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This dish has “never remove from menu” written all over it.
Chef Willin Low, who runs this charming restaurant at the top of Mount Emily, has become ever more confident in his cooking since he opened Wild Rocket in 2005.
He specialises in what he calls Modern Singapore cuisine and his laksa pesto ($17) sums it up very neatly – a Western dish given an interesting local twist.
In this case, fragrant, pungent, knock-your-socks-off laksa leaves are ground up into a pesto, tossed with linguine and topped with prawns and little quail’s eggs.
Other restaurants have done it, but Low’s version is punchy and flavourful – the essence of laksa without the fattening coconut milk.
It helps that he keeps the dish simple, since nothing should – or can – compete with the pesto.
The prawns and eggs look pretty on the plate but are not strictly necessary.
This is a dish you want to return to time and again, when the siren call of laksa calls out to you.
He’d better not take it off the menu.