The Place Located along Telok Ayer, NAE:UM is definitely one of the hottest restaurants to open this year and is the inaugural restaurant of Chef Louis Han. Chef Louis precisely helmed the now defunct Kimme, and his new restaurant is gorgeous. Think wooden interior with counter seats and table setting, the dining ambience is cosy in a fine-casual setting. In terms of the cuisine, Chef Louis introduces ‘contemporary Seoul cuisine’, not to be taken literally as Korean classics but rather dishes inspired by the culinary vibrancy of Seoul with other global influences. The Food Available from 2 November 2021, NAEːUM has introduced its second episodic menu, ‘Mountain Lodge’, a 6-course menu at S$168++ with two supplementary dishes. This episode is inspired by the mountains of Korea where Chef seeks to recreate dishes from his hiking memories. The meal started with some snacks like the Kkotge and Nurungji; the former is Flower crab served with kimchi powder and pickled beetroot on filo pastry while the latter is Puffed brown rice cracker topped with beef tartare, cured egg yolk shavings, pickled turnip and spring onion spears. The last snack is the Duckgalbi, Feuille de Brick tartlet topped with grilled minced duck ball with a rice cake centre and garnished with spring onions curls. This is my favourite snack of the trio, [...]
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