Feeling like you're stuck in a box? (Also, Moose says he likes Ikea). Worried that you got off at the wrong station (former outpost of Singapore's former railway to Malaysia)?
Failing to find nice places to swim (former military "pool" near Mt. Faber)?
We were too, so we went to the forest to find some new ideas.
Mostly, we found leaves.
But then we saw Jack tree and his fruit.
And the common passiflora (passion fruit flower) with its pleasing geometry, which gave us an idea for a new form of entertainment suitable to commemorate our friends' sad departure from Singapore.
Beautiful culinatious Michelinish home food such as this Batik roll. So pretty, and even better when served with a spiced dark cherry pickled coulis, right?
The idea is that you make/order standard yummy things, and then serve and garnish them pretentiously!
Naming dishes by their components sounds expensiver. Garnishing cheeseballs with gold flakes impresses your guests. It's important to finish the dishes live, with flakes, fires, foams, and fermentations.
These are my corn empanadas with home brined ketchup and microgreens, served on perilla leaf. It sounds better than "I made ketchup".
Chicken and waffles were the last appetizer before the potato bread with multiple home-flavoured butters.
Chargrilled vegetable medley with pickled lemons, superfluous tomatoes, pretentious garnish peas, and homemade kefir.
There were special effects and petit fours of course.
We were joined by our Level 1 ("I know what Riesling is now") sommelier Barry.
We made two mistakes. First, you have to take pictures of your friends enjoying the life-changing food, or it's not real on IG. Secondly, we had to see how the Batik Swiss roll cake was made. Very inelegant.
