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| FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 2019 | THE STRAITS TIMES | happenings life D5

FOOD INFO: 6774-0122 (One-North) e-mail mj1n@ goodwoodparkhotel.com; PROMOTIONS 6730-1704 (Scotts Road), e-mail min_jiang@ goodwoodparkhotel.com

Osaka Cocina Nikkei Pop-Up Feast Of Abundance At Lime At Nami Lime Restaurant’s feast features Nikkei restaurant Osaka will debut its dishes such as baked seabass with first collaboration in Asia and housemade spicy glaze, stir-fried at Shangri-La Hotel’s Nami sliced pork with leek and spicy bean Restaurant & Bar, which will showcase sauce, drunken seafood bowl (clams, the blending of Japanese and oyster, baby lobster and mussel), Peruvian cultures. Osaka’s Nikkei roasted chicken with Sichuan Ceviche, its take on the iconic pepper-infused BBQ sauce, roasted Peruvian dish, features scallops and beef sirloin and Lime’s signature baby white fish cured with wasabi sauce. lobster . For dinner, there are The signature Inka Nigiri Duo unlimited servings of baby lobster comprises tuna tataki and and pan-fried foie gras. The Pisco-braised pork jowl. Prosperity Yusheng Platter ($48++ - WHERE: Level 24 Tower Wing, $88++), served with fresh Shangri-La Hotel Singapore, slices, crispy fish skin and gold coin 22 Orange Grove Road MRT: Orchard/ bak kwa, is complimentary for groups Stevens WHEN: Jan 21 - 27, 6 - 10pm of at least 10 people for dinner and PRICE: $188++ a person, Super Lunch Sunday. Peruvian-inspired cocktails $24++ WHERE: Lobby level, Parkroyal on each TEL: 6213-4398 INFO: E-mail Pickering, 3 Upper Pickering Street [email protected] MRT: Chinatown WHEN/PRICE: Jan 18 - Feb 19; lunch (Mon - Sat, noon - Sakuraya Student Set Meal 2.30pm): $68++ an adult/$48++ a Fish Mart Sakuraya is offering a child; Super Lunch (Sun, 12.30 - Students’ Set ($9.80 nett) at its 3.30pm): $98++/$58++; dinner (daily, outlets. The Tori Karaage Set 6.30 - 10.30pm) $88++/$58++ comprises fried chicken (three TEL: 6809-8899 INFO: E-mail pieces), California maki (four pieces) [email protected] and half udon. Other sets such as Una Tama Don, Gyudon, Tendon and Tori Celebration Of Spring Karaage Oyako Don come with pickles At Zafferano Wong Ah Yoke can choose only one main hawker Roti Prata With Dhalcha And Fish and miso . Zafferano’s Italian Table Saturday Food Critic dish. Curry (above, $12) comes from WHERE (MRT): 02-01 The Seletar Mall Champagne Brunch features Chinese The hawker dishes are different Springleaf Prata Place near Upper (Sengkang, Fernvale LRT); B1-50 West New Year-inspired dishes, including recommends from what you find at lunch, with Thomson Road. It is not as crisp or Coast Plaza (Clementi); 01-32 crispy-skinned porchetta of lighter fare that is supposedly more fluffy as some roti prata I have eaten, Anchorpoint (Queenstown); B1-84D slow-roasted pork belly and chicken suitable for breakfast – although I but is pretty good nonetheless. The Parkway Parade (Eunos/Dakota) think that many Singaporeans would fish curry, which is flavourful but not broth with tortellino, inspired by the WHEN: Weekdays (except public Food Picks BREAKFAST HAWKER SPREAD not think twice about eating most of overly fiery, is a winner. traditional Chinese dumpling soup. AT LOBBY LOUNGE these at any time of the day. ($19) comes from holidays), 2.30 - 5pm PRICE: $9.80 WHERE: Level 43 Ocean Financial I love the hawker dishes that are part The most obvious breakfast item is The Coconut Club in Ann Siang Hill. nett, dine-in only, one order a student Centre, 10 Collyer Quay MRT: Raffles of the Shangri-La Hotel, Singapore’s Soft-Boiled Eggs With The rice has a slight whiff of coconut pass TEL: 6214-3736 (Seletar Mall), Place WHEN: Jan 26, noon - 3pm Lobby Lounge lunch buffet, ($12), with a delicious kaya from a milk fragrance – which I could not 6773-6973 (West Coast Plaza), PRICE: $98++ - $128++ a person especially the bak chor mee and recipe by the hotel’s executive chef. detect when I ate the dish at the 6474-2495 (Anchorpoint), 6345-4714 TEL: 6509-1488 beef . So when it started a Just enough is spread on the toast original restaurant – but overall, the (Parkway Parade) INFO: E-mail [email protected] similar concept for breakfast on to balance a thin slice of butter nasi lemak is decent, not weekends, I could not wait to check it between the bread slices. outstanding. Prosperity Reunion Package out. The Fried ($12) is WHERE: The Lobby Lounge, There are six hawker dishes which pretty good too. Also created Shangri-La Hotel, Singapore, At Sheraton Towers you can order a la carte or as part of in-house, it