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| FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2019 | THE STRAITS TIMES | happenings life D5

FOOD PROMOTIONS Tan Hsueh Yun LA PIZZAIOLA Editor I waved the white flag at the newly opened La Pizzaiola at Link@896 in Dunearn Road. You know, the building

Enthaising Siam At Picks recommends that used to be Sime Darby Centre? Sheraton Towers The restaurant was opened by brothers Loris and Sheraton Towers Singapore This week’s picks are all food I do not Giuseppe Massimini, who own two other La Pizzaiola welcomes guest chef Surasak

Food eat often – pizza, bread, , fried restaurants, in Jalan Riang and Kalidasa Avenue; and Pholdeeyiam (Chef Oui) from Bangkok mee. Ristorante Pietrasanta in Fusionopolis Way. Marriott Marquis Queen’s Park to I am not a masochist, denying Their new baby, I fear, is going to see a lot of me. present an epicurean spread of Thai myself carbs, which I think is one of I will be the one eating a Quattro Formaggi pizza fare at The Dining Room. Signatures the greatest pleasures of life. It is just ($21.90, far left) with gusto. No, I am not sharing. include Chu Chee Pla Kra Pong that there are other things I want to Mozzarella, gorgonzola, parmesan and smoked (deep-fried sea bass fillet with eat lots of – fish, especially the raw scamorza cheeses go on the pizza and there is the creamy red curry); Guay Tiew Nua kind, offal, and as much good beef as perfect amount of each. I love how they are generous Toon (stewed beef ); I can consume without passing out. with the gorgonzola because it gives the pizza Moo Sam Chan Thord Nam Pla (crispy But sometimes, a carb thing is so exquisite funk. belly with fish sauce); and Khao compelling, I surrender, like the The crust, made with organic flour, is a thing of Soi Gai (coconut curry offerings at these places. beauty. Blistered in the oven, crisp and light, it does not with chicken). For one night only, flop in the middle. Chef Oui will also hold a cooking Because I always order a Quattro Stagioni ($21.90, demonstration where he will whip up left) at every pizza place I go to, I get one here too. It classic Thai dishes including Gaeng translates to four seasons in English. The artichokes Keow Wan Gai (green curry) and Som are for spring, the tomatoes for summer, mushrooms Tum Gai Yang (papaya salad with for autumn and ham for winter. The one here is well grilled chicken). worth ordering– you cannot go wrong with these WHERE: Sheraton Towers Singapore, toppings. 39 Scotts Road MRT: Newton But it is the decadent four cheese one I yearn for. WHEN: Oct 16 - 23, noon - 3pm & I hope the next time I go, the Special ($12.90) 7 - 10pm; cooking demonstration: is on the menu. It is pizza dough spread with Nutella, Oct 19, 5 - 7pm thrown in the oven until brown and crisp, drizzled with PRICE: Lunch: $58++ (adult), $29++ caramel and topped with ice cream. (child aged six to 12); dinner: $78++ This is what carb dreams are made of. (adult), $39++ (child aged six to 12); WHERE: La Pizzaiola, 01-10 Link@896, 896 Dunearn cooking demonstration: $88++ Road MRT: King Albert Park TEL: 6484 -8896 TEL: 6839-5621 OPEN: 11.30am to 2.30pm, 5.30 to 10pm daily INFO: E-mail hediningroom@ INFO: www.lapizzaiola.com.sg sheratonsingapore.com; book a slot for cooking demonstration at shopatsheraton.oddle.me

