| FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 2018 | THE STRAITS TIMES | happenings life D5 FOOD Purple Sweet Potato, Salty Mung Beans Flavours From Hilton Rebecca Lynne Tan Food Correspondent recommends PROMOTIONS Hilton Singapore’s new selection of palm-size mooncakes includes six traditional baked options and four British Sunday Champagne mini snowskin flavours. New flavours Picks Brunch At Ash & Elm include purple sweet potato with The theme of Ash & Elm’s Sunday walnut ($36 nett for two pieces/ Champagne Brunch celebrates $64 for four pieces) and snowskin Britain’s two royal weddings, a royal flavours (from $64 for eight pieces) Food baby and England’s top-four finish at of salty mung beans with yuzu and the Fifa World Cup in Russia. Tasting honey and dark chocolate with platters comprising petit plates will crunchy pearls. showcase classic British food such as WHERE: D9 Cakery, Lobby Level Hilton London fish and chips, Lancashire Singapore, 581 Orchard Road cheese and Irish lamb chops. MRT: Orchard WHEN: Aug 25 - Sept 24, WHERE: Level 1 InterContinental 9.30am - 9.30pm PRICE: From $62 Singapore, 80 Middle Road nett a box; 30 per cent off for orders MRT: Bugis WHEN: Sun, noon - 3pm by Sept 2, 15 per cent off with certain PRICE: $138++ an adult (includes bank cards TEL: 6730-3392 free-flow Taittinger Brut INFO: E-mail [email protected] Champagne), $48++ a child TEL: 6825-1008 INFO: E-mail Taiwan Pineapple Cakes At [email protected] Din Tai Fung Din Tai Fung’s Taiwan Pineapple Sumire Yakitori House’s Cakes, a Taiwanese speciality, are New Menu baked in the restaurant chain’s Izakaya concept restaurant Sumire central kitchen in Taiwan and flown Yakitori House has launched a new to Singapore. menu. The crowd favourite, Meat WHERE: All Din Tai Fung restaurants Lovers Platter ($23.80++ for two or (except Manulife Centre) $42.80++ for four), comprises MRT: Various WHEN: Sept 3 - 24 Wagyu Zabuton Steak, Kagoshima PRICE: $23.80 nett (box of 10 pieces) Pork Shio Tare Yaki, Teba-Age, Tori INFO: dintaifung.com.sg Karaage and fries. WHERE: 01-88/89 Bugis Junction, 80 Middle Road MRT: Bugis WINE EVENTS WHEN: Mon - Thu: 11.30am - 3pm, TACOS AND MARGARITAS taco – grilled dory topped with red cabbage and a spicy, 5 - 10.30pm; Fri & Sat: 11.30am - 11pm; Maison Albert Bichot Wine PHOTOS: PABLO, Month-old Papi’s Tacos in Seah Street is the latest Mexican smoked chipotle aioli. The combination of flavour and Sun/public holidays: 11.30am - Dinner PAPI’S TACOS, taqueria to open here. It can get quite crowded, so be texture is a real winner. 10.30pm PRICE: $8.90++ - $29.80++; Greenwood Fish Market’s five-course REBECCA prepared to wait for a seat at this gritty, no-reservations The salsas, from mildly spicy to fiery, are housemade platter: $23.80++ - $42.80++ dinner will showcase the different LYNNE TAN eatery. too and the fresh, lively flavour of the salsa verde won my TEL: 6338-9963 INFO: E-mail aspects of wines from the [email protected] wine-maker Maison Albert Bichot . I love the margaritas – classic ($15) or strawberry ($18), heart over. Dishes include ocean trout confit blended with ice or shaken over ice. The flavour of the day You must save space for a slice of tres leches cake ($8) – Seoul Yummy Soju Day Specials (paired with Macon-Villages 2015) and ($18) when I dined there last week was pineapple – the only dessert on the menu. This lightly frosted cake In celebration of Soju Day, Seoul pan-seared duck breast (Bourgogne refreshingly sweet-tart and fabulous. There is also made with milk, condensed milk and evaporated milk looks Yummy has launched the Anju Style Rouge Secret de Famille 2015). a selection of tequila and mezcal. dense and heavy, but is quite the opposite. The airy cake ($27.80++) and Jjamppong Combo WHERE: 01-04/05 Sentosa Cove, Snack on tostadas, chips with guacamole and pico de has a lovely crumb and the perfect flavour. ($49.80++), and diners can enjoy a Quayside Isle, 31 Ocean Way gallo, and esquites (charred grilled corn, add a squeeze of WHERE: Papi’s Tacos, 39 Seah Street MRT: City Hall one-for-one Soju promotion ($19.90+) MRT: HarbourFront WHEN: Thu, 7pm lime for zip), then hone in on the tacos (from $11 for two). OPEN: 5pm to midnight (Mondays to Saturdays, with either dish. The Anju is a spread PRICE: $98++ a person The soft tortillas, which are made in-house from scratch, closed on Sundays) TEL: 6258-0701 INFO: E-mail hola@ of grilled meats such as chicken thigh, TEL: 6262-0450 INFO: E-mail are filled with ingredients such as marinated pork, steak, papis-tacos.com or go to www.papis-tacos.com. pork belly and short-plate beef, and [email