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D6 life happenings | THE STRAITS TIMES | FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018 | FOOD enjoy the fireworks. Besides the five-course National Day Exclusive Tan Hsueh Yun Life Editor recommends PROMOTIONS Menu ($138++ a person), there is a Pre-book Table Package ($200++ BAKED GOODS A HIT Positano Risto’s New Menu minimum spend for four people) Picks After classes at New York’s Launch where diners can book their table International Culinary Center, for a selection of drinks and food. Italian restaurant Positano Risto has Naadhira Ismail would walk past the The Walk-In Package ($52++ a launched a fresh menu with more school’s bakery, inhaling the scent of than 10 new creations. For starters, person) includes two complimentary Food sourdough loaves that students try the Arancini Balls ($11.95), made house pours. turned out. They could help with fragrant Italian rice and stuffed WHERE: 05-03/06-02 National themselves to the goods too, with mozzarella. The thin crust Gallery, 1 St Andrew’s Road MRT: City and the pastry student became Roma-style pizza ($16.95 to $28.95) is Hall WHEN: Aug 9, 6.30 - 10.30pm enchanted with bread. crafted by an Italian pizza chef and PRICE: $52++ - $138++ a person the calzone, topped with turkey ham TEL: 6866-1977 INFO: E-mail After completing her course at the and pepperoni strips, is worth [email protected] centre, formerly known as the French mentioning. The signature Boston Culinary Institute, she worked for lobster fettuccine ($58.95, serves Hawker Favourites At French bakery chain Maison Kayser two) comes with creamy lobster Feast@East and, later, Runner & Stone, a bakery in bisque and a whole Boston lobster. Grand Mercure Singapore Roxy is Brooklyn, before coming home. WHERE: 66 Bussorah Street serving popular hawker dishes at Two months ago, she opened MRT: Bugis WHEN: Lunch: 11.30am - its Feast@East Buffet Restaurant, Mother Dough Bakery in North Bridge 3pm (Mon - Sat); dinner: 6 - 10pm such as chilli crab, char kway teow and Road, naming it after the sourdough (Mon - Thu), 6 - 11pm (Fri), 6pm - fried carrot cake. On Aug 9, there will starter used to make good bread. midnight (Sat); 11.30am - 10pm (Sun) be a live screening of the National Day Her loaves, including a Baby PRICE: Selected items: $9.95 - $58.95 Parade and diners get 50 per cent off Baguette ($2), are crusty and craggy, TEL: 6292-1866 adult and child prices. and have the tang of good sourdough. INFO: positanoristo.com WHERE: Level 3 Grand Mercure Toasted and spread lavishly with Singapore Roxy, 50 East Coast Road salted butter and drizzled with honey, Hida Wagyu At Keyaki MRT: Eunos/Dakota WHEN/ the baguettes make for compulsive The wagyu beef promotion is making PRICE: July 28 - Sept 2; lunch eating. its return to Keyaki, with prime cuts of (noon - 2.30pm): $46++ an But the 32-year-old started as a Hida beef prepared and served in five adult/$23++ a child pastry student after all and her menus showcasing the robust flavour (pioneers/seniors: $31/$35 nett); almond croissant ($4, right) is dinner (6 - 9.30pm): $51++ - of the premium meat. The beef comes smashing. Many bakeries make them $53++/$25++ - $26++ from black-haired Japanese cows with unsold croissants, but at Mother (pioneers/seniors: $32/$38 nett) raised in Gifu Prefecture for at least Dough, they disappear so quickly that 14 months. Highlights include the TEL: 6340-5665 INFO: E-mail [email protected] she makes croissants just for this teppanyaki Hida wagyu beef steak, treat. pan-fried Hida wagyu beef on rice and Deliveroo’s National Day deals Bite into one of these beauties, Hida wagyu beef sashimi. studded with sliced almonds, and WHERE: Level 4 Pan Pacific Singapore, For a limited period, orders of selected items from a number of there is crisp lightness and then 7 Raffles Boulevard MRT: Promenade not-too-sweet cream flecked with WHEN: Aug 6 - Sept 30, 11.30am - restaurants via food delivery service Deliveroo will be priced at or carry a brown from almond skin. Cue waves of 2.30pm, 6.30 - 10.30pm PRICE: Lunch pleasure. set menus: $68++ - $210++; dinner discount of $5.30. The discount applies to A-One Claypot House’s The croissants are more compelling set menus: $190++ - $210++ Claypot Chicken & Mushroom Rice, than the plain ones ($3) or those TEL: 6826-8240 INFO: E-mail Sushi Tei’s Sushi Roll with Grilled stuffed with chocolate and almonds [email protected] Spicy Fish Cake (otar) and Soup ($4.40); turkey ham and cheese ($4); Kimme & Hey Handsome Restaurant’s Samsui Ginger Chicken cheese ($3.40); and beef pepperoni Four-Hands Collaboration (half). The $5.30 items are Sushi Teh’s and cheese ($3.80). Nasi Lemak Roll and Qi Ji’s Prawn Louis Han and Nicco Santos, the Her wares sell out fast, but if Lemon Baby Baguette (or three) for when Popiah Roll (two pieces). Customers respective head chefs of Kimme in Cake ($4 a slice, right) is available, I need a bread fix. can also take part in Food Battles – Singapore and Hey Handsome in pounce. The pound cake has a velvety And to think, before culinary school, vote on Deliveroo’s Facebook page for Manila, will come together to present crumb and is not too dense. It has a Ms Naadhira “baked for fun”. After a your chosen Ming Kitchen (by Sunday) a seven-course tasting menu. bright lemon flavour and I don’t even decade organising fashion events in and Boon Tong Kee (Aug 3 - 5) dishes Kimme’s speciality is modern Korean mind the drizzle of icing on top. It Singapore, she took the plunge and to be available at a discount. dishes, while Hey Handsome focuses looks lethally sweet, but is not. went to New York. WHERE: deliveroo.com.sg The Banana Walnut and Chocolate “I had a good feeling about it,” on the flavours and textures found in WHEN: $5.30 offers: July 23 - Aug 12 Malaysian and Singaporean cuisine. Espresso cakes ($4 a slice) have she says. (check with Deliveroo for other perfect texture, but the bananas WHERE: Mother Dough Bakery, 01-01, WHERE: Kimme Restaurant, 47 Amoy relevant dates) TEL: 3163-7074 need to be more ripe and I would like a 749 North Bridge Road MRT: Bugis Street MRT: Telok Ayer WHEN: Aug 1 & INFO: E-mail support@ stronger coffee flavour. OPEN: Noon to 7pm (Tuesdays to 2, 7pm PRICE: $135++ a person deliveroo.com.sg or go to Mostly, I am happy with my almond Saturdays), 11am to 5pm (Sundays), TEL: 6514-1588 INFO: E-mail facebook.com/DeliverooSG [email protected] croissant or lemon cake and a cold closed on Mondays TEL: 6909-6604 brew tea ($6) and I always leave with a INFO: www.motherdough.com.sg Oishii So Japan! At Carousel MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL Guest chefs Tomoki Kogure and Kenko Kimura of Royal Park Hotels New Ice-Cream Mooncakes From Japan will be dishing out their Hello Kitty Orchid Garden UGLY DELICIOUS PRODIGAL GETS NEW HOME Hello Kitty Orchid Garden is signature creations at Carousel’s It takes courage For a few blissful weeks, I haunted introducing two ice-cream Oishii So Japan! promotion. On to serve unpretty Prodigal Roasters in Ang Mo Kio, glad mooncakes. The Pink Passionfruit opening night, diners can expect a food these days, to have excellent coffee near work cutting ceremony of an 80kg Punch, made with passionfruit ice cream, and Butter Me Up – salted when style so often and home. blue-fin tuna, a taiko drum trumps substance One Sunday, I popped in for a performance and cosplayers. butterscotch ice cream with cookie crumble bits – are wrapped in delicate and looks trump cappuccino and found that it was The menu features dishes such as ika taste. the last day of operations. meshi (boiled squid stuffed with rice), pastry skin embossed with the iconic feline. Also available is the cafe’s The Salted Plum Fortunately, I can still get my fix – I umaki (roasted eel in omelette), in Circular Road has just have to go to MacPherson. tai no marine (marinated sea bream), traditional baked mooncake, Over The Moon, salted egg yolk in lotus seed that courage. The There, in a maze of Housing Board and 13 flavours of ice cream such as paste with lotus seeds and wrapped restaurant, which blocks, Prodigal has a larger, brighter wasabi cheese. in a traditional baked pastry skin. grew out of a cafe which opened in February. On WHERE: Level 1 Royal Plaza on Scotts, WHERE: Arrival Hall Central, 01-22 pop-up in South the menu are its excellent cookies, 25 Scotts Road MRT: Orchard Singapore Changi Airport Terminal 3, Bridge Road called Five Ten, serves Taiwanese-inspired cakes and other bakes, and more WHEN: Aug 10 - 19, 6.30 - 9.30pm 65 Airport Boulevard MRT: Changi small plates, which cost $5 or $10 for the most part. substantial food offerings. PRICE: $83++ an adult, $49++ a child Airport WHEN/PRICE: Open 24 hours; At lunch, the restaurant serves $10 lunch bowls for the Coffee, however, is a must. If beans need food. If it is available, the Bak TEL: 6589-7799 INFO: E-mail Aug 15 - Sept 7: $29.80++/nett [email protected] office crowd, but the dinner menu is far more interesting. from Thailand and Myanmar are Kwa & Cranberry Scone ($3.50) is a dine-in/takeaway; Sept 8 - 24: Bamboo Shoots ($5) braised in pork broth tastes clean available, even better. must. Warm, buttery and tender, $33.80++/nett for box of and I cannot get enough of the juicy shoots.