is the old-fashioned type 22 Orange Grove Road MRT: Orchard Families having their Chinese New a semi-buffet priced at $29.50 a with pieces of rice cake fried with WHEN: Saturdays, Sundays and Singapore Debut For Year reunion meals at Sheraton person. The semi-buffet includes sticky dark soya sauce and bits of public holidays, 7 to 11am Hock Wong Bak Kwa Towers can get privileges and items such as , chwee pickled radish. It is delicious when PRICE: Buffet is $29.50 for adults, Hock Wong, which began in Kuala freebies. Those who book at least five kueh and chee cheong fun, but you eaten hot from the wok. $14.75 for children Lumpur more than a decade ago and tables will enjoy free-flow soft opened in Johor Baru in 2015, set up a and Chinese tea (for four hours), factory in Singapore last year to offer festive cookies and nuts for the its bak kwa here. Already being sold pre-event reception, waiver of DELICIOUS $35 SPANISH SET LUNCH online, it will be available at pop-up corkage fee, auspicious goodie bags La Cala, the Spanish restaurant at Duo Galleria near stalls in some malls. For the festive for all guests and an $88 F&B Beach Road, offers a good-value three-course set season, it comes in gift boxes. voucher. A minimum booking of 15 lunch at $35 nett. There are three choices for starters and five choices WHERE/WHEN:Pop-ups (till Feb 3) at tables gets a complimentary barrel of for mains, but is fixed. Suntec City (from Mon), Westgate 22.7-litre Carlsberg draught beer, The starters are the most impressive, especially the (Jan 14), VivoCity (Jan 15), Nex (Jan 17), while a booking of 25 tables or more Chicken Cannelloni With Bechamel And Parmigiano Marina Square (Jan 18), Causeway gets two complimentary barrels of Cheese. You get three cannelloni (pasta rolls filled with Point & Waterway Point (both Jan 21) beer and a weekend stay in a deluxe minced chicken), which is generous for a starter, baked and Tampines Mall (Jan 23) room with breakfast buffet for two. in a delicious creamy, cheesy sauce. PRICE: $33 (600g) & $49 (1kg); WHERE: 39 Scotts Road MRT: Newton Poached Egg With Parmentiere And Button Bacon: $48 (600g) & $72 (1kg); WHEN: Jan 21 - Feb 19 PRICE: From Mushroom Cream is yummy too. It is like a thick and gift boxes: $148 (five 600g boxes) & $888++ (table for 10) creamy mushroom soup, with bits of potato in it and a $245 (five 1kg boxes) TEL: 6839-5845 INFO: E-mail poached egg in the centre. TEL: 6904-5520 INFO: E-mail [email protected] Among the main courses, my vote goes to [email protected] or Mushrooms Paella (below), which looks simple with just pieces of champignon on a layer of rice, but hidden go to hockwong.com.sg Festive Dishes And Local among the grains are chopped pieces of mushroom as Favourites At Feast@East well. The rice, cooked perfectly till it has just a bit of bite Lapis, Tarts And Other CNY At the Huat Ar! buffet , diners can left, is really flavourful. Goodies From Pan Pacific enjoy a mix of festive dishes and local Meatballs With Baby Calamari And Potatoes is Pan Pacific Singapore’s Chinese New favourites. delicious too, though the serving could be bigger. Year goodies include a lapis selection WHERE: Level 3 Grand Mercure The sole dessert, Char-grilled Pineapple With Toffee ($58+ - $62+, 1kg) – Lapis Surabaya, Singapore Roxy, 50 East Coast Road, Sauce, Crumbles And Vanilla Ice Cream, is pretty good, Rainbow Kueh Lapis, Classic Kueh Roxy Square MRT: Eunos/Dakota so I have no complaints there. Lapis and Prune Kueh Lapis. The WHEN/PRICE: Today - Feb 3, Feb 11 - If you are dining in a group, I would suggest you order RAMEN GETS OYSTER BOOST different dishes and share everything. That way, you Pineapple Combination ($58+, 19; lunch (noon - 2.30pm): $58.90++ Konjiki Hototogisu, the one-Michelin-starred ramen shop get to try more items and, because serving sizes can be 18 pieces) features three flavours: an adult/ $29.90++ a child/$41.90 in Tokyo, already has one outlet here at Chijmes serving quite different, everyone gets enough to eat. traditional , charcoal nett a senior/$37.90 nett a pioneer; noodles in a delectable clam broth. WHERE: La Cala, 01-40/43 Duo Galleria, 7 Fraser Street pineapple tart with Korean yuzu tea, dinner (6 - 9.30 pm): $62.90++ an Last month, a second outlet opened at Great World City, MRT: Bugis WHEN: Set lunch available on Mondays to and Japanese matcha tarts with red adult/$31.90++ a child/$44.90 nett a but the noodles here come in an oyster consomme instead Saturdays, 11.30am to 2.30pm PRICE: $35 nett, includes bean. Other items include traditional senior/$39.90 nett a pioneer – a new flavour that is not