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| FRIDAY, JULY 19, 2019 | THE STRAITS TIMES | happenings life D5 Wong Ah Yoke Senior Food Correspondent recommends Picks LOLLA TASTING MENU PHOTOS: LOLLA, Lolla has debuted some new dishes PARADISE GROUP, and the best way to sample them at ROYAL PLAZA ON Food one sitting is to opt for the tasting SCOTTS, SI CHUAN menu. DOU HUA Five courses will set you back $95 a person and seven courses $125. The two extra courses include a starter of sea urchin pudding which, while not new, is a signature of the restaurant. Comprising two pieces of sea urchin on a small piece of pudding made with squid ink, egg and cream, it is delicious and worth stumping out for. paste is somewhat like yong tau foo What is new is a crab tortellini stuffing. (right) served in a creamy sauce with And I love the dessert of apple cubes of nashi pear and sprigs of tartin, which comes well caramelised chervil. The flavour combination is a and accompanied by a scoop of bit unexpected, but the bits of fruit do amazing wood-smoked ice cream. pair well with the sweet crabmeat WHERE: Lolla, 22 Ann Siang Hill packed firmly in pasta parcels. Other MRT: Telok Ayer/Chinatown dishes I like include a courgette OPEN: Noon to 2.30pm, 6 to 11pm flower stuffed with mackerel and daily. Sunday brunch from 10.30am to prawn in a tomato broth. The seafood 3pm TEL: 6423-1228 SHELLFISH GALORE SICHUAN BUFFET WITH honey sauce and stir-fried sea If you are a fan of shellfish, do check 102 DISHES cucumber with pork liver. out the Lobsters & Crabs dinner The annual 100 Sichuan Delights a la You can order as much of any dish buffet on Monday nights at Carousel. carte buffet promotion is back at Si as you want, but it is quite impossible Practically two-thirds of the spread Chuan Dou Hua, except this year to try all 102. When I went for the feature some kind of shellfish. The there are 102 dishes to choose from. promotion last year with three chilled seafood section is the most Of these, some 20 dishes are new. friends, we managed only about 40 impressive, with boiled Maine Those who assume that Sichuan dishes. That was partly because we lobsters, baby lobsters, slipper cooking is all about spicy and had multiple orders of favourite lobsters, Alaskan king crab legs, numbing flavours will be surprised to dishes such as diced chicken with spanner crabs, brown crabs, mud find that only six dishes are classified dried chilli and boiled sliced beef in crabs and blue swimming crabs, as under “ma la”. The rest fall under 25 Sichuan pepper sauce. well as clams and mussels. There is a other flavour profiles such as “garlic WHERE: Si Chuan Dou Hua, Parkroyal good selection of freshly shucked and chilli sauce” and “sweet and on Beach Road, 7500 Beach Road oysters too. salty”, which range from mildly spicy MRT: Bugis/Nicoll Highway WHEN: Till From the hot food section, you find to sweet. Examples are sliced fish Sept 30, 11.30am to 2.30pm, 6.30 to dishes such as braised lobster maw in sesame sauce, braised fish in 10.30pm daily PRICE: $60 for an adult, Hokkien mee, salted egg stir-fried spicy bean paste, stir-fried chicken in $30 for a child (minimum of four slipper lobster with curry leaves and ginger sauce, braised pork knuckle in diners) TEL: 6505-5722 seafood paella. There is chilli crab too, but the better dish for me is the deep-fried soft-shell crab with sour pomelo dip. SHRIMP BROTH HOTPOT You can also get a twin pot, by The crabs are so crispy that the legs For the opening of Beauty In The Pot’s pairing the shrimp broth with other snap like crackers, a nice contrast to new outlet at The Star Vista, the options such as the restaurant’s the meaty and sweet bodies. hotpot restaurant is collaborating signature beauty collagen broth or WHERE: Carousel, Royal Plaza on with Le Shrimp Ramen next door by spicy nourishing soup. That way, you Scotts Singapore, 25 Scotts Road offering a shrimp broth option just for can enjoy some beef too. MRT: Orchard WHEN: Till Aug 19, this month. Both eateries are WHERE: Beauty In The Pot, The Star Mondays, 6.30 to 9.30pm operated by the Paradise Group. Vista 02-24, 1 Vista Exchange Green PRICE: $80 for an adult and $46 for a The shrimp broth is based on the MRT: Buona Vista WHEN: Shrimp child TEL: 6219-3780 recipe for the ramen, but made lighter broth available till July 31, 11.30am to and sweeter with the addition of fresh 3pm, 6pm to 3am daily PRICE: Shrimp clams. It goes very well with seafood broth costs $28 for a single pot, $15 items such as fish and prawn paste as for twin pot. Add $8 for a twin pot for well as pork and fried beancurd skin, the other broths. Ingredients are but less well with beef. priced separately. TEL: 6262-1692 FOOD El Mero Mero Relaunched WHERE: