Dulukala, Silat Avenue

I remember eating at Dulukala many years ago at Beauty World. They've since moved out to a stall in a coffee shop at Silat Avenue (Kopi Haus, 148 Silat Avenue) near to the old Cantonment Railway Station.

Got ourselves the ayam buah keluak and the beef rendang sets. Each set is accompanied with chap chye and rice. 

Sauce from the chicken was savoury and the rendang sweet & spicy. Just to be clear, there's a load of spices in the rendang but it has little heat. Beef was relatively tender. Chap chye was tender and packed with flavour.

One has to top up for the actual buah keluak as the chicken doesn't come with any. $2 a piece. We also asked if one could just get buah keluak without ordering the chicken. I wished it was otherwise but 不可以. 😏

Black gold scraped from the insides of the nut. These have a flavour which is somewhat like caramelized fermented black beans. Texture's like a little gritty dryish paste. I also seem to detect a subtle sweetness through the flavour density. It's complex.

Some stir fried lady's finger with ikan bilis. These weren't slimy if anyone was wondering. One could taste the smokiness from the charred vegetable with some sweetness from onions and umami from those ikan bilis. Nice. 

Sambal on the side with manageable heat.

Every dish was a rice thief. The buah keluak and sambal alone wiped out most what I had on my plate.

Sadly their chendol was unimpressive. The coconut milk lacked richness and the dessert felt diluted.

Revisiting Tsujiri Premium @ Tanjong Pagar

Back at Tsujiri Premium. Tried the mango matcha milk cap & black sesame matcha latte. The latter's pretty good with a nice balance of the flavours/aromas from both the matcha & kurogoma. Light on the sweetness as well. As for the mango matcha milk cap...I'm more favourably disposed towards the strawberry one we had previously. Something odd about the mango flavouring.

That's a slice of Okinawa sea salt matcha dark choco cake. Loads of creamy salted dark chocolate with matcha and some crunchy bits of stuff in it. Not bad.

Revisiting Hai Yan Fried Kway Teow Mee (海燕潮州炒粿条麵)

So it was bee hoon the last time and kuey teow mee this time. I guess it's just textural differences. Aside from those beautifully fried eggs with molten yolk, there wasn't much else of note. Maybe I'm just not a char kuey teow person. Wasn't particularly impressed by the likes of Meng Kee or Outram Park Fried Kway Teow Mee even though people seem to think that they're great renditions.

Yuen Kee Dumpling (袁记云饺), Food Junction @ Great World

Came across an outpost of Yuen Kee Dumpling in the food court at Great World (L3 Great World, 1 Kim Seng Promenade).

Their shrimp and vegetable pork dumplings were pretty good tasting. Noticed that there's black fungus in it. Still liking that viral sauce.

Ayam Gepok Anakmak, Ang Mo Kio

Learned of Ayam Gepok Anakmak (#01-877, 215 Ang Mo Kio Avenue 1, Ang Mo Kio Street 22) recently and came to try their ayam gepok. What got my attention was the gajus (cashew) sauce which I haven't been seeing around here.

There're a couple of options. One can get it with regular fried chicken and or ayam berempah. This one's the latter. 

Sadly their ayam berempah was lacklustre. The meat was dry-ish and a little stringy even. Remember that this was chicken thigh. The flavour of the berempah wasn't particularly great. Rice was lumpy. Aside from tofu and tempeh, there's also fried cabbage on the side which I haven't had before. Tasted toasty and bittersweet.

I mentioned interest for the gajus sauce. That's accompanied by sambal. One can choose level 0-4 for spiciness with 0 being not spicy at all. This was a 2. And it packed substantial heat. The sauce was akin to a coarse cashew butter - nutty and oily in a good way. Pretty good with the sambal because the sambal has the salt. Any spicier this level and I probably wouldn't have been able to taste much of the food.

Jeju Sanghoe & Juk (제주상회&죽), myVillage @ Serangoon Gardens

This outpost by Jeju Sanghoe is Jeju Sanghoe & Juk (#B1-03 myVillage @ Serangoon Gardens, 1 Maju Avenue) - the name clearly references their porridge which has more variety than the shop at Tras Street.

But first some chilled sikhye which was a sweet reprieve from the blazing heat.

We came here today for their abalone innards juk/porridge.

Quite a bit of sliced abalones in there.

I was expecting more intense flavour because of the innards but the flavours that mostly came through was from the seaweed and sesame oil. It was a nice bowl of porridge though.