LIFESTYLE admits it's hard keeping secrets, so we're sharing some off-the-menu items in restaurants here, with the blessing of the chefs. Just don't go to the restaurants expecting these items to be available as they are usually seasonal offerings or one-off creations.

1. Spicy dried scallop spaghetti, $21, at Wild Rocket, 10A Upper Wilkie Road, Hangout Hotel

2. Deep-fried baby kinki (a type of wild catch fish), $15, at Akashi, with outlets in Paragon, Tanglin Shopping Centre and VivoCity

3. Pregnant sweet fish, $28 for one fish, which weighs between 100 and 150g, at Robataya Yoyogi, 80 Mohamed Sultan Road, The Pier @ Robertson, 01-04

4. Preserved meat claypot rice, $32 for four people, at Romanee's Kitchen, 18 Raffles Quay, unit 38, Lau Pa Sat

5. Mole poblano (chicken cooked in a chocolate sauce), $28, at Margarita's with outlets in Block 11 Dempsey Road, 404 East Coast Road and 108 Faber Drive