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THE MUSHROOM KING
He’s been doing it for ages, but it’s news to us! For more than
30 years, NUS professor Dr Tan Kok Kheng has been farming
mushrooms organically – no chemicals of any sort – at his
Mycofarm
, located in a small area off Yio Chu Kang Road,
where he produces up to 20 tons of delicious, health-promoting
fungi each month. Find the reasonably priced hiratakes,
king oysters, willow mushrooms and shitake oysters at Cold
Storage, NTUC (FairPrice), Prime, Giant and more. We have so
little opportunity to buy local produce.
mycofarm.com.sg
TEH FOR TWO
Impress visiting mums and aunts with a
Singapore Heritage
Afternoon Tea
at The Clifford Pier at The Fullerton Bay Hotel,
three tiers of treats showcasing uniquely Singaporean flavours
and created by popular local chef Shermay Lee (
pictured
).
Nibble on
bak kwa
jam sandwiches and chow down on chilli
crab
bao
and bite-sized mini-
popiah
, just three of the eight
savoury and eight sweet items – very auspicious! – served with
kopi or
teh tarik
(“pulled” tea).
Book at 6597 5266.
One of Michelin-starred UK chef Jason Atherton’s
stable (Pollen, Esquina and The Library), the weekend
brunch menu of this intimate new incarnation of
Keong Saik Snacks suggests British comfort food with
(to us) a cool Aussie twist. Service is warm but very
leisurely – perfect if you’re not in a hurry. Proof of a
real chef is your egg’s properly set white and lava-like
yolk, like Chef Ayo’s
foie gras Íberico pork Scotch
egg
($17), encased in meltingly flavourful sausage
and bearing little resemblance to its greasy, bouncy-
hard supermarket cousins.
Grilled green asparagus
and creamy burrato
on pickled beetroot ($17) is a
lighter starter, but equally memorable.
The Big English
($19) – three fried eggs, bacon, sausages and all
the trimmings – will satisfy a heartier appetite, as will
The Study’s take on
eggs Benedict
(
pictured
) which
comes with an anguishing choice of citrus hollandaise,
smoked salmon or crispy bacon. To use up an entire
weekend’s allocation of calories in one sitting, desserts
include a
vanilla rice pudding
with an island of zingy
mango sorbet, and still-warm, light-as-air sugared
doughnuts
served with salted caramel cream. Follow
that with a long afternoon nap. Saturdays, Sundays and
public holidays from 11am to 3pm.
49 Keong Saik
Road. 6221 8338 | the-study.sg
REVOLVING DOORS
• Restaurant Ember at Hotel 1929 (50 Keong Saik
Road), which closed in March, has been refurbished
and reopened under Chef Sufian Zain, offering three-
course lunches ($42) and four-course dinners ($88).
• Taking over the space vacated by Baker & Cook,
Kha and Bomba, PS Café Petit and ChopSuey have
new outlets in Martin Road.
• El Mero Mero Cocina Mexicana has opened at
Chijmes, presenting a modern take on Mexican
traditional.
• Also new at Chijmes is Japanese-influenced Asian
gastropub Here & There.
Brunch This Month:
THE STUDY’S WEEKEND
PUNCH BRUNCH