Wandering Fel

 “Hmm, what taste good nowadays? How about something with mentaiko?” Fel has never rejected invitation on eating pasta because after all, her love for pasta grew when she was studying her bachelor of arts in England. Instant pasta is enough to make the heart of this 30-something years old lady feels contented. Fel has heard from Vivi, her high-school buddy who has a mentaiko-lover husband, that there is this yummy mentaiko pasta sold by a Japanese restaurant in NEX at Serangoon. Apparently, it can make your love to mentaiko grows. But NEX is located at Serangoon and it will take Fel probably one hour to commute there from her house in the West. Thankfully, the restaurant, Kabe no Ana has another location in the west at Jurong Point. Sometimes the universe works together to open the path to your goal. In this case, mentaiko pasta goal.

Overall, Fel thinks that Kabe no Ana is a great place to have your fix of Japanese pasta (especially the mentaiko sauce, yumz!) and she would love to come back to try out their other pasta (maybe carbonara) and lovely cakes at the counter

 I was actually planning to watch the football match between Sweden and England in Brotzeit at Westgate. But then, bae’s dad texted us saying that I could come over to their house to watch the match instead. Hmm, since the offer to sit at comfy sofa sounds too good to reject (despite the fact that I’m watching football with my uhh...potential father-in-law), I decided to OK the offer. 

This means we no longer went to Brotzeit for dinner and hence, needed to decide another dinner place pronto. That’s when it came to both of us that we have not tried the Korean diner, NY Night Market at Westgate. Whenever anyone mention night market, the image of the roadstall night market keeps flashing into my mind. The thing is, the concept of the Taiwanese or Thai night market don’t work in Singapore. So, NY Night Market is just another air-conditioned restaurant in shopping mall in Singapore. Hope that does not really disappoint your expectation. But hey, the decoration of the place seems interesting, the design of the plate is quirky and they are blasting CN Blue’s songs so all is good, right?

Right, let’s dive into what does NY Night Market serve. Since it’s night market concept with Korean twist, the dishes sold in NY Night Market are mostly finger food (e.g. Korean rice cakes, fried chicken, mac and cheese). However, NY Night Market does have heavy carbo-loaded dishes such as pasta and rice. I was so tempted to eat dak galbi pasta so I opted for Pasta de Dak Galbi while bae is more interested in eating steak. 

Although dak galbi + melted cheese + pasta sound good on paper, NY Night Market’s rendition of dak galbi is way too spicy (and pepperish) for my palate. I started to have runny nose and feels like crying (omaigat, am I eating that sadistic Korean instant noodle) after a few bites of the pasta. My bae’s steak is not that bad in term of spiciness but it feels too black pepperish for me too. I wonder how much pepper do the chefs sprinkle in the food here. If NY Night Market wants us to buy drinks, this tactic really works because we immediately made an order to buy strawberry smoothie to quench our fiery tongues. I still recall that hot feeling on my lips.

I hope the chef will use less pepper going forward but until that happen, I don’t think I’ll make a second visit to NY Night Market (hmm but then, how am I supposed to know?). LOL.