Platypus Kitchen, Bugis Junction

This (200 Victoria Street, #03-29 Bugis Junction, tel : +65 6333 4434) was the same group that operates Platypus Lobster Shack at China Square which does pastas and risottos. Apparently, they have brought over a few of their items on the menu from the lobster shack into this restaurant. Items like their allegedly limited crustacean bowl and some of their lobster rolls. What they do not have here, is the option for their lobster rolls to be ordered without the set. The set here comes with fries and not chips.

This was a little disappointing. I was looking forward to their crustacean bowl which featured a plethora of items including uni creme with the lobster. In execution, most of the flavours were lost except for the aburi-ed cheddar, the lobster and perhaps those fish roe. The rest of the stuff were a riot of flavours that couldn't identify itself. They could have taken out the uni cream and passed on the savings to us and no one would be wiser miss it. The portion was small for what they charged but it tasted pretty good.

The lobsters from their roll here were a level down from the ones at the shack. The meat was literally shreds, not even small chunks. All that butter poaching didn't even leave behind much of butter flavour. 

That urchin and lobster bisque is really just at best a cream of crustacean soup. It's not a bisque. I could buy frozen bisque from Fassler, microwave it and it would taste a lot more like a real lobster bisque. No uni flavours too. Which made us very glad that we didn't shell out more for their uni roll. 

Their crab cakes were horrible. The meat was obviously frozen and minced to the point close to being mushy. One could also see that a sizeable percentage of those cakes were the breaded crust.

I wonder if their pastas would fare better.