[Food Review] Arossa Singapore

Arossa is located at Scotts Square, #02-01

Arossa is a grill and wine bar concept restaurant, helmed by a very passionate female Japanese Chef Chiaki Watanabe. Touted as "the new hotspot in culinary experience in the heart of Orchard Road", Chef Watanabe offers diners simplicity in her food without compromising on delectable tastes. As the restaurant name suggests, Arossa serves up classic grilled cuisine with fresh seasonal ingredients sourced from Australia and New Zealand.

Arossa's open concept kitchen.

Arossa offers diners a classy yet cosy and relaxing ambience. A wonderful place for a quiet intimate dinner date with your partner or chill with a small gathering of close friends. The view along Scotts Road is especially wonderful in the evening, to people watch as the day winds down.

We started off our evening with a thirst quenching cocktail, Moscow Mule. If you like a tangy and refreshing punch with your vodka - this one is a must-try. 1-for-1 at $15 or $18 ala carte.

Complimentary freshly made artisan bread with olive oil and balsamic vinegar dip.

  ANTIPASTI (Appetizer)

An appetizer is not an appetizer without calamari! Deep fried squid lightly coated in flour and spicy aioli dip. Good for sharing, but always never enough. Very addictive! $21.

I am not a cheese lover but this appetizer left me quite speechless. Burrata cheese is fresh Italian cheese, made from mozeralla and cream - hardly any hint that it's cheese at all! It has a rich tasting and an unusual soft and slightly chewy texture, topped with basil pesto. If you love mozzarella, ricotta, or anything creamy, this cheese is for you. $34.
SECONDO (Main Course)

Tonno is an exceptional meaty blue fin tuna fish with a subtle flavor that has proven to be best eaten grilled. As with a person who wonders how this would taste, I will honestly say it tastes like chicken. It does! Except, the flesh is 3 times more tender and hardly a hint that you are having tuna. It is accompanied with caponata, a Sicilian style cooked vegetable salad. A very healthy option. $36.

The highlight of our dinner must be this succulent ribeye steak. Grilled to perfection, it is tender and juicy on the inside with an all natural flavor that we like. Go for medium rare for the best tasting steak! I couldn't get enough of it. 250g - $70.

Arossa prides itself for offering an amazingly extensive and exclusive wine menu, mostly from Australia and New Zealand. We were recommended to pair our ribeye steak with this soft, medium bodied red wine - '09 Cascina Bruni, Barolo Marialunga, Piedmont, Italy at $16/glass. If you are unsure about what kind of wine to consume, the restaurant managers would be more than happy to recommend suitable wines to pair them with your meals. (Last I heard, it's their expertise!)     DESSERT

Rejoice! All you tiramisu lovers out there! This is probably one of the best tasting all time favorite desserts in town. This is Arossa's signature coffee flavored Italian dessert and truly deserves all the rave. $14.

Another must-try side dish in this restaurant which I didn't manage to take photo of :

Truffle mash potato - $12

Very smooth and creamy to perfection. I loved it to the moon and back.

Thank you, Arossa Singapore for having us over to dinner.

~~ If you prefer to have a casual lunch instead, Arossa also offers affordable pasta set lunch options. Please see menu here. ~~

Location :

Arossa Wine and Grill

No.6 Scotts Road, Scotts Square (next to Grand Hyatt Hotel)

#02-01

Singapore 228209

Reservations : 6636  2951

Opening Hours
Lunch 11:30 – 15:00 (last order 14:00)
Dinner 18:00 – 22:30 (last order 21:30)

Website : www.arossa.com.sg

Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/Arossa.singapore

Arossa also offers private room dining options for larger groups, at no extra cost. Please make sure to call and make your reservations.

Till the next post, have a blessed week!

Disclaimer : The Accidental Mom Blogger was invited for a food tasting session with Arossa Singapore. The opinions written in this blog post are purely my own. No monetary compensation was given.

[RECIPE] Soya Sauce Chicken Wings

There isn't many flavorful soya sauce chicken rice stalls in Singapore. The famous stall that we usually patronize is at Upper Cross Street and boy, do the children love it so much!

