Sunny
Zipping from place to place, it is not hard to come-by this Flores font(or equivalent), discoursing flowery ornateness; but selectively the late 80s or early 90s- rise of the simple, honest computer age. Powerpoint, spreadsheets, compact discs- where eateries were equally gold and relished for today.
Situated atop a craggy top, IVINS presents Peranakan cuisine. Where you want rice and meat dishes in sweet romantic sauces; something different from gilded chinese or cantonese found inside hotels or "on top of the building".
The flowers lovingly look-on beside the road- it encapsulates the off-beatness of an English or Irish pub, but a dark, cosy atmosphere of traditional dining experience. Together with peranakan delights thrilling the whole family, they will make this road a memorable one to go down!
Inside, the entire upholstery,{especially those which the gentlemen cannot help the ladies to seat at the table} are nailed to the wall in stiff, dark wood! Strangeness to a museum's chest, or a grand piano top.
Widow; kuro for the japanese, hitam here on our menus. The lifelong thread on black sesame, black pig, black glutinous rice and taro/yam. Ever so beratingly black, dressing-down to the very atoms.
And not to forget the nero, italy; black. The way we love and made known of it the hitam.
Sotong Hitam(SGD 7.50)
To make it a second hit, now we have sotong hitam! No more burbur pulut hitam! Or the oldfangled squid in squid ink neri di seppia. This is hitman stir-fried squid not in its own blood, but sweet bean sauce! Once in a while we indulge in the chinese peranakan; gravy, shallots, soy sauce, onions! Even the red and green capsicums were coated in a black finish- yummy. Squids as fresh as garden vegetables.
Conventional-looking, one shovels kidney beans in place of red beans! Extra work on the molars; extra pleasure.
P.S. And the price is unbeatable, not to mention the quality of foods!