The Fullerton Hotel sambal aioli, and tropical trifle ($10++) Tien Lo will get a complimentary box Bordeaux, with pan-fried US kurobuta Five years after it first opened its Singapore, 1 Fullerton Square is a dessert of coconut custard, guava of Four Treasures Baked Mooncakes. pork with melted onions. PROMOTIONS doors, Mexican restaurant El Mero MRT: Raffles Place WHEN: Aug 1 - 11, jelly and cardamom chantilly. Highlights of the set menu are WHERE: 7A-7B Dempsey Road Mero has undergone a makeover and 6.30 - 10.30pm PRICE: $59++ - $85++ WHERE: Ginger Garden, Singapore combination of chilled crab meat in MRT: Botanic Gardens/Holland recently relaunched with a new an adult; $30++ - $43++ a child Botanic Gardens, 1 Cluny Road Japanese sake and deep-fried crispy Village WHEN: Till Sept 1, 6.30 - Crab-ulous Buffet At Azur kitchen team, menu and new interiors. TEL: 6877-8911/8912 INFO: E-mail MRT: Botanic Gardens prawns with pomelo sauce; 10.30pm PRICE: $148++ a person (at Feast on a spread of crabs including Some highlights of the new menu are [email protected] WHEN: Aug 9 - 12, 10am -5pm (brunch) double-boiled fresh and dried least two people); $108++ without chilli and salted egg yolk crab at the Baja Fish tacos ($14++), the Wagyu PRICE: $10++ - $28++ TEL: 8444-1148 scallops with fresh mushrooms in wine-pairing TEL: 6774-0122 Crowne Plaza Changi Airport’s Azur. Volcan ($15++) and Avocado Taco S’pore Favourites With Modern INFO: thehalia.com chicken stock; and deep-fried crispy INFO: E-mail mjdempsey@ Other offerings include pan-seared ($11++). Other dishes include Hamachi French Twist At Saint Pierre boneless duck with yam paste. goodwoodparkhotel.com crab cake, deep fried soft shell crab & Coconut Ceviche ($21++) ; Tortilla Chef-owner Emmanuel Stroobant WHERE: Level 3, Pan Pacific and Azur’s ginger onion crab. Soup ($14++); Atlantic Grilled Octopus uses Hokkaido hairy crab for his MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL Singapore, 7 Raffles Boulevard Li Bai’s Cantonese Delights WHERE: Level 2 Crowne Plaza Changi ($32++); and El Mero Mero Fajita National Day chilli crab and Nagasaki MRT: Promenade WHEN: 11.30am - With Louis M. Martini Wines Kaya Truffle Mini Snowskin Airport, 75 Airport Boulevard ($38++). seabass for fish head curry, together 2.30pm, 6.30 - 10.30pm (till Sept 14) From Shang Palace The five-course menu by chef Chung MRT: Changi Airport WHEN: Till Aug 31, WHERE: 01-20 Chijmes, 30 Victoria with dishes such as scallop laksa and PRICE: $128++ a person (minimum Yiu Ming starts with Pan-Fried The new mooncake flavours from 6 - 10pm PRICE: $78++ an adult, Street MRT: City Hall WHEN: Sun - Thu: abalone congee with caviar. Canapes two people) TEL: 6826-8240 Pancake with Scallop and Deep-Fried Shang Palace include kaya truffle mini $39++ a child TEL: 6823-5354 or 5 - 11pm; Fri & Sat: 5 - 11.30pm include brinjal buah keluak, sambal INFO: E-mail dining.ppsin@ Hong Kong Silver Fish with Salt and snowskin ($80+, four pieces) and WhatsApp 9336-3125 INFO: E-mail TEL: 9722-8171 INFO: elmeromero.sg ladies’ fingers and kueh pie tee. panpacific.com Pepper (paired with La Marca [email protected] WHERE: 02-02B One Fullerton, baked reduced sugar white lotus seed Sparkling Prosecco D.O.C.), followed by 1 Fullerton Road MRT: Raffles Place paste with four yolks ($120+, four Treasure Soup in Young Coconut and Flex Your Mussels At Ginett NATIONAL DAY WHEN: Aug 9, 6pm PRICE: $248++ a pieces). The mini baked custard with WINE EVENTS Deep-Fried Kuhlbarra Fish with X4.O. Ginett Restaurant & Wine Bar makes person TEL: 6438-0887 info: E-mail bird’s nest ($120+ a box, eight pieces), Sauce (Louis M. Martini Sonoma a splash this summer with a seasonal A Soiree By The River At [email protected] introduced last year, makes a return. Six-Course Wine Pairing Dinner County 2015), Baked Black Pepper menu starring Bouchot mussels from Fullerton’s Town Restaurant WHERE: Lobby/Shang Palace, At Min Jiang Dempsey Pork Rib (Alexander Valley 2015) and the bay of Mont Saint-Michel, France. To celebrate National Day, The Chilli Crab Cottage Pie 22 Orange Grove Road MRT: Stevens/ Min Jiang at Dempsey’s Cantonese Black Truffle Fried Rice with Red For this and next month, diners can Fullerton Hotel Singapore presents A At The Halia Orchard WHEN: Till Sept 13, 10am - and Sichuan dishes are paired with Cherry Shrimp (Napa Valley 2016). savour the mussels served four ways Soiree By The River at Town Chef Ciaran’s National Day menu of 9pm PRICE: $80+ - $120+ wines from around the world in a Dessert is Cream of Sweet Potato with – mariniere, white wine sauce, tomato Restaurant to pay tribute to the local favourites at The Halia is TEL: 6213-4398 INFO: E-mail six-course menu by master chef Goh Black Sesame Dumpling.