Oyster rice & sausages from Donki

Some take away from Donki. Those aburi oysters with teriyaki glaze on rice were pretty good tasting. Sausages were salty, fatty and in snappy casing. The brown sauce on the side came with the sausages - tasted like HP Sauce.

Onigiri Gon (おにぎり 権 ), Fortune Centre

Lunch at Onigiri Gon (#01-18, Fortune Centre, 190 Middle Road). Shop seats only about a dozen and queue starts before they open for the day. Once seated, each onigiri is made to order so there could be some waiting time.

One can order these a la carte or in sets. I got the 3 piece onigiri set meal which came with a choice of pickle (kyuri shiokouji/shio koji marinated Japanese cucumber) and soup (aosa misoshru/seaweed white miso).

Which were the 3 lucky ones you might wonder?

• Niku soboro + ranou shoyu - Base was minced meat. Added shoyu marinated egg yolk which is charged separately. Not bad tasting with the egg adding creaminess on top of the shoyu umami.
• Mentaiko + cream cheese - Nice one. Base was mentaiko. Added cream cheese which bumped up the richness and lightly mellowed the edges off the salty mentaiko. My favourite among the three.
• Karashi tanaka - Spicy pickled mustard greens with chilli. Salty and a little spicy. A tried and tested pickled vegetable and rice pairing. This one was runner up.

Seaweed miso soup was nice and smoky.

Pretty happy with the onigiri. A few things to note. The cost does add up with each additional top up. Seaweed and rice tends to stick to the serving paper. Onigiri wasn't very compact so they tended to fall apart while eating.

N.M. Abdul Rahim, Ayer Rajah Food Centre

Have heard some good things online about the mee goreng from N.M. Abdul Rahim (Stall #60 Ayer Rajah Food Centre, 503 West Coast Drive) who's apparently been in in business for some decades. Here's a plate with extra keema. I didn't think there was anything noteworthy about it. Just to be clear, it wasn't bad. Just regular tasting. Generically savoury sweet with a bit of heat but not as dry as I was looking forward to.

Ah Huat Hokkien Prawn Mee, Lengkok Bahru

Ah Huat Hokkien Prawn Mee's (#01-387, 55 Lengkok Bahru) located just next door to Happy Noodles. What's not usual about them is that the guy behind the wok was an Indian dude. Mayhaps he's Ah Huat? 🤔

This was the $6 plate. One can choose the degree of wetness for the Hokkien mee. I wanted mine dryer. Also asked for extra sambal belachan and lard not realising that the based amount they provided was already pretty generous. Anyways, I liked this. It had some smokiness. Pretty good crustacean flavouring from the stock in the noodles. 猪油渣 was a little soft but nicely flavoured. Prawns tasted natural and meaty. I wouldn't mind coming back for this.

Tried their black radish cake. $5. I also liked this. While they weren't as caramelized as I was hoping for, there was adequate black sauce and its sweetness in it which I enjoyed.

小娟什菜饭, Marine Parade Central Food Centre

Noticed 小娟什菜饭 (#01-54 Marine Parade Central Food Centre, 84 Marine Parade Central) which I didn't remember from the past trips here. While the name of the stall mentions cai png, I found some pretty decent char bee hoon. Their fried chicken was also pretty good eating - that amount on the plate was merely a $3 half portion. One can imagine how much chicken can be gotten for a full portion.

Hai Nan Xu Ji Chicken Rice (海南旭记鸡饭), Marine Parade Central Food Centre

Hai Nan Xu Ji Chicken Rice (#01-41 Marine Parade Central Food Centre, 84 Marine Parade Central) came by way of recommendation. It's the 3rd chicken rice stall I've tried here after Lee Heng Hainanese Chicken Rice and Zeng Ji Hainanese Boneless Chicken Rice.

Like Zeng Ji, there doesn't seem to be extra charge for thigh meat. This was poached chicken thigh (白鸡尾) with an egg for $4. Very good value if I may say so. Frills free tender thigh meat with little dressing and rice that was just lightly flavoured which went well with their savoury lime-y & garlicky chilli.