Desiree Koh:
The Tom Yam Veganburg - wholewheat ciabatta, home to a crisp soy patty and slathered with tom yam sauce! This joint rocks!
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At Cafe De Hong Kong - crispy fish skin, definitely very amusing bouche.
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Salted egg yolk prawns at Cafe de Hong Kong.
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Charcoal tofu in an egg white-inflected gravy and topped with crab at Cafe de Hong Kong.
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Coffee spare ribs, buzzworthy.
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A whole grouper in black bean sauce - bones, thug and harmony.
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A selection of sausages - wax poetic.
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Pork belly over rice given the cocotte treatment.
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I hadn't been to Cafe de Hong Kong for a while and I had forgotten how good this French toast is. Inside, peanut butter.
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Custard puffs or "profiteroles," Singapore style.
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Sunday supper at Mugliston Manor means my mom opens her freezer and there is a whole thing of oxtail that has been stewing in its gravy for the last three weeks. Magically, it turns into this (there is udon buried under, soaking up all the oxtail juices).
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Nobody does lap mei fan like my mom - steamed rice kept overnight for that slightly grainy texture, a plethora of Chinese sausages (pork, duck, blood) sliced and splayed over, cooked with some magical (how else to describe) concoction of a dark soy-based