Where to get your turkeys for Christmas 2020

We might not be able to gather in turkey-finishing sized groups right now, but leftovers are also something to look forward to – turkey sandwiches, porridge, and broth give the festive treat new life in the days after Christmas. Here’s our round-up of this season’s best birds.

Sheraton Towers Singapore
The hotel gives a local twist to Christmas this year, with a turkey inspired by the sweet and spicy flavours of ayam masak merah. Served with tomato fried rice, sambal hijau brussel sprouts, and fluffy pieces of begedil.

Order online here. Tel: 6839-5621
Crowne Plaza Changi Airport
Crowne Plaza's offering this year combines a local favourite with the festive fowl – a roasted turkey covered in creamy, flavourful salted egg yolk sauce. Served alongside XO crabmeat fried rice, seasonal greens, and a salted egg yolk cream sauce to lubricate your bird.

Order here. Tel: 6823-5354
Jiang Nan Chun
If a whole turkey is too large for the family, one Michelin-starred Chinese restaurant Jiang Nan Chun is offering a crisp-skinned roast Challans duck, served with tangy kumquat compote. Also available as part of its Festive Indulgence set, which includes other goodies like crab meat fried rice and a Manjari chocolate, hazelnut royaltine, and amarena cherry log cake.

Order online here. Tel: 6831-7253
Pan Pacific Singapore
Pan Pacific Singapore showcases sustainable and locally-sourced produce for their festive menus this year, with a roasted, antibiotic-free Christmas turkey that comes with goose liver pate stuffing. Trimmings include winter vegetables, wild mushroom sauce, and to cut all that richness, sour cherry sauce.

Order here. Tel: 6826-8240
JW Marriott South Beach Singapore
Beach Road Kitchen presents goes the classic route this year, with a traditional roasted turkey served alongside gravy, cranberry sauce, and cornbread stuffing. The set also comes with roasted pumpkin soup, mashed potatoes, and roasted brussel sprouts for a postcard-perfect yuletide feast.

Order online here. Tel: 6818-1908
Fullerton Hotel Singapore
Fullerton's Sapit turkey sees the bird marinated in lemongrass, ginger, cumin, coriander, and chillies before being roasted. The bird comes with blue pea flower rice and tangy pineapple relish. To snack on, there are emping crackers with sweet chilli soy sauce. Every purchase of a Christmas Turkey Sapit comes with a complimentary 4-pack of Tiger Crystal 4-pack, while stocks last.

Order here. Tel: 6877-8943
Goodwood Park Hotel Singapore
Don't want to deal with an entire bird, and the very likely leftovers? Goodwood Park has got you covered with a selection of individual serving snacks prepared with turkey. There's a crispy turkey and pine nut kataifi – filled with meat marinated in char siew sauce. For something Western, head for the mini turkey shepherd's pie, with comes with a mix of sweet potato and potato puree topped with a cheese crumble Order online here. Tel: 6730-1867/68
New Ubin Seafood

The folks at consummate tze char fusion joint New Ubin Seafood know their way around heat, which is why they’ve laid down their woks to cook in a way more suited to the festive season. That is, traditional house-smoked turkey, along with chicken and chestnut stuffing - served either whole, or as the breast alone if breaking down the massive bird might be too inconvenient. Either way, you’re getting a jar of smoked Maldon sea salt to pair with the festive roast. Alternatively, return to grub that the establishment made its name on - eclectic, tze char-esque set menus with the option of a trio of crabs a la any style you’d like as a centrepiece.

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Atrium Lounge at Parkroyal Collection Marina Bay

Run the gamut of festive delights with Atrium Lounge’s selection of roasts - gingerbread-spiced boneless ham, salmon en croute or a hulking 180-day grain-fed tomahawk steak, slow roasted and served alongside sauteed veg and red wine sauce. As for their turkey selection, take your pick: apart from the traditional roasted turkey, there’s Indonesian barbecue-esque, complete with sayur lodeh and turmeric rice; as well as a Christmas trip to Japan with a sake and mirin-brined turkey along with wafu-dressed greens, teriyaki sauce and seasoned rice.

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Carousel at Royal Plaza on Scotts

Carousel’s also got their take on South Asian and Japanese-inspired turkeys - the former comes slathered in spicy sambal hijau, atop a bed of nasi goreng, serunding and spiced chicken stuffing. The latter is marinated with miso and seaweed and served with garlic fried rice, curry potatoes and sesame sauce. Other festive roasts include traditional roast turkey, coffee-glazed veal spareribs and slow-roasted leg of lamb. There’s also their Yule log, given the ever-popular burnt cheesecake treatment with Valrhona chocolate crème and berries to finish.

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Resorts World Sentosa

For a departure from the norm, turkey wellington from Resorts World Sentosa might be what you’re looking for. Expect a roulade of turkey breast, portobello mushroom and prosciutto lovingly baked in puff pastry. Else, there’s always the turducken - a chicken stuffed in a duck, stuffed in a turkey if you’re wondering. Sausage filling, roasted veggies and other accompaniments round out the meal (for a week). If you’re looking for a dessert centrepiece, opt for executive pastry chef Kenny Kong’s elderflower festive ball. The reinterpretation of a Christmas Noel Ball comprises a coconut praline and French ruby chocolate shell hiding a cache of delights including elderflower-infused sponge, nut streusel and almond biscuits.

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Blue Jasmine

Thai specialty chef Ninaporn Doungiaisantisuk heads the kitchen at Blue Jasmine, and has brought culinary influences from Chiang Rai, a city in Northern Thailand, to what she does at the restaurant. For Christmas, that means Esarn (cuisine native to northeasternThailand) paste as the marinade for the festive turkey, including spices like galangal, lemongrass and coriander. The bird is then twice roasted for an aromatic, moist Christmas roast that’s a far cry from the ordinary. Buttered vegetables, smoked chili sauce, crabmeat pineapple fried rice and mango sticky rice end off the meal for a satisfyingly indulgent Thai-style soiree.

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Sunday Catering

In case you aren’t familiar with Sunday Catering, they’re a new name in town brought to you by family favourite Morganfield’s of rib-sticking rib platter fame. As it happens, knowing your way around fire and smoke work wonders for a Christmas roast. Sunday Catering is offering up traditional roasted turkey, complete with house gravy, cranberry sauce, stuffing and sides, as well as an orange marmalade-glazed leg of ham that’s equal parts citrusy tang and luscious, smoky saltiness.

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