Another casual dining spot in Shaw Centre, checked.

I was very pleased with my order of Mentaiko Chitarra with Soft-Boiled Egg, Cream, Plum and Seaweed, as it had been a while since I last had a good plate of Mentaiko pasta.

Going at S$17.50, I sank my teeth into the thick, al dente Chitarra pasta, which did not lose its flavour in the creaminess of the sauce. And while the molten egg added some richness to the dish, the acidity of the plum purée balanced the flavours a fair bit, leaving behind a very mild (almost negligible) sourness aftertaste. All that, without masking any taste of the Mentaiko.

One should be pardoned for scraping all the sauce they could find on the plate.