh North), $48++ TEL: 6737-3435 ginger and black vinegar. swensens.com.sg to buy online while the Reunion Set has dishes like Bugis WHEN: 11.30am - 2.30pm, till 9.30pm (Bedok), till 10pm live Boston lobster steamed with INFO: jumboseafood.com.sg 6 - 10pm PRICE: $38++ - $198++ WHERE: Lobby level, Parkroyal on (Causeway Point) PRICE: $8.80 - minced garlic and glass vermicelli; TEL: 9838-8209 Pickering, 3 Upper Pickering Street Sunlife Pineapple Tarts, MRT: Chinatown WHEN & PRICE: Noon $18.80 INFO: E-mail and whole chicken stuffed with fresh Uni Gallery’s Yu Sheng Platters INFO: facebook.com/UniGallerySG Almond Sticks - 2.30pm, 6.30 - 10.30pm; Today - [email protected] mushrooms in pumpkin broth. Chef Sunlife Durian Puffs & has Uni Gallery has come up with two new Feb 19: lunch $68++ - $98++ (adult)/ goodies for Chinese New Year. Its recommendations available only at yusheng platters. The Uni & Caviar Feast Of Abundance, $48++ - $58++ (child), dinner $88++ Premium Pineapple Tarts ($8.80 for Jumbo Ion Reunion Sets this outlet include Live Alaskan Crab Sashimi Yu Sheng ($128++ to $198++) Royal Reunion At Lime (adult)/$58++ (child); Feb 4 - 6: 12 pieces; $18.80 for 28 pieces) and Prices for the Chinese New Year set Cooked Three Ways ($23.80++for features Canadian uni and Polanco Have a month-long Feast Of lunch $78++/$48++, dinner $98++ - Almond Sticks ($12.80 for 15 pieces) menus at Jumbo Seafood Ion Orchard 100g); and Crispy Fried Cod Fish with caviar, with a dose of ikura and Abundance at Parkroyal on $128++/$58++ - $78++ are available at its outlets and online range from $288++ (six courses for Nonya Sauce ($22++). sashimi, such as salmon, kampachi Pickering’s Lime. The restaurant is TEL: 6809-8899 INFO: E-mail (sunlifepastries.com). four) to $968++ (eight courses for 10). WHERE: 04-09 Ion Orchard, 2 Orchard (amberjack) and mekajiki (swordfish). serving a Royal Reunion buffet lunch [email protected]

BROUGHT TO YOU BY 01/ S.E.A. FOCUS: A SPOTLIGHT 04/ ORTHODOX 07/ OF WAX, DYES AND LABOUR ON SOUTHEAST ASIA Embark on personal journeys of faith and See traditional batik in a new light at this Experience South-east Asia’s thriving art tradition through the eyes of 12 emerging exhibition curated by Fajrina Razak which ecology at the inaugural edition of S.E.A. young artists. ORTHODOX is an art exhibition features the works of seven Singapore-based Focus, an initiative by STPI – Creative curated by Nicole Phua and Liza Markus, artists — illustrators, a ceramist, a wood- Workshop and Gallery. This takes the featuring installations, live performance art, based artist, a photo-based artist, form of a curated boutique art fair with video art, sculptures and paintings. a performance artist and a print maker. presentations by 25 leading local and international galleries within a special WHERE Your MOTHER Gallery WHERE Malay Heritage Centre pop-up structure in Gillman Barracks. 91 Hindoo Road, Singapore 209126/ 85 Sultan Gate, Singapore 198501 Coda Culture, WHERE Gillman Barracks Pavilion (Carpark B) 5001 Beach Rd, #05-05, Singapore 199588 WHEN Jan 19 to Feb 9 9 Lock Road, Singapore 108937 Tue to Sun: 10am – 6pm WHEN From Jan 19 to Feb 2/Jan 20 to Feb 3 WHEN Jan 24 to 27 Daily: Noon – 8pm/Daily: Noon – 8.30pm ADMISSION Free for Singapore Citizens and Thu: 3pm – 7pm, Fri: 3pm – 10pm Permanent Residents Sat, Sun: 11 am – 7pm ADMISSION Free

