We've been seeing/hearing a bit about Wild Coco. Curiosity prevailed. This was their new shop at Boat Quay (84 Circular Road, tel : +65 9119 3822) not far from Sonny's Pizza.
This drink was called Bossy Balonglong. Most of us that know the fruit used it in would recognize it as buah long long or ambarella; a sour-ish astringent citrus fruit that usually tries to pucker your lips inwards. This juice came with a preserved plum and was pretty refreshing.
Food arrived pretty fast. This was nasi lemak with their chicken thigh berempah and their burnt green chilli. I was imagining that the burnt green chilli which they used sambal hijau to describe would actually taste like sambal hijau. It didn't quite. This had noticeable bitterness with oil richness and little salt. Not the kind like Sari Ratu.
Peanuts were toasted. Sambal was pretty onion-y and packed a bit of heat. Rice nicely infused with coconut milk and sufficiently salted that it was delicious on its own. Which kinda made the sambal redundant for me. Not a fan of their fried chicken - it has a decent marinate but not in a way that ticks my boxes. Not to mention that the burnt green chilli taste was the most of it.
Seafood laksa's nice. Said seafood included a couple of prawns, a scallop and some razor clams; not bad but I wouldn't use 'great' to describe them. A couple of possibilities methinks - natural flavour/sweetness from the seafood was low or the gravy has masked those. Mostly likely both. There's also sliced fish cake and tau pok.
But the gravy rocked. With a rich lemak viscosity it did. Low on the dried shrimp flavour but still heart cloggingly satisfying. Personally, I felt that a good job was done with baseline of the laksa. Their seafood was just a luxe layering that didn't feel so luxurious.
Kueh binka with ice cream tasted... pretty mundane. Not bad tasting to be clear about it. We were thinking that with the prices we were paying, we'd at least be getting standards from Sinpopo or Chalk Farm.
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