World's Strangest Restaurants
The Clinic, Singapore
The Weird Factor: Singapore now has its own molecular gastronomy restaurant to join the ranks of Heston Blumenthal’s Fat Duck and Chef Ferran Adrià’s El Bulli, where food takes the form of weird science experiments: foams, liquid nitrogen, even an ultrasonic mixing technique used to create unique emulsions. Only The Clinic has gone a considerably bizarre step further. Simulating a hospital, chefs “operate” on gourmet oddities in an open demo kitchen under the glow of operating room lights. The entire 13-course menu is served on stainless steel surgical tables to diners seated in gleaming gold-plated wheelchairs.
Signature Dish: Dashi soup with olive oil soba noodles (the self-forming noodles are made by squirting an olive oil concoction from a syringe into a bowl of hot liquid).
Info: Blk 3C, The Cannery, Clarke Quay, #01–03, Singapore, www.theclinic.sg
