Sync Korean Tapas Bar

Korean tapas?
When I first heard about this place I was skeptical, but it’s really pretty good. There’s some element of fusion cuisine but you can also get normal korean food.
The «tapas» are certainly not tapas sized, being more like appetisers.
The sweet corn fritters were great. They were of an appropriate size, and didn’t taste too much of corn (the corn flavour is actually quite mild). There was also a vague fruit flavour hovering on the edge of my palate.
The grilled pork belly salad was simply dressed and came with a generous serving of pork belly, which was excellently char grilled (with plenty of that char grilled edge). I didn’t really taste the Yuzu flavour though.
The seafood pancake was alright. A little chewy (it could be thinner) and the ingredients weren’t well integrated into the batter, but it was still tasty.
The value set meal (3−10pm daily) was great value — appetiser (kimchi or pickles), 3 skewers, rice or ramyun ($ 4 more) and a drink for $ 10.90.
The kimchi was above average. The skewers were all really tasty — they grill really well here.
The chewy korean pancake with lotsa things was really nice. Even if the black sesame chantilly was just black sesame paste (it was far from the consistency of whipped cream). The mixture of chewy and crispy pancake, vanilla ice cream, nuts, cinnamon, black sesame and red bean went really well together.

There is a strong effort to create a Korean ambience; TV screens showing Korean MTVs or dramas and Korean songs in the background, but the savoury tapas could be further tweaked to showcased a more distinctive Korean personality.
Of the more substantial plates, the Chicken Paella that arrived hot in a large pan was much better. The grains were beautifully cooked; moist but not too clumpy and flavours were as rich and piquant as the colour imparted from tomato and kimchi.
All’s not lost with the adventurous desserts here. I truly enjoyed the Misugaru lava cake ($ 8.90++), a nice Korean interpretation of the western lava cake by using Misugaru, a traditional Korean multi-​grain powder most likely very new to most Singaporeans. Warm, earthy with a subtle malt fragrance, this was more outstanding and unique than its other matcha lava flavour. Crunchy and chewy, the Hotteok ($ 8.90++), humble korean street pancakes are elevated inordinately with just the right amount of smooth piping hot red bean and peanuts. Savour them when they are fresh and hot with the ice cream.