🍝 Aglio Olio Pasta
📍Pasta Express (@pastaexpress.sg)
📌 SMU Connexion / NTU
💰 $3.30 base (+$0.60 / $1.20 per ingredient)
One fine Friday afternoon, I visited my friend at SMU with the motive of trying the famous Pasta Express stall. Passing by SMU always reminds me of how if I had brains, I should be studying in Uni right now, but I'm not smart so I dropped out of JC instead while all my former J1 classmates are off getting their degrees. But that's a different story. I've been wanting to try Pasta Express for a really long time and I finally did it!
Pasta Express allows you to choose from 3 bases (aglio olio, carbonara and tomato) and add on a minimum of 3 ingredients. I chose to add a sous vide egg, onions and mushrooms because I decided to be a healthful, meat-free goddess. Actually I ordered the chicken breast too but the stall vendor didn't hear me so let's just pretend that I decided to be a PETA advocate for a day and go meat-free ok?
The aglio olio is hella BUSSINNN it's flavourful with a nice amount of chopped garlic and chilli to give it a bit of a spicy kick. I generously doused my aglio olio in parmesan and chilli flakes because I evidently have no shame and t'was BUSSINNNNN x2. The sous vide egg was cooked perfectly and was so soft and runny. The mushrooms tasted like those canned kinds but who cares it was good. Onions were kinda drowned out cuz they were cooked and the flavour disappeared so give this ingredient a skip.
My friend got the chicken pieces and I didn't try them but for $1.20 you get like 5 or so little cubes soooo yeah skip. Just go vegetarian for Pasta Express cuz the meat portions are too tiny for the price imo.
Fun fact, I ordered this during lunch hour with my friend and the stall owner gave me a student discount even though I didn't ask for it and didn't have a lanyard or anything. Shiok. I would 100% sneak into SMU and piggyback off of my SMU friend again to get that student price. Its worth the potential humiliation once the store owners realise I'm actually an impostor and kick me out of the smu space craft.
⭐ Rating: 8.9/10
🤑 worth the price: yeee
🦖 would I buy again: ofc
💍 would I marry: yesir
