Popped into Pastaro for an easy dinner. It's a pretty convenient venue for many of us. Although it's a casual venue and takes walk-ins, I usually prefer to make a booking or at least call to check if there's space for walk-ins. It's packed out for now, and walk-ins at peak hour tend to need to wait an hour minimally for a seat.
J wanted the Har Jeong Fritters of prawn paste and slices of pork belly. It's good if you like pork belly I suppose. I had to have the charred Napa cabbage with miso butter, nori and bonito. Loved it! This version with all its Japanese flavors works beautifully.
The bistro makes its pasta fresh in-house. That's nice. J predictably ordered the Carbonara Fettucine. What's not to love about it? It's a great iteration of yolk, Sarawak pepper, parmigiana and lovely thick slices of pancetta. It totally satiated her cravings. I took antihistamines and went for broke — Singapore Fried Noodles — crustacean oil, prawn, chilli and kaffir. It was pretty much a prawn aglio e olio. Nicely done lah.
My glasses of highballs just kept arriving. LOL J decided to also have a highball tonight. She isn't much of a drinker, but she felt like one tonight. So I told her to order whatever I would finish whatever she didn't want. Nope, none left for me. She merrily finished her glass of highball.
J wouldn't have minded the pandan, caramel and gula melaka pudding. But they ran out of it two tables ago. Oh well. I didn't care. I had a highball as a dessert and that completed the meal. It was a good evening.
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