After seeing Burpplers @ShawnLoh and @XingWeiChua’s recent posts about this new-ish Chinese eatery (they opened last month), I decided to lunch there this afternoon. What I liked most is their variety of appetisers that I‘d be happy to fill up on. In fact, we had more of those than the hot dishes today.
Pictured here is the first few that landed on our table. My favourite of these was the Organic Okra with Pickled Chillies ($6++). The lady’s fingers were cooked perfectly for juicy crunchiness and devoid of fibrousness (my pet peeve), but it was the chilli and garlic topping that‘s the star with its very appetising balance of sour, salty and spicy. I felt it bore a similarity to the “sambal belado” served at Nasi Padang stalls, not that there’s anything wrong with that.
The Pork Trotter Jelly ($8++) was pretty good too. Although I found the sweetness in the accompanying curls of passionfruit-infused cucumber a bit much, they did offset the savouriness of the jelly pleasantly enough.
As for the Shredded Pork Ears ($6++), well, I wish the ears weren’t sliced so fine because I feel the whole point of eating that part of the pig is to be able to enjoy the crunchy cartilage. On the whole though, as the pig’s ears were tossed with blanched beansprouts in a fragrant oil, I was picking at it non-stop.