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| FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 2019 | THE STRAITS TIMES | happenings life D5 FOOD WHEN: Till Aug 31, 11.30am - 3pm, 6pm - midnight (Mon - Fri); 6pm - Tan Hsueh Yun Food Editor recommends PROMOTIONS midnight (Sat) PRICE: $18++ - $28++ TEL: 6224-1045 INFO: E-mail FLAVOURFUL BREAD Fish Mart Sakuraya’s [email protected] Picks At about midnight, when I finally got $32 Anniversary Sashimi Set home, I cut into a sourdough Fish Mart Sakuraya celebrates its Culinary Heritage Buffet At baguette I had bought hours before. There was no reason to expect 32 years in Singapore with a $32 Ellenborough Market Cafe Food much. It had been sitting in the car Anniversary Sashimi Set. For National The lunch and dinner buffets celebrate Singapore’s culinary and in the office for much of the day. Day, the supermarket-cum- The crust crackled. I took a bite. heritage, with highlights such as fruit restaurant is selling the SG54 Maki Then another. Until the slice was rojak, Teochew style bak kut teh, ($5.40) and, at its West Coast Plaza all gone. Hainanese and roast chicken rice, outlet on Aug 9, a Japanese robot will The bread was from Slow Bakes, a serve free coffee to customers. roast pork belly and char siew and chill cafe at the lobby of Oasia Hotel in WHERE (MRT): 02-01 The Seletar Nonya laksa. Others include salted Novena. It serves primo loaves and Mall, 33 Sengkang West Avenue egg slipper lobster, fried carrot cake, buns. While the bun fillings might (Sengkang, Fernvale LRT); B1-50 West stir-fried Hokkien mee, satay bee seem commonplace – curry, coconut, Coast Plaza, 154 West Coast Road hoon, Peranakan classics and cheese and matcha, among others (Clementi); 01-32 Anchorpoint, desserts such as D-I-Y ice kacang – it is sourdough that envelops them. 370 Alexandra Road (Queenstown); and durian pengat. Chewy, flavourful bread makes a good B1-84D Parkway Parade, 80 Marine WHERE: Level 1 Swissotel Merchant change from the soft, sweet buns that Parade Road (Eunos/Dakota) Court, 20 Merchant Road MRT: Clarke are everywhere. WHEN: Dining: 11.30am - 10pm; Quay WHEN: Till Aug 31; lunch: noon - If it is available when you go, snag a Coconut Bun ($2.80). I told the supermarket: from 10.30am (Seletar 2.30pm, dinner: 6.30 - 10pm friendly Taiwanese woman who Mall from 11am) PRICE: $5.40 - $32 PRICE: Lunch: $52++, dinner: runs the place that it is my favourite TEL: 6214-3736 (Seletar Mall)/ $68++ a person; half-price for child (six - 12 years old) TEL: 6239-1847/ bun because it reminds me of 6773-6973 (West Coast Plaza)/ childhood. But this is unlike the buns 6474-2495 (Anchorpoint)/ 1848 INFO: E-mail dining.merchant [email protected] I had as a kid. 6345-4714 (Parkway Parade) Aside from the bread, which has INFO: www.sakuraya.com.sg Crab-ulous Buffet, National Day much more personality, the generous filling is not coloured a violent orange. Weekend Special At Azur Fat Chap Makan Trail It is the colour of dark caramel and Crowne Plaza Changi Airport’s Azur Fat Chap goes on a Makan Trail across just sweet enough. Have it with the is serving its Crab-ulous Dinner Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia as cafe’s ultra-smooth cappuccino Buffet, a spread of crabs cooked in the three nations celebrate their ($6.50) for an instant perk-me-up. local flavours such as chilli crab, independence this month. Its Bullet-shaped curry buns ($2.80 salted egg yolk crab, ginger onion Fuss-Free Lunch offers dishes such each) are filled with spicy potatoes crab, pan-seared crab cake, that pack an unexpected punch. as Really Indomie Goreng ($12.90++), deep-fried soft-shell crab and crab I have become used to insipid curry with seafood and chicken satay; meat salad with compressed buns with undercooked spices, so this Lontong Sayur ($12.90++), with watermelon. For the National Day is an excellent surprise. The Cheese goes into the topping so, in addition butter? No. It was perfect on its own, Slow Bakes’ sambal egg and beef rendang; and Weekend, the buffet will also be Poro ($2.80), with a rough hewn to sweet, there is a wisp of bitter. tasting of the time taken and care (clockwise Wonton Mee ($14.90++), with chicken available for brunch. covering, sort of like a polo bun, is In my kitchen after a slice of given. from top) bak kut teh soup. The all-day a la carte WHERE: Level 2 Crowne Plaza Changi filled with cheddar. I thought of how Sourdough Baguette ($4), I was Magic at midnight? Magic all Earl Grey Bun, menu consists of snacks to share Airport, 75 Airport Boulevard the cheese would have had no tempted to cut myself