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I was never one for pickles and ice cream, but I found the next best
thing at Ikukan, a small Japanese restaurant tucked behind the trendy
bars of Singapore's Club Street: a layer of melted Camembert cheese
sandwiched between two grilled fish cakes, held together by a ribbon of
seaweed. To a woman five-months pregnant, it was heavenly. So was an
avocado shake flavored with coffeeshot of whiskey
optionalthat I tasted at a stand in the Alexander Village Hawker
Center. Such creative fare has shaped Singapore's reputation as Asia's
most cutting-edge culinary destinationand...