Peranakan Feasts Not To Miss

Every meal at @folkloresg should include the 4 Angled Bean Salad. Meticulously cut into very thin slices, the four-angled beans are tossed with small cubes of mangos, red and green chillies, ginger flower and kaffir lime leaves in a mouthwatering sauce made with sambal belachan.
Heritage-style cooking can produce really rich results (which is precisely why I enjoy the dishes here), so the crunchy brightness from by this zingy salad makes for a welcome cut-through.

Here is real black magic.
Those posts on Instagram of @folkloresg's #trending "Sambal Buak Keluak Fried Rice"? Well, this bewitching paste in deepest shade of midnight is its ground zero.
Since young, I have always preferred a plate (or two) of plain white rice to go with the rich flavours of my grandma's Peranakan dishes. I feel that all the effort that'd gone into the making in order to achieve the distinctive taste of each dish, should be appreciated by savouring it in its full glory. And white rice is the best blank canvas.
The point of my spiel (yes, there's one) is THIS Sambal Buak Keluak ($22++) is a damn good dish to order! Don't question the price because the amount of work to push out just one bowl is unbelievable. Go ask any Peranakan bibik.
So the way I like to eat is to rotate between different dishes. Once every minute or so, I'm back to spoon on this mildly spicy, velvety pitch black paste to mix with my rice. Then I take my time to savour it because that's the way to do ambrosia justice.