protected] chicken, fish and shrimp. I am especially fond of the fish Walk-ins only tiger prawns and king oyster mushroom. The Jjamppong Army Veuve Clicquot: The Signature Stew boasts seafood such as prawns, Creations Of Jade mussels, clams and squid. This five-course dinner at Fullerton’s PANDAN KAYA CHEESE TART slice $5.50. I suggest a tart and drink WHERE (MRT): Seoul Yummy outlets, Jade will feature chef Leong Chee You can never go wrong with pandan set instead. For $8, you get a slice of Yeng’s creations paired with the including at 04-11 Bugis+, 201 Victoria and kaya. The pairing is an all-time the pandan kaya cheese tart and a champagnes of Veuve Clicquot, such Street (Bugis); 05-13 Causeway Point, favourite among most local diners choice of drink (priced between $5 as Yellow Label, Vintage 2008 and 1 Woodlands Square (Woodlands); here. and $7.50 each), which can range Vintage Rose 2008. B3-22 Ion Orchard, 2 Orchard Turn Japanese cheese tart specialist from coffee to iced matcha latte. WHERE: Jade, The Fullerton Hotel (Orchard) WHEN: Till Sept 30, 11.30am Pablo rolled out a seasonal The tart will be available until the Singapore, 1 Fullerton Square - 10pm PRICE: $27.80++ - $49.80++; MRT: Raffles Place WHEN: Thu, 7pm pandan kaya cheese tart (left) end of next month. one-for-one soju: $19.90++ PRICE: $108++ ($86.40++ for HSBC to cater to local taste buds WHERE: Pablo, two outlets – INFO: facebook.com/seoulyummy cardholders) TEL: 6319-4038 earlier this month. 01-02/03 Wisma Atria, 435 Orchard INFO: E-mail Here, a moist layer of sponge cake Road; and 02-K05/06 Nex, Haidilao Seletar Mall’s $19.80 [email protected] spread with kaya jam is sandwiched 23 Serangoon Central Sets between lush, pandan-coconut MRT: Orchard/Serangoon The hotpot restaurant is offering set Emilia Romagna Wine Dinner cheese filling. WHEN: Now until Sept 30 meals at $19.80++ each with an At Zafferano The cake and the brand’s OPEN: 10am to 10pm daily (Wisma option of mutton, US beef, black pork, Explore the epicurean history of the signature flaky pastry help to cut Atria), 10.30am to 10.30pm daily chicken or fish slices (100g). Each set Italian region of Emilia-Romagna with through the richness of the cheese (Nex) TEL: 6835-9269 (Wisma Atria), includes a choice of quarter soup a five-course dinner at Zafferano and filling. It is much less cloying than 6509 -0350 (Nex) INFO: E-mail base (Sichuan spicy, tomato, laksa, paired with wines from the region. the original version. [email protected] or chicken, three-delicacy , seafood or Highlights include a hearty antipasto A whole tart costs $19.90 and a go to www.pablo.com.sg Sichuan pickles), but not sauces, of deep-fried egg with sauteed beverages, fruit and snacks. mushrooms and Parma ham foam WHERE: 03-36/37 The Seletar Mall, (paired with B.IO Sangiovese di 33 Sengkang West Avenue Romagna 2016) and a tender roasted BRAISED DUCK KWAY TEOW COLD INANIWA MRT: Sengkang (Fernvale LRT) rack of veal (Drei Dona Sangiovese I much prefer thin kway teow when it UDON WHEN: Mon - Fri, 10.30am - 4pm; Riserva Pruno DOC 2005). comes to noodles. The flat rice Inaniwa Yosuke at Sun - Thu: 10pm - 6am; public holidays WHERE: Level 43 Ocean Financial noodles do a much better job of Wisma Atria is my excluded PRICE: $19.80++; seasoning Centre, 10 Collyer Quay MRT: Raffles soaking up sambal and gravy. go-to restaurant buffet: $4++ a person; beverage Place WHEN: Aug 24, 7pm Jin Ji Teochew Braised Duck & Kway for thin, smooth buffet: $3++ a person PRICE: $98++ a person TEL: 6282-5505/5506 Chap in Smith Street has customers inaniwa udon. It TEL: 6509-1488 INFO: E-mail who flock there for duck rice and kway brings in udon, INFO: E-mail [email protected] [email protected] chap, but I like the duck kway teow based on a Robert Parker Wine Advocate (right, $3). 150-year-old recipe, MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL Matter Of Taste Here, kway teow is tossed in a that is handmade in Akita Prefecture. The fifth edition of Robert Parker piquant housemade sambal and a The udon (above) is clean and silky – a joy to eat. Have Blue Pea Flower Flavour Wine Advocate’s Matter of Taste will herbal gravy flavoured with spices it cold or hot, in soup with beef ($16.80 for lunch, $24.80 From Goodwood feature more than 300 wines rated such as cinnamon and star anise. It is for dinner), in a curry gravy ($16.80 for lunch, $22.80 for Goodwood Park Hotel’s mooncake 90 or more Robert Parker points. then drizzled with garlic and shallot dinner) or as part of a set with donburi or items such as star this year is its new snowskin blue Besides the Walkabout Tasting, there oil before serving.