another slice. day, I would say. Curry Bun, such as Har Cheong Gai Lollipop MRT: Changi Airport WHEN/PRICE: Till personality at all in a sweet bun. Instead, I turned to the handsome WHERE: Slow Bakes, 01-05 Oasia Coconut Bun, ($10++ - $18++) and Not Really Ramly Aug 31, dinner (6 - 10pm): $78++ an Deserving an honourable mention Country Sourdough ($8) loaf instead Hotel, 8 Sinaran Drive MRT: Novena Matcha Cream Burger ($25++). is the Matcha Cream Croissant ($3). and sliced a big piece off the end. TEL: 6397-2289 OPEN: 7am to adult, $39++ a child; Aug 9 - 12; Croissant and Good powdered Japanese green tea Butter? Kaya? Marmite peanut 8.30pm daily Cheese Poro. WHERE: 01-643 Suntec City East brunch: noon - 3.30pm; dinner: Wing, 3 Temasek Boulevard 6 - 10pm: $54 nett an adult (child MRT: Promenade/Esplanade half-price) TEL: Call 6823-5354 WHEN: Till Aug 31; Fuss-Free Lunch: or WhatsApp 9336-3125 INFO: E-mail BAK CHOR PHOTOS: 11.30am - 2.30pm (Mon - Fri); all-day [email protected] menu: 11am - 11pm (Mon - Thu & Sat), MEE WITH ROKETTO THE WORKS 11 - 1am (Fri), 11am - 10pm (Sun) IZAKAYA, “Singapore Stars” From While nursing a PRICE: Selected dishes: $10++ - SUMMER HILL, Tiong Bahru Bakery fierce craving for TAN HSUEH YUN $25++ TEL: 6836-5994 INFO: E-mail Tiong Bahru Bakery’s Singapore Stars bak chor mee [email protected] pastry in red and white – made to recently, I went celebrate the nation’s 54th birthday – through a list Monster Curry’s Doraemon comprises coconut sponge cake of favourite Campaign Special Menu with coconut lime mousse and a places In conjunction with the opening of a strawberry and raspberry confit. in my head. Doraemon movie, Monster Curry is WHERE: Tiong Bahru Bakery outlets, Crawford Street? Nah, launching a menu celebrating the go to tiongbahrubakery.com for parking’s mad. Japanese cartoon character. outlet locations WHEN: Aug 7 - 12 Verdun Road? The Special Combo Curry ($28.80, for PRICE: $8.90++ (dine-in), $8.90+ Parking’s mad. two people) has pork katsu, fried fish, (takeaway) jumbo fried ebi, tori karaage and Hong Lim Food Centre? Parking’s mad, mad, mad. takoyaki toppings. Drinks include I ended up in a Bukit Batok coffee shop, at Ah Kow Mushroom Minced Pork Mee. The original is at Hong Lim SINGAPOREAN FAVOURITES rojak, hae ko is made into an ice The Blue Calpis Soda and Okinawa MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL and this stall was born out of a family feud. WITH A TWIST cream for this dish. The rojak has a Shiquasa Soda ($5.80 each Parking was decidedly not mad, so I did not expect a Can you go to a restaurant three base of aburaage, the Japanese with Doraemon coaster). Blueberry With Vintage Hua Diao Wine From Hua TIng queue, but there was a constant one about 10-deep all times a day? I think I could go to version of taupok. On it is piled WHERE: For list of outlets, go to through lunch. Relish at least that number of times. prawns, pineapple, jicama, mango For those who enjoy alcohol in monstercurry.com.sg/outlets I ordered Minced Meat Noodle (above, $4, $5 or $6) with For lunch, where I would order rice and bonito flakes. That pungent, WHEN: Till Sept 30, 11am - 10pm mooncakes, Orchard Hotel my usual mee kia and the strands were slightly thicker or noodles; at teatime for a cup of punchy ice cream melts into the PRICE: Food: $11.80 - $28.80, drinks: Singapore’s Hua Ting Restaurant has, than at other places. It was a small thing, but the noodles coffee and a slice of cake; then after rojak, its flavour bringing the salad $5.80 INFO: monstercurry.com.sg among its snowskin flavours, the were less springy than I would have liked. work, for izakaya food. ingredients to life. Take that, dog lilac-hued Blueberry with Vintage Hua Never mind, I thought to myself, the chilli is really punchy The restaurant at Frasers Tower days of summer. Diao Wine and orange-hued White and the bowl is loaded with goodies – wontons, slices of transforms into Roketto Izakaya An old favourite is back – Curry NATIONAL DAY Lotus Paste with Champagne lean pork, a pile of minced pork, slices of stewed from 6 to 11pm from Tuesdays to Chicken Shepherd’s Pie ($15.80), Ganache. Other snowskin options mushroom, cubes of crisp lard and, best of all, a generous Saturdays, serving small plates that Sarawak-style curry with chicken Saturday High Tea Buffet At include Hawthorn with Melon Seeds piece of aromatic dried sole. are a twist on Singapore food. thigh and potatoes, and lashings of Hilton’s D9 Cakery and Mini Salted Egg Yolk Custard (all The umami the fish imparts was worth the trip there. I am pleased to report that Har cheese to neutralise the heat.