| FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2020 | THE STRAITS TIMES | happenings life C5

Eunice Quek Food Correspondent recommends

MIN JIANG’S NEW CHAPTER brisket, tendon and radish ($36 or Next Thursday, Goodwood Park $72), and roasted chicken skin with Hotel’s 38-year-old Chinese prawn paste in sesame pockets ($36 establishment Min Jiang will reopen or $72). The chicken skin, crispy after undergoing a refurbishment. beancurd skin, Japanese cucumber

Food Picks The elegant restaurant – designed and rock melon are stuffed into a by architect Ernesto Bedmar – now crisp sesame pocket with a boasts a brighter interior accented by deliciously spicy hoi sin sauce. warm honey-hued textile panels, For a noodle dish, try the stewed white marble table and counter tops, noodles (right, $18 a person) and chairs upholstered in patterned with sweet Argentinean red prawns, or fabric. deep-fried wonton topped with tobiko, Start with the new range of and the quintessential cubes of lard. offerings, exquisitely crafted by Complete your meal with deep-fried Master Chef Chan Hwan Kee. purple with a crispy milk SPICY RICE AND NOODLE The Min Jiang Land and Sea Quartet filling ($20 for eight pieces) and BOWLS ($16.80, lunch only) features topped with gula melaka syrup. If you find regular grain bowls too rabbit-shaped steamed prawn and It is hard to stop at one. bland and boring, head to carrot dumpling; carrot-shaped WHERE: Min Jiang, Goodwood Park Bowl – a spin-off concept by deep-fried glutinous pastry filled with Hotel, 22 Scotts Road MRT: Orchard Chengdu Restaurant in Amoy char siew and crunchy pine nuts; OPEN: From 1pm on Thursday, Street – for a good dose of spice. steamed squid and sea cucumber 11.30am to 2.30pm (Mondays to Takeaway is also available from dumpling; and steamed prawn and Saturdays), 11am to 2.30pm (Sundays), Chengdu Restaurant’s sister outlet Chinese stem lettuce with tobiko 6.30 to 10.30pm daily TEL: 6730-1704 Taikoo Lane at Point. “starfish” dumpling. INFO: E-mail min_jiang@goodwood No bland chicken breast on salad Standout dishes from the a la carte parkhotel.com or order online at here. Think la zi ji ( menu include the slow-braised goodwoodparkhotel.oddle.me chicken), spicy sliced beef or juicy pork belly (above) over pearl rice or wholegrain brown rice (from $10.60 for a small portion). CRYSTAL JADE’S PEI PA KOA-INSPIRED Sides include corn, edamame, READY-TO-COOK KITS KOMBUCHA xiao bai cai and preserved Do-it-yourself meal kits are one It has been used in vegetables. Toss the ingredients of the best things rolled out by cocktails and bubble tea. together to get a bit of everything restaurants during the circuit Now, kombucha gets a in one bite. breaker. dose of herbal cough syrup Aside from the standard rice After its ready-to-eat and frozen Pei Pa Koa. bowls, my two top picks are the products, the Crystal Jade Group has Home-grown brewery Le Prawn Paste Noodles with Sour now introduced ready-to-cook kits, Vyr (levure means yeast in Pickled Soup (from $10.60) and with seasonal packages launched French) has launched a Sichuan Spicy ($13.80). fortnightly. Herbal Remedy kombucha Both pack a tongue-tingling punch. Each kit includes clear cooking ($8), which has loquats, The housemade prawn paste instructions and neatly packed honey and menthol mint. balls have a nice chew and I slurp ingredients – all portioned and It is both bizarre and the springy noodles with the sour prepped – for one dish. It is good for brilliant. You don’t get the and spicy soup. people who still want to cook a hot, thick texture of the cough The maocai, a Sichuan stew, has restaurant-quality meal but have no syrup yet the concoction all my favourite ingredients that time to shop for or prepare smells exactly like it. pair well with mala – sliced lotus ingredients. The more I drink it, the more it grows on me, and I like root, soya bean sprouts, luncheon I order the sauteed premium beef the cooling sensation at the back of my throat. meat, fungus and enoki. It comes with black pepper sauce ($13.80, Other local-inspired flavours (from $7 for a 330ml bottle, with rice, which you will need to good for up to two people), which $35.50 for a tasting bundle of five) include the balance out the heat. comes with tender sliced beef and the calamansi-infused Teh Limau and Kopi O, which is brewed OPEN: 10am to 8.30pm daily right amount of black pepper sauce with local coffee beans. I also like the pronounced INFO: Order online at to coat each piece; and mapo topped with dried shrimp powder and And I also love how the ingredients pineapple flavour from the Singapore Sling kombucha. chengdubowl.ezqr.sg, ($9.80, good for two to three people) deep-fried scallions. are sliced and diced with finesse – If you are not keen on kombucha, try the milk kefir GrabFood and Deliveroo with minced pork, mushrooms and It is a bestseller at Crystal Jade La clearly done by a chef. (a fermented milk drink, from $7.50 for a 250ml bottle). spring onions. Mian Xiao Long Bao. INFO: Order at estore.crystaljade.com The Mango Sago flavour reminds me of a mango lassi, To complement the dishes, I also The three dishes take only about 15 ($10 delivery charge) or self-collect at while the Raspberry Ripple comes with white chocolate order the La Mian with Scallion Oil minutes to cook. It is quick, fuss-free Crystal Jade Palace in Takashimaya wafers for dipping into the kefir – like having an ice-cream ($10.80, good for two people), and the food tastes good. Shopping Centre wafer sandwich. PHOTOS: CHENGDU BOWL, INFO: Order online at www.levyrsg.com. Free island-wide CRYSTAL JADE GROUP, delivery for orders above $50, or pay $10 for delivery GOODWOOD PARK HOTEL, LE VYR