Penang Feast At Feast @ East Buffet Restaurant is influenced by cultures from the Chinese, Indian, FINE DINING BAKERY The most fun can be had pairing the bread with the Malay and Peranakan communities. I do not know about you, but the best part of dining in a different accompaniments. I love the walnut bread with Savour iconic Penang dishes such as Joel Robuchon restaurant is the mind-boggling butter and honey, the focaccia with the avocado, and the assam laksa, and char selection of bread. baguette with butter, which I wish were salted. The kway teow . Baker Akira Maekochi, who used to make them for the cheeses are perfect with the mini croissant and the WHERE: Level 3 Grand Mercure late French chef’s now-defunct restaurants in Resorts shokupan. Singapore Roxy, 50 East Coast Road World Sentosa, has been running a bakery in UE Square There are two kinds of baguette ($3.50) – blanc and MRT: Paya Lebar/Eunos called Fine Dining Bakery since April. rouge. The blanc is meant to go with white wine, the WHEN: Oct 4 - Nov 3, Mon - Sun: There is no jaw-dropping bread cart but the wares are rouge with red. It is an unnecessary affectation, noon - 2.30pm (lunch) & 6 - 10pm good. And there is a terrific egg salad sando ($8.50). It is I think. The rouge is a little more robust, with a (dinner); Sat & public holidays: 3 - 5pm made with the bakery’s signature shokupan – the slightly more pronounced sour tang, but the (high tea) softest, most fluffy white bread that will not stick to the difference is marginal. PRICE: Lunch: $49++ (adult), $25++ roof of your mouth. The egg salad is a little too cold so let What I do love, however, is the full-sized (child), $40 nett (senior citizen), $35 it sit a while, swaddled in its paper wrap, so you can fully croissant ($3.80), so perfectly laminated I lose nett (Merdeka Generation/Pioneer appreciate the magic mingling of egg and butter. myself in the perfect folds. If Magic Of The citizen); dinner: $55++ (adult), $28++ When I drop in mid-morning, the place is filled with Moon ($2.50) is available, buy it. The name (child), $42 nett (senior citizen), $38 Japanese housewives. I feel like an interloper at first and comes from the Hokkaido flour used to make nett (Merdeka Generation/Pioneer then suddenly appreciate how I am instantly the dough. The result is bread that is citizen); high tea: $28++ (adult), $14++ transported to Tokyo. delightfully chewy, but also pillowy. (child) During my mental vacation, I also order the Selected WHERE: Fine Dining Bakery, 01-59 UE Square, TEL: 6340-5665 Breads Set ($16.80, right), which comes with eight lightly 207 River Valley Road MRT: Fort Canning INFO: E-mail [email protected] toasted slices of different breads, parma ham or smoked OPEN: 8.30am to 5pm (Wednesdays to salmon, unsalted butter, honey, cheese and mashed Mondays), closed on Tuesdays Lunch & Dinner Buffet At avocado; and a small soup and salad. INFO: www.facebook.com/finediningbakery Window On The Park This halal buffet will showcase the rich gastronomic cultures of Singapore, Asia and the world. Tuck into freshly shucked oysters (dinner only), poached and Singapore LIK MING TOA PAYOH LAKSA FRIED HOKKIEN MEE AT fruit and kueh at DIY Laksa, and black GOLDEN MILE FOOD CENTRE stations. A live noodle station will carrot are hawker dishes I look Like with laksa, I have become serve laksa, prawn and mee forward to eating, mostly because I disenchanted with my former go-to rebus. The buffet spread features do not eat them often. Once, maybe place for fried . The Japanese, Moroccan, Chinese, twice, a year. noodles have become too soupy, the Indonesian and Indian . Some years, I do not indulge dish lacks wok hei, and the opeh leaf WHERE: Level 2, Holiday Inn because I cannot find good enough on which it is served does not make Singapore Orchard City Centre, versions. By good enough, I really up for the complete lack of oomph. 