Candlenut

The dishes are absolutely delicious, perfect in color, aroma and taste. The rich, savory sauce goes perfectly with rice. Highly recommended for friends visiting from China. 菜品十分好吃 色香味俱全 汤汁浓郁下饭 很适合中国来玩的朋友

Candlenut’s dessert take on Buah Keluak (Truffle of the east)
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A scoop of Buah Keluak ice-cream is mixed with 80% Valhrona chocolate, served on a bed of salted caramel, chocolate crumble and chilli specks. And then topped with warm milk chocolate espuma
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The buah keluak ice-cream itself has an nice interesting combination flavours of bitterness, earthiness and a tinge of sourness
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After mixing it with the salty sweet caramel, smooth warm milk chocolate espuma, chili specks and chocolate crumble, it produce a nice harmony of bitter, salty, sweet, sour and spicy flavours
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But when the chocolate coated pop rocks touch my mouth and started to pop non-stop like a mini firework, it made my mouth feel like a theatrical orchestra and managed to uplift the existing bitter-salty-sweet-sour-spicy flavours
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It is glazed with kicap manis, grilled and smoked over charcoal. The pork was tender and grilled to perfection. But I didn’t how the satay was fully coated with kicap manis. I would ask for the kicap manis on the side next time.

Fried with rich Indonesian black nut sambal, Frenz organic sunny-side up egg. Maggi goreng only available for takeaway/delivery. $26+ each.

1 Star (Michelin Guide Singapore)

These were the starters from the dinner set menu.

Lobster Kueh Pie Tee
Lamb satay (they changed it to pork if you don’t take lamb)
Roti Jala with chicken curry
Coconut shrimp

Everything came perfectly portioned for a small group of eaters. Our favourites were the roti jala and satay.

🍴DINE OUT🍴
📍Candlenut, 17a Dempsey Rd📍
💸 Bakwan Kepiting soup: $14
💸 Ngoh Hiang: $20
💸 Chap Chye: $22
💸 Kurobuta Pork Neck Satay: $20
💸 Chef's Mum's Curry Chicken: $26
💸 Aunt Caroline's Babi Buah Keluak: $30
💸 Kueh Salat: $16
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Visited Candlenut for an authentic and exquisite peranakan dishes!!😋 Had some of the peranakan staples like the ngoh hiang, chap chye, chicken curry, babi buah keluak and bakwan kepiting soup. Lastly, rounded up with a kueh salat. Definitely wowed us with the strong flavours and how homely and comforting the food tasted🏠. A little pricey for sure, but the flavour of the dishes were super on point!! Definitely worthy of its title as the world's first michelin-starred peranakan restaurant.👍✨