Bar Cicheti
Il š'agit incroyable, il a été presque un mois et demi, mais les effets secondaire du vaccin sont encore présents 😰. J'en ai vraiment assez, ils perturbent ma vie et et j'ai perdu mon congé à passer tout le mois de juin au lit! J'avais de grands projets pour mon congé et je voulais poursuivre de certains loisirs et d'accomplir de nombreux projets, mais je n'ai rien fait. Franchement, j'en avais marre.
Très heureusement grâce à Mon Mari, mon cher cher bou, qui a fait des recherches (c'est sa façon de résoudre n'importe quoi) et a découvert que mon effet secondaire des vertiges n'est pas aussi rare qu'on le pensait après tout. Apparemment, de nombreuses personnes ont rapporté avoir eu des vertiges après avoir été vaccinées. C'était un soulagement d'apprendre ça, parce que je devenais vraiment inquiet. Je pensais que c'était quelque chose de plus grave: ma mère est mort d'un cancer alors qu'elle avait à peu près mon âge actuel, et comme la fille aînée, je suis le plus à risque d'avoir un cancer comme elle.
En tous cas, les gens qui ont eu des vertiges ont conseillé de prendre de la vitamine C pour résoudre cette maladie. Beaucoup et beaucoup de la vitamine C. Apparemment, l'effet secondaire des vertiges disparaît en environ une semaine (ou deux) après avoir pris beaucoup de vitamine C. Il a été six jours et je pense que ça va mieux. J'espère que ça ira mieux, ça doit aller mieux....je n'en peux plus, ma qualité de vie s'est gravement détériorée. et alors j'aimerais, vraiment vraiment, que ma vie redevienne normale. 화이팅!
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We've loved our superb dinners at both Cicheti and Caffe Cicheti, leaving Bar Cicheti as the only restaurant concept under the Cicheti group that we'd yet to visit. It'd been buried in my to-eat list for yonks, because the galley of a restaurant was always a full-house whenever we'd tried to secure reservations.
Turns out all it took was for the various permutations of dining-in restrictions and social distancing limits to keep the crowd at home, because Bar Cicheti now has availability on a Sunday sans reservations. It was just a smidge disconcerting, the Keong Siak enclave on a Sunday evening is a vastly different creature from the Keong Siak on a Friday or Saturday night: it's much more languid, casual, mellow. I liked it, the buzzy crowd of a Saturday can make a night-out a little frenzied.
Bar Cicheti's menu is decidedly restrained, with a focus on pasta dishes, offered in both entrée and main portions. The former will allow a sampling of different pasta options, tapas-esque style, so you get variety without overloading on carbs. Of course, that was moot to us gluttons, we've long resigned to never fitting into our old jeans anymore, and thus, scoffing down several mains on our own was easy peasy.
Don't miss out on the daily specials either, both featured the season's best and were outstanding.
The first of the specials was the Polpo ($19) of tender Spanish octopus imbued with a lovely char, served with baba ghanoush, baked onion, and salsa verde.
The other special, Veal Milanese ($19), was homespun goodness comprising a breaded veal loin fried to perfection and drizzled with sweet-tangy balsamic, melted parmigiano, and a side of marinated cherry tomatoes bursting with sweetness.
Cicheti's rendition of the Roman classic is a must-try: the Pici Cacio e Pepe ($28 for main) is simplicity at its most sublime: wonderfully al dente pasta slicked with a beautiful cheesy sauce redolent of parmigiano, marjoram, and lashings of Sarawak black pepper. Fantastic stuff!
The Orecchiette ($28 for main) was generously dotted with a scrummy pork & fennel sausage, and given a delightful kick with chilli and treviso.
An excellent recommendation by our waitress, the Tagliolini Nero ($35 for main) flavoured with squid ink, and oodles of fresh Hokkaido scallops, springy squid, and a dollop of creamy Japanese uni, swimming in a bisque reduction, was moreish and sumptuous.
Leave the gun - take the Cannoli ($14) #iykyk. And indeed, Cicheti's traditional Italian confection stuffed with marsala ricotta, candied citrus, cranberries, chocolate chips, chopped Israeli pistachios is not to be missed. These fat cigars of deliciousness were absolutely smashing!
One of the best complimentary bread I've ever had, the foccacia at Cicheti is fragrant, soft, and crazy good. Upon checking with our waitress, the foccacia at Cicheti is for sale, it's apparently popular to pre-order a whole loaf and take-away the bread.
Bar Cicheti
10 Jiak Chuan Road
Tel: 6789 9801
Open Mondays 12noon to 9pm
Tuesdays to Saturdays 12noon to 2.30pm for lunch; 6pm to 11pm for dinner
Sundays from 12noon to 2.30pm for lunch only
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