So, I wanted to re-create this dish at home because I really do think I would be able to get the flavors right. After my 2nd experiment, it has gotten better in it's flavor. Perhaps there's still an incy wincy secret ingredient in the original chicken dish that I have not been able to "sift" out. But I am still very pleased with the turnout of my soya sauce chicken version nonetheless! 

Here's the recipe to try. I've used mid wings because we prefer this part of the chicken and also because, I think it's trickier to cook the whole chicken this way. :p

Ingredients :

 

- 14 pcs mid wings (or substitute any other parts of the chicken in equivalent)
- a small piece of ginger, pounded
- 2-3 cloves of garlic, pounded
- 1 tbsp oyster sauce

- 2 dashes of sesame oil
- 1 tbsp light soya sauce
- 3 tbsp of black soya sauce
- 1 tbsp hua tiao jiu (chinese cooking wine)
- 1 tbsp sugar (to taste)
- 1 to 1.5 rice bowl of water 

- 1 tbsp cornflour (for thickening the sauce)

Method :

- Marinade the chicken in a ziplock bag with all the above, except sugar, water and cornflour, for minimum 2 hours.

- When ready to cook, heat up in wok a tbsp of oil and stir-fry the garlic and ginger from the chicken marinade till fragrant.

- Add chicken and stir-fry for a few minutes before adding in the water.

- Let it simmer till cooked, approximately 30 minutes.

- Add sugar to taste and cornflour to thicken the sauce.

- Serve hot with plain white rice.

- Enjoy!

    Till the next post, have a blessed week!

Children's Lifestyle Accessories @ Adeline's Loft

Many may not be aware, barely 6 months after I ventured into handmade jewelries, I was offered an opportunity to produce girls' accessories for a now defunct local children's boutique, Tien, that was targeted for girls age 4 to 14 year olds. That was back in  2005 and 2006. The main boutique was located at Forum and a subsidiary space was rented at the children's level in Tangs. I had meetings to go to every month to discuss what the boss/designer wanted for her new collections. It was not easy to meet expectations.

Of course, little did I know how tiring and monotonous it was to be mass producing with my single pair of hands. All I was focused on was the given opportunity to show what I can do and the pure exhilaration I was reeling from seeing my handmade creations being showcased in the stores. And these were some of what I made.

Imagine having to make 20-30 pcs per design... even the skin on my fingers were not spared.

After about 6 months later, I decided to stop taking on these work, which took a toll on motherhood. My children were young and I wasn't able to cope with the demand. It was very tough to earn my keeps after the hours I had invested in making the pieces even till late into the night. So I re-focused on why I started out my jewelry making venture in the first place. To enjoy making my own designs and at a pace that I can cope.

One of the positive things that I've learned from this work stint, are the ways I could do to improve the lifespan of children's jewelry and studied on the materials suitable for girls with different ages. 

Here is a guide of how I recommend jewelry creations for girls' age between 3-12 years.

A few samples of my work, some with matching pieces for mums!

Recommended beads

Acrylic, crystals, glass or ceramic beads (it's not heavy it sounds and not glass breakable kind of material.)
You can read up more about bead materials here

Recommended materials
Fabric cord or suede for necklaces.
Suede or rubberized cords for bracelets. 

These materials are especially used for the younger ones, as I consider silver plating/rhodium materials to be sensitive to their young skin. I've taken care to ask how old a child is, before embarking on a suitable design. In this instance, colored fabric cords are used as I do not wish the girls to have allergy outbreaks from wearing my creations.

However, for the older girls (say a gauge of 10 years old and above), there are more options to play around with. By now, there should be an indication somehow if they have sensitive skin and may or may not take to silver plating or brass materials well. So funkier designs, with more choices of beads can be varied in a creation.

Prices
Individual item price range from S$14 onwards - depending on choice of beads and design.
Matching mum and bub necklace set is from S$45 onwards.
Matching mum and bub bracelet set is from S$40 onwards.

Lead Time

Depending on schedule, orders may take 5-14 working days before completion.

Do support and give a 'like' on my Facebook page for updates and inspiration. Queries are best attended to if you send me a private message from my page. Or drop me an email oon.adeline@gmail.com. 

  Till the next post, have a blessed week!