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.

Banana Pudding Oreo

 

So I came across these at Cold Storage.

I can only imagine how banana pudding might taste like. Artificial flavouring of bananas which I usually don't mind.

Might be one layer of regular Oreo cream and another of that banana pudding flavour.

Too sweet. Banana flavour tasted...nothing like I imagined. Didn't like this one.

J2 Famous Crispy Curry Puff, Amoy Street Food Centre

Here's a couple of curry puffs from J2 Famous Crispy Curry Puff (#01-21 Amoy Street Food Centre, 7 Maxwell Road, tel : +65 9475 8425). Both had shatteringly crispy pastry shells and were well filled with their stuffings. On top of that, they never felt heavy or dense.

Sardine's pretty good tasting.

So was the one with chicken and potatoes. Not bad. Didn't recall any egg in there though.

More cai png from Wan Jin Yuan (萬金园)

There's minced pork petai with that got rotated in at Wan Jin Yuan which I've previously not seen. Too bad there wasn't much petai in it. There's some sweetness underlying even though there weren't any onions in it. Gonna be difficult to hold off their fried chicken since they're pretty darn good.