Minced Pork Bros (肉脞兄弟), Old Airport Road Food Centre

I've been wanting to try Minced Pork Bros (#01-113 Old Airport Road Food Centre, 51 Old Airport Road) for a long time. The menu looked smaller than what I recall of reading about them.

Fish dumpling ba chor mee. 50 cents more than the regular bowl for 1 bulbous and semi-slimy fish dumpling which was okay tasting. No liver or meat balls.

Saucing was pretty wet here. There were leftovers after I was done with the bowl. There was noticeable vinegar in it and the taste was pretty good once all that chilli was in. Mee pok's a tad soft. Soup's not worth drinking.

Joo Chiat Bánh Mì Cà Phê, Joo Chiat Road

I've noticed that this Vietnamese coffee shop (263 Joo Chiat Road, tel : +65 6568 8529) has been around for some time. Never visited until now.

Tried their Dalat strawberry pressed bánh mì. In between the pressed buns were supposedly conserve made with strawberries from Vietnam's Da Lat region - the oldest strawberry growing region in the country. I was hoping that they would come with some butter but there weren't any. Couldn't tell if they were any different from regular strawberries.

Egg coffee or cà phê trứng. Not particularly outstanding with that egg froth or the coffee which wasn't very strong. I've previously had them at Red Sparrow and 123 ZÔ. Both of them were better tasting with eggier froth and richer coffee.

Their regular drip coffee was likewise a little weak in my opinion. Lacked punch from the aroma and intensity.

328 Katong Laksa, East Coast Road

For posterity, a large bowl ($9.30) from 328 Katong Laksa (51 East Coast Road). That shrimpy coconut-y gravy seemed more satisfying today than what I remember from their shop at Queensway and Tiong Bahru. But memory can be fickle. Or maybe it was just better tasting. I'll probably never know which.

184 Family Cooked Food, Bukit Timah Interim Food Centre

 

I remember 184 Family Cooked Food from the old Bukit Timah Food Centre some years back. They're currently located at the interim food centre (#01-056 Bukit Timah Interim Food Centre, 2A Jalan Seh Chuan) next door to He Zhong Carrot Cake just like before. Bee hoon's still not bad tasting but their chicken wings look different from what I remembered. I also didn't think as little of their otah and sambal today as I did previously. Somethings seem to have changed. 🤔

Lin Traditional Chicken Rice (林传统鸡饭), Amoy Street Food Centre

Noticed Lin Traditional Chicken Rice (#01-59 Amoy Street Food Centre, 7 Maxwell Road) and their long queues during my previous visits to Amoy Street Food Centre.

Most of their chicken on display were the roasted/fried variety. There appears to be limited poached chicken - at least the ones that were visible.

Tried their roast/fried chicken. Meat's dry-ish. Rice was beady and passable. Chilli's garlicky/gingery/lime-y. Serviceable plate with pretty generous portions. I'm guessing that the stall attracts a queue because this was likely to be the largest portion of protein that one could get for $5 around the vicinity.

One week later......

It seems that there isn't additional charge for thigh meat. This was also $5 for 白尾. Similar generous portion of meat as the breast meat from last week. I suppose that partially explains the queue.

Just to be clear, the egg is an additional separate charge.

Tsukiji Kaisendon, Holland Village Shopping Centre

Finally came down to Tsukiji Kaisendon (#02-03 Holland Village Shopping Centre, 211 Holland Avenue, tel : +65 8493 0438). This was the queue with an already full house at about 5.30pm on a weekday which according to Google is their opening time for evening service.

From what I could piece together, the restaurant's history started with Sumo-Ya -> Chirashizushi Shou -> Tsukiji Kaisendon -> Takumi Sakaba.

There's Suntory on tap.

And ankimo ponzu.

Their barachirashi was decent as barachirashi went. As an aburi barachirashi, I'll score it something like 2/10. The amount of torching was scant that I could barely taste it. It's not like torching took a lot of skill and this looked like they simply couldn't be bothered.

I'm pretty sure I can get better tasting salmon belly from Donki.