11 Cavenagh Road MRT: Somerset mean sinful enough. I complain loud and long to WHEN: Till Nov 30, noon - 2.30pm & So when it comes to laksa, it will friends, and one of them suggests I 6.30 - 10pm daily PRICE: Lunch: have to have a layer of orange oil go have the one at Golden Mile Food $65++, dinner: $78++ (Mon - Thu) or floating on top, taste rich with Centre. This is a dry-style Hokkien $96++ (Fri - Sun); prices are for a coconut cream and the bowl must mee. I approach warily. one-for-one offer for two be filled with big fat cockles. If I want looks like fine gravel and is used to The stall is just called Fried on the plate. Because the stall has TEL: 6733-8333 to sin, I will sin big, thank you. make the gravy. Although not crazy Hokkien Prawn Mee. There are no run out of squid, I get more prawns INFO: E-mail wop.hisinorchard@ My old go-to place for laksa has hot, it deepens the flavour of laksa opeh leaf flourishes. The noodles and boiled pork belly. ihg.com been disappointing the last few admirably. are smooshed onto a plate, with Before I know it, the plate is clean. years. The gravy has become so thin There is a riot of toppings to round and sliced chillies strewn Imagine that. Multiple Foodgasm Kaiseki as to have no flavour at all. So when off the bowl – tofu puffs; chunks, not here and there. There is a fat WHERE: Fried Hokkien Prawn Mee, Uni Gallery’s latest kaiseki menu friends tell me about Lik Ming Toa slices, of fish cake; prawns; and calamansi lime. All plates cost $4. 01-34 Golden Mile Food Centre, features premium delicacies such as Payoh Laksa, I know I have to go. Will those cockles, mostly plump and I take a bite. 505 Beach Road caviar, truffle and A5 wagyu with the this be the laksa of my dreams? just cooked. Ah. Here is the wok hei. The MRT: Nicoll Highway restaurant’s mainstays of different Orange oil – check. Cockles – “Come again when you are free,” noodles are full of flavour from the OPEN: 10am to 5pm (Thursdays types of premium uni and seasonal check. Rich coconut cream – could the woman says when I tell her how they have sucked up. Yes, to Tuesdays), closed on sashimi. Dishes include A5 Miyazaki be richer. much I enjoyed the laksa. juice should be in the noodles, not Wednesdays wagyu served with in-house uni But the bowl ($3 or $4) tastes like I think I might make my two laksa cream sauce; uni and toro on squid it is made with care. The gravy, quota this year. ink sushi; and uni tempura with although thinner than I would like, is WHERE: Lik Ming Toa Payoh Laksa, shaved winter truffle on steamed egg full of flavour from dried Block 93, Toa Payoh Lorong 4, 01-48 custard. and chilli. The friendly woman who MRT: Braddell OPEN: 6am to 1.30pm brings the bowl also has a container (Fridays to Tuesdays), closed on WHERE: B1-1310 The Plaza, 7500A of chilli with her. Wednesdays and Thursdays Beach Road MRT: Nicoll Highway “Would you like some?” INFO: www.facebook.com/ WHEN: Sun to Thu: 11.30am - 3pm & ST PHOTOS: Say yes. The chilli is not pasty. It Lik-Ming-Laksa-515837458870849 6 - 10pm; Fri & Sat: 11.30am - 3pm & TAN HSUEH YUN 6pm - midnight PRICE: $118++ (six courses a person) & $188++ (eight courses a person) TEL: 9838-8209 Lino – A New Breakfast And There will be a live band, free-flow crafted to complement the working days in advance, excluding MRT: City Hall/Raffles Place INFO: E-mail [email protected] Brunch Affair At Binjai Park beer and house wines, as well as a ShackBurger; and Summer IPA by weekends and public holidays. WHEN: Oct 4 & 5, 8pm The new breakfast/brunch menu at special Oktoberfest buffet menu with Archipelago Brewery, a WHERE: B1-K13 Waterway Point, PRICE: $60 (includes wine tasting) D9 Cakery’s Lino by resident chef Joe will have German delicacies such as the medium-bodied hoppy brew with 83 Punggol Central MRT: Punggol INFO: musicandwine.peatix.com Brand New Collection both healthy and indulgent options. all-time favourite crispy pork hints of grapefruit and orange. WHERE: 02-K1 VivoCity, Hilton Singapore partners with Indulge in a Parma Ham Sandwich knuckles, German pork sausages, WHERE: 02-256 Jewel Changi Airport, 1 Harbourfront Walk Junior Presents Petite Chalet French chocolate manufacturer ($15++) with mozzarella, tomatoes chicken bratwurst and sauerkraut. 