6. d’Good Cafe - for local fare with a European twist
Head chef James Lin takes a lot of care with his dishes, so plates served here are often imbibed with various textures, flavours and ingredients that are both surprising and delicious. Take the Hainanese Chicken Roulade & Risotto Balls ($19.50) for example. The humble Hainanese Chicken Rice is taken up several notches, with the dish’s fragrant rice made into crispy fried risotto balls instead and the main star, its chicken, served as a poached chicken roll.
We love that the balls are soft and aromatic, while the thigh meat is tender and juicy. But we especially applaud the use of foie gras to replace the usual chicken liver, and the addition of a cool and light Japanese cucumber spaghettoni for a refreshing bite.
Pasta lovers should try its Laksa Seafood pasta ($16) — spaghetti cooked in a spicy piquant laksa broth that is topped with fresh prawns, quail eggs, cockles and shrimp floss.
For a light bite, go for its deconstructed nasi lemak ($8) that is served in the form of three sushi pieces instead — fried silver sillago fish, otah and konbu egg are stacked on top of fragrant coconut rice and served with their house-made sambal chilli and ikan bilis.
Don’t forget to wash down the dishes with its Kopi Chendol ($8.50), an indulgent beverage of espresso, fresh milk and coconut milk topped with red beans, pandan jelly and a house-made coconut sablé. This dessert-in-a-cup will send you on a heady sugar rush.
d’Good Cafe’s latest outlet is at located at Level 1, #01-227 Jewel Changi Airport, 78 Airport Boulevard, Singapore 819666, tel: 6243 3188.
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