{"id":25790,"date":"2014-04-09T08:18:34","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T00:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rubbisheatrubbishgrow.com\/?p=25790"},"modified":"2017-12-06T11:21:53","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T03:21:53","slug":"ottoman-kebab-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rubbisheatrubbishgrow.com\/zh\/2014\/04\/09\/ottoman-kebab-singapore\/","title":{"rendered":"MOVED: Ottoman Kebab & Grill, Bedok Mall"},"content":{"rendered":"

MOVED: to Savourworld Singapore, 2 Science Park Drive, #01-34 Singapore, T: 6266 0269. <\/p>\n

\"Ottoman
\nAlthough it would be cool to have a cafe full of ottoman chairs, Ottoman here refers to the Ottoman Empire<\/a>, or Turkish Empire. Helmed\u00a0by Turkish<\/strong>\u00a0Chef Ali Kose<\/strong>, who worked as a sous chef at Gordon Ramsay<\/strong>‘s Michelin-starred Maze in London, the halal-certified<\/strong> restaurant is under First Gourmet<\/a>,\u00a0which is behind Zaffron Kitchen<\/a> and Prata Wala<\/a>. The lunch and dinner sets\u00a0<\/strong>come with an apple tea and daily soup, starting from $8.50 for lunch to the most expensive $20.50 dinner set. Rather good value.<\/p>\n

Starters & Sides<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Ottoman
\nThe\u00a0homous<\/strong> ($6), or as Americans call it, hummus, a chick pea dip with\u00a0tahini<\/em> (ground sesame paste), lime, and garlic, is smooth but a tad bland\u00a0for\u00a0us. However, for the sake of\u00a0pide bread<\/strong> ($2), cooked over lava stones, exploding\u00a0with the aroma of charcoal, order the homous to mop the bread with. The bread tastes like sunshine on a rainy day.
\n<\/p>\n

\"Ottoman
\nCheese borek<\/strong> ($6 for 6 pcs) is feta cheese wrapped in deep-fried “popiah”\u00a0<\/em>skin, nice and easy. It is difficult to find a good\u00a0falafel\u00a0<\/strong>($5 for 3) in Singapore and since this\u00a0falafel<\/strong>\u00a0(and\u00a0cheese borek)<\/strong>\u00a0is cooked upon ordering, it is comforting, and one of the better falafels I have had.<\/p>\n

Mains<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Ottoman
\nChiobu raves about how delicious the\u00a0Iskender mutton kebab<\/strong> ($18.50) is: grilled minced mutton atop crispy\u00a0pide<\/em> croutons, drizzled with a sauce of sun-dried tomatoes, celery, carrots, shallots, and dried mint; yogurt on the side to undercut the richness if you need it. Chiobu likes the intense characteristic “muttony” taste.<\/p>\n

\"Ottoman
\nI prefer the\u00a0shish kebab<\/strong>, or skewered meat.\u00a0Having tried the\u00a0Ottoman shish platter\u00a0<\/strong>($29), with a combination of beef<\/strong>, chicken<\/strong>, and seafood<\/strong>, with pide and pilav (buttered) rice–they are available as individual skewers from $7.50-$12.50– the beef and chicken are fantastic. They have serious starbursts of burnt ends that I relish, extremely smoky, and still retain their moistness. Chiobu opines\u00a0the beef is tough but I don’t think so, it has a bite that I like. Besides, as our mama says whenever we whine\u00a0about tough food, “Bo gay <\/em>[toothless] is it?”<\/p>\n

Dessert<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Ottoman
\nKunefe<\/strong> ($8.50), freshly prepared upon order, is a\u00a0nabulsi<\/em> goat cheese encased within shredded\u00a0kadayif<\/em> phyllo pastry, which is then pan-fried with butter and drizzled with sugar syrup, and topped with crushed pistachio. It\u00a0is super delicious. On first bite, it\u00a0tastes like caramel popcorn, tinged with a little salt (from the cheese), leaving a buttery aftertaste. Some around our table find it oily from the butter, but as Julia Child says, there is never too much butter.<\/em>\u00a0(Ok, she didn’t say it but she might have.) Although Chef Ali has already reduced the sweetness–if you know Middle Eastern cuisine, you’d know Arabs\u00a0eat\u00a0really<\/em> saccharine food–some around our table still find the dessert\u00a0too sweet, but as the PR notes, “Hey you finished three quarters of it.” Haha, I can’t complain, I like sweet things, and I can eat 10\u00a0kunefe<\/strong>. This is one of the most interesting and layered\u00a0desserts I have this year.<\/p>\n

Ottoman Kebab & Grill<\/strong><\/h1>\n

311 New Upper Changi Road, Bedok Mall #01-75, Singapore 467369
\nT: 6702 4031
\n11am-10pm daily
\nfacebook<\/a>
\nRating: 3.500\/5 stars<\/strong><\/p>\n

Written by\u00a0A. Nathanael Ho.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

ps: Thanks, Chenyze, for the hospitality.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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