28 May, 2010
The bombshell in front of us is the rail! and The Rail Mall. The skeletons of a malaysia-turned singapore. This is ironically not The Rail Mall, but what you will see in front of the rail mall.
Scouring the district we feel (pampered yet grateful) for fairprice; extras, cold storage, watsons. The people here only have The Rail Mall.
What's about it is that it has Galbiati Gourmet backing it up. Galbiati Gourmet Deli, and that will suffice. Freshly made pastas, pizza dough, breads, cakes, biscotti covered in raw flour even; lying at the front counter, according to their composition mix. Seeing so many wet mounds it is more exotic than viewing a menagerie.
And of course some of them which ends up in this meal. And after 5.30pm- yes the golden time 5.30pm, they would be subjected to availability(a rise from their slumber, under the chef's initiation to start kneading them). A note to take is the chocolate-brown pasta, naturally dyed with cocoa.
Fettuccine alla Polpa di Granchio (SGD 19.00)
Damp, thick, coloured things, one couldn't help ordering these fresh pastas- so that longevity, probably, could be extended with a little experience on eating them. Together with the sunset-cream, there couldn't have been an odder combination- with the glistening black pasta; lending a salty spicy kick to round up the sweet crabmeat(Granchio), and tangy tomatoes(Polpa-tomato pulp)! Topsy-turvy- light coloured noodles in usually darkish sauces now turns around to seep into the carbohydrates main- exhilaration that the fettuccine can-not be moistened by the orange of the cream! And sticking this way in the digestive tract.
Fettucine(Verdi) alle Vongole e Pepe Nero (SGD 18.00)
This dish was made upon request- tagliolini best paired with thin-coating sauce(vongole); but spinach pasta(available after 5.30pm) comes only in broad-cut fettucine. Nevertheless, novelty overrides eating pleasure. I got the chef's point though- the thick fettucine became dry in the thin wine sauce; yet, at 5.30pm, the crisp sheets became an excellent sandwich wrap! Tortilla snack with superior patty- fat juicy clams and their ebony shells.
P.S. And on the subject clams; this was the first time I had tried it- with proper recollection. An additional plate to hold empty shells? I have indeed become rusty. Mussel shells and blue-toothed fish, they are some of my prized possession with conquering their meat, when younger.
