Having spent near a decade working an eatery in Chiang Mai, a Singaporean chef has made a homecoming with Restaurant Chedi, a up to date Thai restaurant within the vibrant neighbourhood of Jalan Besar. Chef Ok-Jin Lim continues to run Paak Dang Riverside Restaurant in Chiang Mai, which hires much less privileged and at-risk youths. Conventional and misplaced recipes are imbued with fashionable culinary strategies at Restaurant Chedi, which opens on 17 February.
Lending a contemporary perspective to Thai delicacies is head chef Miller Mai, who used to work at fashionable Southeast Asian restaurant Ding Dong. Highlights of the tasting menu ($148++) embody Tom Kha Gai, baked hen wings served with foie gras-infused sticky rice and tom kha creme, and Gaeng Som Fak Thong, Chilean sea bass with Japanese pumpkin, curry and Thai fish floss. Save area for the signature salted ikan kurau fried rice, which options six-month cured threadfin, crab meat and tobiko, and Miang Kham, which contains wild betel leaf, secret Thai miang discount, Rayong dried shrimp, Hokkaido ikura.
15 Hamilton Street, Singapore 209185
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