If you like spam, spam fries (SGD10) are practically the tasty-upgrade that you've been dreaming of. Deep fried spam fries are served with a side of nacho cheese dip. As the love for spam isn't universal, it's either a straight yes for spam lovers or a no for people who don't like spam.

Duck crispies (SGD15 / 5pc) are essentially fried dumplings stuffed with duck rilettes fillings served with a dash of pickles. The shredded duck are soaked in duck fat to make it tantalizing. While it was quite a delicious pop in the mouth, I found that it was on the pricey side.

In the name of celebrating Chinese New Year, Beast & Butterflies have released a new item on the menu, the Treasure Pot (SGD68), or also more affectionately known as the Pen Cai. This pot is brimming with abalone, scallops, prawns, fish maw, dried oysters, roast pork belly, broccoli, mushrooms, fatt choy and cabbage. 4 abalones per pot to go around. The seafood stock is extremely thick, savoury and delicious. I really enjoyed this Pen Cai and I must say it's one of the better ones I've tried this year! Takeaways are also available at SGD84.

The Wooly Pork (SGD35) is a grilled slab of mangalica pork collar with crispy scallion brown rice galette, served with a side of kimchi cucumbers and drizzled with bulgogi sauce. The pork collar was
slightly lacklustre in comparison with a drier meat, though the sauce made the pork a lot more tantalizing to have. I could not appreciate the crispy brown rice which made the overall dish drier.

The Extravaganza (SGD25) is a four-part special dessert, consisting of Yogurt & Lime Mousse, Yam Brûlée, Mango Sticky Rice and Chocolate & Banana Crumbles. The striking red and white one is the Yogurt & Lime Mousse, a particularly sour kick with the red fruit emulsion and almond crumbles. This inventive dessert would sit well with those who love desserts with more sour undertones. The Yam Brûlée is just like Creme Brûlée, but yam-based, topped with a fat scoop of coconut ice-cream. It is another creative item reminiscent of or nee. and is on the heavier side that can get jelak quite quickly. The Mango Sticky Rice was not particularly impressive, with mango cubes that were not sweet.

 

The best part of the Extravaganza dessert is the Chocolate & Banana Crumbles, a chocolate bomb that melts upon pouring hot chocolate gold liquid all over it! It crumbles inwards, and the result is a gooey hot mess of banana and chocolate... I love it. This can also be gotten as a separate dessert ("Chocoholic") that will be served with Sichuan pepper sauce Passion Fruit Sorbet - I would highly recommend getting this on its own.

 

The Matcha Lava (SGD10) is a really pretty, Japanese-inspired dessert, a green tea cake stuffed with rich matcha ganache. On the side, there is azuki and vanilla ice cream to go with it. 

Some of the drinks are quite out-of-the-world, with cheeky inventions like the Acuban Nyonya! Like the Basil Ice-Cream, it is not for the faint-hearted. You either love it or you don't, and somehow I really took to it with its salty (yes, in a cocktail) flavours that would really be suitable as a Halloween drink. But word of warning - you could like it so much it becomes super addictive.

I definitely walked away with a new perspective of Beast & Butterflies, maybe that's the idea of the restaurant's menu items - you either found it as a fantastically beastly dish, or it might have given you butterflies in the stomach for its demand for acquired tastes.