Checked out Casa Mori on a casual Sunday night dinner. We sat on its sheltered al fresco terrace. The restaurant was full for the night and didn't accept any more walk-ins, not even at its terrace. So the terrace was nicely empty except for our table; we made all the noise we wanted. Hehh.
There're decent overhead fans, although I didn't think two was sufficient to cool the patio. But we were lucky that it was a cloudy day, which resulted in a night that wasn't too warm. There was an air cooler too, which made it rather comfortable. Both floofs and humans were okay for the evening.
I had to laugh at our sides. Someone really really likes bonito flakes. They were all covered with it — the padron peppers, the roasted cauliflower and shredded
Japanese cabbage. At least the garlic huajiao prawns weren't liberally sprinkled. I avoided those prawns because of the numbing peppers. Eeeps. The crab meat otak terrine with seabass and prawn rempah were delicious! Both the prawns and the otak came with toasted bread. So it filled our stomachs a fair bit. The kalipoquetas were ridiculously good. Love the name! So bombas/croquettas, but these were filled with chicken curry — brilliant.
Had to have the Hokkien Mee Fideua. That was quite tasty! We had no more stomach space to sample its squid ink fried rice and sayur lodeh risotto. Next round. We ordered more protein in the form of a black cod with Chinese olive mustard leaves and Japanese takana (pickled mustard greens).
Chefs Willin Low and Jose Alonso found a formula in Casa Mori's menu that should work. Everyone enjoyed the food! It was surprisingly palatable and suited our tastebuds. These people declined dessert, but in the end, when the crisp and light mochi churros with chocolate and kaya, and a classic pear tart with vanilla ice-cream came along, they polished them off.
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