ADMISSION Ticketed 08/ OF OTHER PLACES 05/DANCE OF A HUMBLE ATHEIST Of Other Places is an interdisciplinary Immerse in the multidisciplinary installation by exhibition curated by Dr Wang Ruobing 02/ < > Toh Hun Ping which explores ideas relating to address the evolution of public places SIM LIM SQUARE ART RESIDENCY to death, faith, afterlife, nature, consciousness in Singapore and explore the relationship Sim Lim Square will become more than just and time. There will be a clay sculpting and between people and places. Attend dialogue an electronic goods mall over a three-week animation workshop, as well as a panel sessions with artists, writers, architects, residency that aims to provide a space for discussion on experimental cinema. scientists and a guided tour by Dr Chua Ai Lin. ongoing conversations and investigations between the artists and diverse communities WHERE Objectifs WHERE The Substation connected by the mall. Enjoy the full residency 155 Middle Road, Singapore 188977 45 Armenian Street, Singapore 179936 experience by engaging in conversations with artists, joining panel sessions and WHEN Till Feb 17 WHEN Jan 19 to Feb 3 going on guided tours. Tue to Sat: Noon – 7pm, Sun: Noon – 4pm Tue to Sun: Noon – 8pm

WHERE Sim Lim Square, #06–53/31 ADMISSION Free ADMISSION Free 1 Canal Road, Singapore 188504

WHEN Till Jan 27 06/ MEMORIES OF 09/ THE MESHMINDS Open studio: Noon – 6pm daily FOUNDATION AND LASALLE Memories of Singapore River is a Chinese COLLEGE OF THE ARTS PRESENTS: ADMISSION Free documentary fi lm with English subtitles. Go ARTX TECH FOR GOOD back to simpler times through paintings and Art x Tech For Good is an immersive art conversations with painters Lim Tze Peng, exhibition focusing on sustainability of people 03/ HOME(WORK) Tan Choh Tee and Low Puay Hua, as well as and the planet. Enjoy workshops, talks and Explore questions of domesticity and labour other Singaporeans who lived by the river. performances featuring mashups with VR Distinctive, diverse and through this community-centric installation There will also be outdoor sketch sessions by painting, 360 fi lms and 3D printing. delightful — the seventh edition that turns everyday domestic objects into Singapore Watercolour Society and Urban WHAT’S works of art. Explore different perspectives Sketchers Singapore at Singapore River. WHERE Roger&Sons of Singapore Art Week has on housework through workshops and an 115 King George’s Avenue, Singapore 208561 exhibition by various artists set in a home WHERE Screenings: Asian Civilisations something for everyone environment. Museum/Onboard Singapore River Cruise WHEN Jan 19 to 27 Exhibition: The Fullerton Hotel Mon to Thu: 11 am – 8pm, Fri to Sun:11am till late NEW FOR A familiar — even iconic — name in the Singapore WHERE National Design Centre Talk: Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre visual arts calendar, Singapore Art Week (SAW) is back 111 Middle Road, Singapore 188969 ADMISSION Free with surprises for everyone, young or old, art enthusiast WHEN Jan 19 to Feb 2 or casual onlooker. From Jan 19 to 27, art will take WHEN Jan 19 to 27 Refer to artweek.sg for more details For the full listings of SAW 2019, visit artweek.sg over the city as the festival puts up more than 100 Daily: 9am – 9pm Singapore Art Week is a joint initiative by SAW 2019 visual arts events. Experience art differently this SAW ADMISSION Singapore River Cruise: Ticketed National Arts Council, Singapore Tourism Board season with: ADMISSION Free Other Programmes: Free and Singapore Economic Development Board.