Carousel Launches Delivery For FOOD Buffet Dishes And Bentos PROMOTIONS Have your favourite dishes from buffet restaurant Carousel delivered The Heritage Table: to your doorstep. They include chilled Kin X Kotuwa mini seafood platter ($55), black Heritage restaurant Kin is hosting pepper Maine lobsters ($80) and The Heritage Table, featuring signature bread and butter pudding cross-cultural collaborations with ($35). There are also individual bentos celebrated chefs on a mission to ($10 each) like juicy beef burger with preserve heritage. On Oct 22 and 23, truffle fries and aromatic Thai green chef Damian D’Silva and chef Rishi curry chicken with deep-fried Thai Naleendra from new Sri Lankan fish cake and rice. Family bentos ($65 restaurant Kotuwa will present a each) – good for four people – are menu with myriad flavours. available in themed menus. For WHERE: Straits Clan Lobby, 31 Bukit instance, the Wild Wild West menu Pasoh Road MRT: Outram Park comes with dishes such as ragout of WHEN: Oct 22 & 23, 6 - 10.30pm (last lamb with spring vegetables and seating: 8pm) PRICE: $168++ a person sun-dried tomatoes, Spanish seafood (Oct 22), $188++ (Oct 23, includes stew of prawns, clams and mussels signature cocktail) INFO: E-mail with vegetables. Vegetarian options [email protected] to are also available. Minimum order of make a reservation $50 is required for each delivery. Advance order of at least one day is Yanmi Yogurt Opens required for Celebration Feasts. Four New Outlets Family and individual bentos can be delivered within two hours or The new outlets are at Junction 8 pre-ordered for a later date. (open), Chinatown Point (opening on WHERE: Carousel, Royal Plaza, Oct 12), Wisma Atria (opening on 25 Scotts Road MRT: Orchard Oct 15) and SingPost Centre (opening WHEN: Ongoing INFO: Order from on Oct 23). To celebrate the openings, bit.ly/CarouselIslandwide Yanmi Yogurt will offer a one-for-one promotion for its Purple Rice Yogurt ($4.80) for a limited time. Fans can Min Jiang At Dempsey Puts Spin also enjoy offerings from the On Dialect Favourites Indulgence Yogurt series, such as As part of Goodwood Park Hotel’s Roasted Brown Sugar Boba Yogurt 120th-anniversary celebrations, ($4.80) and Kyoto Matcha Red-bean Min Jiang at Dempsey is presenting Yogurt ($5.30). chef Goh Chee Kong’s take on 12 WHERE: Junction 8: 02-30, 9 Bishan classic Cantonese, Hakka, Hokkien and Teochew dishes. They include Place; Chinatown Point: B1-38, 133 New Bridge Road; Wisma Atria: B1-44, steamed quail eggs siew mai in truffle oil ($7.80 for four pieces), 435 Orchard Road; SingPost Centre: deep-fried crabmeat with chicken B1-149, 10 Eunos Road 8 MRT: Bishan/ liver and salted egg yolk ($26 for Chinatown/Orchard/Paya Lebar four pieces) and with WHEN: 10.30am - 10pm daily; minced chicken in red glutinous rice one-for-one promotion – Junction 8: wine ($28 an order). Takeaway and today - Sun; Chinatown Point: Oct 16 - delivery are available. A minimum 18; Wisma Atria: Oct 23 - 25; order of $50 is required for delivery SingPost Centre: Oct 23 - 25 ($15 nett; free delivery for orders of INFO: www.facebook.com/ $120 nett and above). yanmiyogurt WHERE: Min Jiang at Dempsey, Mad About Sucre Relaunches 7A & 7B Dempsey Road MRT: Holland With New Menu Village WHEN: Till Dec 31, 11.30am - 2.30pm, 6.30 - 10.30pm; collection Curated by co-founder and chef & delivery: noon - 3pm, 7 - 10pm Eric Chan, the new menu features INFO: www.goodwoodparkhotel.com seasonal flavours with a twist, such as the eight-hour classic oxtail stew simmered in Burgundy red wine ($42), WINE/WHISKY EVENTS wild-caught barramundi with , garlic and spices ($38) and French Celebrity Spanish Wine Dinner foie gras pasta ($42). Also known for Cali Singapore’s chefs have curated a its cakes and chocolates, its new five-course meal to pair with a special dessert menu is curated by chef and Spanish wine. Diners can also take co-founder Lena Chan. part in a lucky draw for a chance to WHERE: Mad About Sucre, 27 Teo win two bottles of Vina Maris wines. Hong Road MRT: Outram Park WHERE: Cali Rochester Park, 01-01 WHEN: Tue - Sat: 12.30 - 5pm, 6.30 - Park Avenue Hotel, 31 Rochester Drive 10pm; Sun: 12.30 - 5pm; closed on MRT: Buona Vista WHEN: Oct 8 & 9, Mon TEL: 6221-3969 6.30 - 9.30pm PRICE: $88++ a person INFO: www.madaboutsucre.com INFO: str.sg/JB67