available at any of its other coffee or tea TEL: 6282-9200 treasure pots or pen cai ($368+ - TEL: 6340-5665 INFO: E-mail outlets, including in Tokyo. $699+); yu sheng platters ($38+ - [email protected] There are no actual oysters, but the flavour gets a boost $198+); barbecued treats such as from an oyster paste created by chef-owner Atsushi PHOTOS: crispy whole ($338+) and Keyaki Yu Sheng Platters Yamamoto. It is added to the noodles as a topping and you HOTOTOGISU roasted duck ($78+); hampers ($318+ Keyaki’s Wafu Yu Sheng features can taste the broth before stirring it in to see what RAMEN; - $438+); koi gao ($30.80+). generous servings of tuna, salmon, difference it makes. MDM LING WHERE: Pickup at Hai Tien Lo, Level 3 I find the soup here not as sweet as the clam broth at BAKERY; yellowtail and tobiko, while the Chijmes, but it has its own charm with deeper notes. SHANGRI-LA Pan Pacific Singapore, 7 Raffles Premium Yu Sheng includes sea There are two versions available: Oyster Shio Ramen HOTEL, Boulevard MRT: Promenade urchin and lobster. Both (above, $15.90), with garlic lemon butter, red onions and SINGAPORE; WHEN: Jan 21 - Feb 19, 11am - 8pm (till Japanese-inspired yu sheng are oyster oil; and Oyster Paitan Ramen ($15.90), which WONG AH YOKE 5pm on Feb 4) PRICE: Varies topped with ponzu sauce and contains miso as well. I prefer the shio version for its TEL: 6826-8240 INFO: E-mail available only for dine-in. cleaner and lighter taste. [email protected] WHERE: Level 4 Pan Pacific Singapore, The ramen comes with slices of and you can top or go to pacificmarketplace.sg 7 Raffles Boulevard MRT: Promenade it up with side orders such as soft-boiled egg ($2). WHEN: Jan 22 - Feb 19, 11.30am - WHERE: Hototogisu Ramen, 01-143 Great World City, New Yu Sheng Stars At Min Jiang 1 Kim Seng Promenade MRT: Orchard OPEN: 11.30am to 2.30pm & 6.30 - 10.30pm 10pm daily The Fruitful Abundance Yu Sheng with PRICE: $138++ platter whole abalone in raspberry and sour TEL: 6826-8240 INFO: E-mail plum sauce ($118++ small, $168++ [email protected] large, dine-in at Min Jiang at RING IN CHINESE NEW YEAR the Rabbit and those born under One-North) features fruit such as Goodies From Carlton Hotel WITH THESE that sign can expect an excellent peaches, dragon fruit, honeydew, The Alaskan Crab Lo Hei ($138 - $238 I had not heard of Mdm Ling Bakery year ahead. mangoes and kiwi. There will be nett) and Carlton Premium Pineapple even though it has been around The 12 types of cookies and nuggets of ingot-shaped yuzu jelly Tarts ($28+, eight pieces) are the since 1991, but last week, a carton of snacks are good too, especially the with strawberries and six baby signature takeaway goodies from its Chinese New Year goodies premium kueh bangkit, which is abalones topped with red tobiko to Carlton Hotel, while Deep-Fried Fish landed on my office table. light and fragrant. make a crown. The version at Min It contained 12 containers of The only bummer is the price, Skin with Egg Yolk ($22.80, 250g) is a various cookies and snacks often which, at $128 for the Jiang in Goodwood Park Hotel – new item. The Longevity Pen Cai eaten during the festival, such as limited-edition set, is rather high. Prosperity Fa Cai Yu Sheng ($168++, ($408 to $688, for six to 10 people) pineapple balls, love letters and But you can buy the snacks large only) – is served on a plate with a includes baby abalone, scallops, sea shrimp rolls. individually too, at prices that range drawing of eight pigs enjoying a stroll cucumber and dried oysters. Also The interesting thing is that each from $13.80 for the cookies and comprises raw salmon slices, available are items such as abalone has a label that not only describes to $24.80 for the cranberry abalone and housemade bak kwa. yu sheng ($128 to $228), roast duck the contents, but is also printed with florentine. WHERE (MRT): Min Jiang at ($78) and koi ($28). a different animal from the Chinese WHERE: Mdm Ling Bakery One-North, 5 Rochester Park WHERE: 76 Bras Basah Road MRT: City zodiac. Plus, there is a short PRICE: From $13.80 a can, (One-North); Min Jiang, Goodwood Hall/Bras Basah WHEN: Jan 21 - Feb prediction on what to expect in the $128 for a set of 12 TEL: 8787-4142 Park Hotel, 22 Scotts Road (Orchard/ 19 PRICE: Various TEL: 6349-1292 coming year for those born under a INFO: E-mail hello@ particular sign. For example, green mdmlingbakery.com or go to Newton) WHEN: Jan 18 - Feb 19, INFO: Email restaurants@ pea cookies belong to the Year of www.mdmlingbakery.com 11.30am - 2.30pm & 6.30 -10.30pm carltonhotel.sg or go to PRICE: $118++ - $168++ www.signatures.carltonhotel.sg