We went to Violet Oon's Satay Bar & Grill at Clarke Quay for Q and M's farewell dinner. (They're heading home up far north after a decade in Singapore.) Since there were so many of us, we ordered almost everything on the menu. Hahaha. It was a first visit for all of us.
Grilled meats on skewers. Spices galore! Love how the kitchen didn't dumb those down. The satay was beautifully done. Skipped the chicken. Ordered beef, pork and tripe. Three sticks per portion- good quality meat well marinated and well grilled. The meats came with a lovely spicy peanut sauce topped with grated pineapple. The boiled-till-tender-then-grilled tripe came with a gorgeous coconut rempah drizzled with freshly squeezed calamansi juice.
There're carbs on the menu as well, rice noodles and fried rice. We felt that the restaurant has taken on a fair bit of Balinese and Indonesian influences in terms of its use of sambal and chillies. The sambal bajak udang was delicious because of its 'chilli padi sambal'. Sure, the prawns were fresh and gorgeous, but the sambal with all its onions were so impressively piquant.
I didn't bother with alcohol that night. I had the restaurant's house-brewed old-fashioned ginger beer. It was really good. The rest somehow took a fancy to the house 'Baba Negroni' and ordered many glasses of the cocktail. Be warned, the restaurant is NOISY. Like really loud, just like its sister outlet, National Kitchen.
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| Said delicious sambal bajak udang. |
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