Pizzapalooza: Singapore - Skinny Pizza, Obesely Delectable

The first pizza to reign over our table was this salami and pesto number. Good pizza crust and arugula can always spill all over my table, and I'll lick it all up.

Beauty is crust-deep, so obviously Chicago deep dish is very good-looking pizza. But these pizzas could be America's Next Top Model, particularly with voluptous slices of portobellos marinated in truffle oil.

This is the masterpiece. Seafood pizza with squid ink crust. Genius.

A perfect pizza buddy -- that's me! Or fresh French cider.

I recently ate 11 slices of pizza in two meals over two days, so I know what I'm talking about when it comes to baked dough, cheese, tomato sauce and toppings.

Not many places would welcome four sweaty softball girls who had just played tennis for two hours in 100 percent humidity at 9.30pm, when they were getting ready to close at 10pm. Not many places refill your glasses with water without you asking for it. But when you sink into one of Skinny Pizza's mod turqoise chairs amid a retro-country decor as hipper-than-thou (but not intrusive) ambient electronica wafts over your head, you get a very happy feeling that the service here is the real deal. The exquisite, divine, gut-warming and soul-shaking culinary experience at Skinny Pizza was not a result of hunger that caused stomach tremors registering 10 on the Richter scale. It would be too simple. Just like simply slapping on fresh ingredients on thin crust dough and sticking it into a brick oven was too easy (although, I must say, can also create amazing pizza). This crust is paper-thin and crispy, and each pie (man, can you even bring yourself to call this pizza a pie?) weighs in at 12" of goodness. It's DIY slicing with a slicer on each table, or if you're hoarding one on your own (highly recommended), feel free to rip 'er up off the wooden board on which it's served. We ordered the Wild Truffled Mushroom, Seafood and Salami and Pesto, and Janet got the mushroom soup to start, a full-bodied creamed portobello concoction that looked magical.

Now, about the pizza. I can't say enough about how generous they were with the ingredients. On the mushroom, slabs of portobellos marinated in truffle oil ordained the crust, sprinkled with fresh grated parmesan and heaped with so much arugula it's spilling over, and we're eating it off the table. These two toppings are replicated on the other two pizzas, and I assume it is the the case with the others we haven't tried. I'm not usually a fan of pesto but this one was not overbearing with basil and the cream on this crust was as delectably lickable as Nutella on toast. And the seafood -- oh my god, the seafood! The squid ink crust is genius, and the heaps of shrimp and calamari on top could induce an spontaneous round of "Under The Sea," and what a nice touch to give it all a tang with tomato salsa. Because this crust is so crispy, it tends to fall apart at the slightest mishandling, which is quite possible as you maul it greedily. But never fear, no one will hold it against you for sweeping all the pieces off the table and into your mouth. At least, no one wrote me a summons for that crime of inadequate etiquette.

By the way, if you're feeling too angelic about eating Skinny Pizza, which has to be the best guilt-free dietary indulgence ever, the truffle fries will help feed your rebel soul, as will the list of desserts: pandan lamington, triple chocolate brownie, pistachio lemon cheesecake, warm chocolate toffee cake, strawberry cheesecake. We didn't have any, but we'll make sure to make room the next time. I enjoyed my pizza with the recommended French cider, which was pleasant, but at only 2% alcohol level, I shotgunned it within five minutes.When we left, we decided that playing tennis at Suntec, as opposed to Kallang, our other venue, would always be our first choice for a court location. Just so we can eat at Skinny Pizza after. When a pizza rules your life like this and later, your sweet dreams, you know it's something beyond special. Dough it to me one more time.