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Achar pickles spears.
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Mini chicken curry.
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Another look.
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Loaded potato skins, Singapore-style.
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Sweet cherry tomatoes.
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Thai-style mussels.
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The signature laksa, also known as Singapore's best laksa.
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KanaShiok! wrapped in thinly sliced pork, eaten with paos.
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Braised pork knuckle pieces, wrapped in lettuce leaves. Talk about a knuckle sandwich.
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Fried olive rice, the KanaShiok! way.
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The signature KanaShiok! olive leaves condiment and culinary accoutrement, a belly shiok taste from Ade's Kitchen.
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Fried olive rice, topped off with KanaShiok! Ulimtate super power food.
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White carrot soup, lovingly boiled over a charcoal fire.
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Leftover baby potatoes sauteed lightly in butter, drizzled with bacon bits and chives. Sour cream at your own risk.
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Panfried beef noodles - I can never stop eating this. I want to be in that scene from Lady And The Tramp.
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Mom's ingenious idea to wrap mesclun greens in slices of roast beef, adorned with cherry tomatoes. Because a salad can't just be a salad with her.
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A resplendent seafood paella - plump pieces of juicy seafood resting atop fluffy Spanish rice just spiced right with tomatoes.
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Chunks of lamb, stewed overnight in an ingenious offhand gravy of tomatoes, mint, garlic and ginger.
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A simple salad of parma, mesclun greens, feta and cherry tomatoes. Secret weapon ingredient: bits of fresh custard apple!
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Attack of the killer cherry tomatoes! Stuffed with fresh mango from the garden, these little guys slay. Man, do they slay.
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Bourdain knows laksa, an indulgent local dish that's rice noodles in curry gravy. But does he know my mom makes the most lavish, extravagant version?
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Presenting - Hokkien Mee, in black and white.
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A version of Singapore's Hokkien Mee - on many top 10 lists of local must-eat dishes. Steeped in prawn stock stewed for days, the flavor is unbelievably unbeatable.
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Here's the version with a nod to our neighbors up north in Malaysia - Hokkien Mee with wide egg noodles in a thicker dark sauce, although the philosophy of the dish remains the same.
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All dressed up with only one place to go - your gastro-intestinal tract!
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Mee siam - just like the laksa, you won't find a better one in Singapore. I promise you.
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Paru fried in gloriously hearty flavor with sambal goreng. Take a guess at what paru is - give up? Cow's lungs.
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Beef ribs braised in juices all day over a charcoal fire.
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More beef stewed with spices - we mopped this up with freshly toasted baguette.
