Chop Chop, International Plaza

Came across Chop Chop (#02-67/68 International Plaza, 10 Anson Road, tel : +65 8770 3533) recently. The shop's located close to the escalator in the middle of the building. Food could be considered Thai and the menu offers a curated and straightforward combination of starch and proteins with options for sides.

This was the chicken with turmeric rice. $4.50 for the basic configuration which was just that - chicken and rice. Topping up a few dollars ($7.50 ☝🏼) gets additional two sides and a drink. Got myself some buttery broccoli/cauliflower called California Mix (🤔) and a mushroom egg thingy.

Chicken was thigh meat with a flavouring that tasted like a soy glaze/marinate that was savoury and a little sweet. Rice has turmeric flavouring and little else I could discern. The plate got a lot better once the tub of their nam jim has been drizzled over. Layered an umami hit of garlicky sweet, salty and lime with just a bit of coriander (which I didn't mind) that bumped both the rice and chicken up by a considerable notch. 👍🏼

There's sea bass with jade noodles. Noodles had garlic bits and fish came with a sweet sauce which like kecup manis. That nam jim worked on this too.

Lemon tea's not bad. Didn't taste like the regular variety. Something about the citrus in there that's different.

Feng Xiang Bak Kut Teh (豐香肉骨茶 · 炒粥), Food Republic @ Vivocity

The last time I had the fried porridge from Feng Xiang Bak Kut Teh was when they were still operating at Beauty World. I've been wanting to come to this stall in Food Republic at VivoCity (#03-01 VivoCity, 1 HarbourFront Walk) for some time but have also been avoiding it because of the crowd. Finally happened by chance. Got a serving with mixed pork innards. The smokey fried porridge was till as good.

Greek Shack stuff from Shake Shack

The current limited time them from Shake Shack is the Greek Shack. It basically involves using things like tzaziki, za'atar and mediterranean-esque ingredients like parsley, fresh onions, cucumber and tomatoes.

It's actually much better than their usual limited time menu items. This one had a layer of crisp freshness layered over their meat and the tanginess from the tzaziki to cut through. 

For some reasons, they were still "making" the tzaziki for the fries when they served so we ended up eating them with the cream from their summer peach shake. Fries + cream = 👍🏼

A summer peach shake that was a little bit more sweet than that we're comfortable with. Didn't taste peachy like what we're used to in peach teas. There's peach folded into it but it mostly tasted of vanilla.

Tzaziki was ready after a while.

Pretty refreshing with the fries. I seem to taste mint in it.

Getting pretty pricey eating at Shake Shack.

SG61 lunch at Wolfgang's Steakhouse

Lunch at Wolfgang's Steakhouse.

Their beef kut teh from last year's SG60 has made it into their lunch menu item called Taste Of Singapore.

The SG61 special is/was their 60 day dry aged USDA Prime bone in ribeye. Nice and funky, not particularly juicy. Came with the mashed potato/creamed spinach/NY style cheesecake.

Uncle Louis Famous Chicken Rice, Amoy Street Food Centre

Came across Uncle Louis Famous Chicken Rice (#01-02 Amoy Street Food Centre, 7 Maxwell Road) which has taken over the previous chicken rice stall right next to the char kuey teow stall at Amoy Street Food Centre. I remember seeing another branch at Maxwell Food Centre and I was told that there's another at Market Street Hawker Centre.

This was poached chicken thigh (白鸡尾) for two with a couple of eggs and liver. Not bad tasting. Sauce was slightly sweet and full of sesame oil. Meat was tender but not so easily slurped off the bone.

This was probably not the best picture to show that there's a thin layer of chicken jelly neath the skin of their chilled chicken.

Rice was pretty good with and without their garlicky/gingery chilli sauce which packed more heat than I anticipated. I'd take this over Tian Tian.

Labrador Malay Food, Telok Blangah Crescent Food Centre

 

I'm pretty sure I've been to Labrador Villa Food Centre at least a couple of times before they were demolished back in 08. Might have noticed Labrador Malay Food from back then but I don't recall. They've presumably moved to their current spot (#01-105 Telok Blangah Crescent Market & Food Centre, 11 Telok Blangah Crescent) from that point and have been here since.

Got a plate of nasi padang - from top right and clockwise, tapioca leaves in masak lemak, sambal hard boiled, paru goreng and a bunch of...shellfish. I'm pretty sure some looked like cockles. Then there were some that tasted like clams and some others, mussels. Anyways, they were all cooked in sambal with petai. Not much petai in there though. All pretty good tasting.