Sooo, this looked much better in the photos - I was a little disappointed. The pork belly tasted good but it was not tender (like braised meat ought to be), and the richness of the meat was not sufficient to carry the rather tasteless linguine. A shame though cos the meat tasted nice.
The Beer Braised Pork Belly Linguine – linguine cooked with a chocolate stout-infused sauce with pork belly that has been stewed and braised for days in craft beer. The pork belly is seared prior to serving to give it a char. As you bite into it, you’ll find the pork belly satisfyingly fatty and juicy.
Read more: https://www.misstamchiak.com/five-marbles-craft-beer/
Located at the courtyard of Rendezvous Hotel Singapore, this new craft beer restaurant offers 12 craft beers on tap, along with a menu of bar bites and beer-infused mains. The place is actually by the guys from Alchemy and the now defunct The RawR Kitchen, so expect comforting, hearty plates — perfect for a buzzy gathering with food-loving friends. Burpple Tastemaker Emily S was pleasantly surprised by how the beers are priced "by mileage", meaning a full pint is exactly double the price of the half, so it's great for beer drinkers who like variety. Some of her favourites include the velvety smooth Young's Double Chocolate Stout ($5/10) and aromatic Baird Temple Garden Yuzu Ale ($7/14). While you're here, tuck into delicious mains like the succulent Craft Beer Chicken Rice ($16) — the kitchen team's take on beer can chicken served with flavoured rice, and Beer Braised Pork Belly Linguine ($19), where the meat is braised in beer for days till tender, sticky and absolutely flavourful.
Avg Price: $35 per person
Photo by Burppler Shawn Loh
Visited Five Marbles; run by the same people behind now-defunct The Rawr Kitchen (they moved over) — the food options see a pretty interesting infusion with their craft beers used during the cooking process, while the craft beers offered have changed to a wider selection sourced from local breweries such as Brewlander & Co. (yes, the collab between Allan Wu and Daniel Ong), Innocence Brewing and a few others.
The folks behind Five Marbles knows how to do pork well; the generous slabs of pork belly stewed and braised for days with their craft beer is not only immensely tender, but also incredibly savoury from the braising providing a mellow sweetness alongside without any porky stench. The accompanying linguine is done al-dente; flavours being more subtle than the slabs of pork (which was a good balance considering the heavy flavours of the pork) yet carried a lingering butteriness for a slight flavour. Would go pretty well with the craft beer selection here.
Whilst the linguine had as much personality as the eraser dust from the furious use of a Cambodia flag eraser, the beer braised pork belly is a revelation, with the leaner bits of pork keeping moist and chewily tender, and the sticky, salty layer of almost pornographically wobbly belly fat existing in a quasi-molten state. 3.9/5
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P.S. Five Marbles is basically The Rawr Kitchen 2.0. The latter were behind two of my favourite dishes in 2016, namely the Alcoholic Root Beer and Deep Fried Pork Belly, and these people know their way around pork.