78 Airport Boulevard MRT: HarbourFront The rotating concept bar is bringing Valrhona for 18 new premium and pesto sandwiched between two WHERE: RSYC Foreshore, 52 West MRT: Changi Airport WHERE: 01-01 HillV, 4 Hillview Rise a taste of the Alps to Singapore, cocoa-inspired , which include layers of crystal bread, or opt for a Coast Ferry Road WHEN: Till Wed, 10am - 10pm (live MRT: Hillview with a new concept Petite Chalet, a signature Double Chocolate Cake lighter option with the Papaya Bowl MRT: Haw Par Villa/Clementi performances today & tomorrow, WHEN: Till Oct 13, 11am - 10pm; where a ski lodge-inspired bar will ($6 a slice, $55 for the whole cake) ($14++), where fresh papaya is filled WHEN: Oct 11, 7 - 11pm 7 - 8.45pm) PRICE: From $30 Waterway Point & VivoCity outlets are feature cocktails and dishes that pay featuring eight layers with two types with an acai-banana smoothie and PRICE: Till Mon: $30+ - $60+; INFO: www.shakeshack.com.sg open till 11pm on Fri & Sat tribute to the 1970s apres ski scene. of premium Valrhona dark chocolate. topped with mango, passion fruit, Tue – Oct 11: $35+ - $65+; youth rate PRICE: $65 - $90 The new cocktail menu is divided into There is also an origami collection of dragon fruit, lime, medjool dates, available TEL: 6768-9382/ TEL: 6284-1692 (Waterway Point); four seasons, with a unique collection Rhubarb Origami Amour and Sakura HALLOWEEN 6376-9352 (VivoCity); of drinks (all priced at $25++) pumpkin and sunflower seeds. 9128-3308 INFO: E-mail Origami Ruby ($75 each). Rhubarb 6710-7262 (HillV) showcasing an array of alpine Other options include French Toast [email protected] or go to Origami Amour features a rhubarb A Fa-Boo-lous Halloween INFO: www.coldstonecreamery. liqueurs. Guests can also nibble on ($14++) and Buratta ($14++). rsyc.org.sg/tc-events/oktoberfest compote balanced with Valrhona With Cold Stone Creamery classic comfort food including WHERE: 7 Binjai Park MRT: King Albert com.sg Strawberry Inspiration chocolate, Cold Stone Creamery has launched Tartiflette ($18++), a traditional dish Park WHEN: 8.30am – 4.30pm chamomile tea jelly, vanilla bourbon Prost! Shake Shack Singapore 12 new ice cream character cake in the Alps made with scalloped (weekends & public holidays) mousse and almond sponge. For Celebrates First Shacktoberfest designs, based on characters from WINE/COCKTAIL EVENTS potatoes, brie and gruyere cheese, PRICE: $4++ - $24++ TEL: 6463-5282 Sakura Origami Ruby, raspberry The Shacktoberfest Beer Passport the Despicable Me and Trolls movie lardons and onion, and Chicken cremeux is paired with light TWG INFO: E-mail linorestaurant@ ($30) comes with three cold pints of franchises. The nine flavours are More Than Music & Wine Schnitzel ($13++), accompanied sakura tea mousse and crunchy lesamis.com.sg beer to pair with Shake Shack menu available in 6-inch square ($65, for This multi-sensory experience with housemade spiced pear matcha tea dacquoise with Valrhona classics. The first pint ordered using 12 to 14 people) or 7-inch square explores classical music paired with ketchup. Raspberry Inspiration chocolate. the Beer Passport will be served in an OKTOBERFEST ($90, for 16 to 18 people) sizes. specially chosen fine wines. Enjoy WHERE: 43 Tanjong Pagar Road WHERE: Lobby Level, Hilton exclusive ShackMeister stein which Flavours include Cookies & Creamery, works by Mozart, Beethoven, Ravel MRT: Tanjong Pagar Singapore, 581 Orchard Road customers can take home. Beer Cake Batter Confetti and Coffee and more, guided by personal insights WHEN: 7pm - midnight (Mon - Sat) MRT: Orchard WHEN: 10am - 9pm RSYC Oktoberfest 2019 choices include ShackMeister Ale by House Crunch. The character cakes from the performers and a sommelier. PRICE: $7++ - $48++ PRICE: $6 - $75 TEL: 6730-3392 Celebrate Oktoberfest with the Brooklyn Brewery, an exclusive are available for order in stores and WHERE: Blue Room, The Arts House, TEL: 8121-1462 INFO: E-mail [email protected] Republic of Singapore Yacht Club. citrusy, slightly bitter malty ale online. Orders must be placed five 1 Old Parliament Lane INFO: E-mail [email protected]