Singapore Food Festival

First Culinary's dish features a whole seabass (market price), deep fried and accompanied by threads of cordyceps flowers, shimeiji mushroom, and a sweet soya milk broth to complement the salty fish.

This bowl ($6) of onsen egg with ikura orbs at this Japanese hole-in-the-wall looks authentic, but the egg is laid in Singapore, at Chew's Agriculture farm, and the soya sauce's cooled into a jelly for that boost of texture.

Served in a cored-out pineapple, this dish ($20) looks like a fancy serving of sweet and sour pork, until you chow down on the chewy-sweet pieces of meat, which are really cuts of crocodile sourced from the Long Kuan Hung Crocodile Farm in Lim Chu Kang.

Adhering to its philosophy of clean eating, Soup Spoon Union's while-stocks-last clear broth ($13.80) looks super nourishing with shiitake caps, quinoa grains, pig skin and meaty slices of barramundi from Barramundi Asia, farmed off Singapore's southern shores.