Park Bäckerei, Icon Village

I've been wanting to try Park Bäckerei (#01-41/42 Icon Village, 12 Gopeng Street, tel : +65 8421 0866) since they setup shop. They're mostly handmade German pretzel, stuffed bagels, sausage rolls, sandwiches and some confectionary.

Came across a limited time Easter special. Pulled beef cheese steak sandwich. Looked kinda small.

It was delicious though. That piping hot pulled beef was properly tender and tangy with a likeable barbecue sauce, cheese, pickles and greens. The pretzel bread was crusty on the surface, tender and dense on the insides. Don't mind coming back.

Hot Boss Fav from Tarik

Finally got the hot Boss Fav from Tarik. I like the balance of tea, spices and milk. Flavour was similar to the cold one. Nice. 👍🏼

Pandi Ayya Tiffin Centre, Tekka Food Centre

Been trying to get some food from other stalls at Tekka Food Centre instead of the same few ones we've been going to. This was some idli and vadai from Pandi Ayya Tiffin Centre (#01-240 Tekka Market & Food Centre, 665 Buffalo Road). Those idlis were taken from plastic containers at the front of the stall so I don't know when they were made but they tasted pretty tangy. Vadai was freshly fried and were both tender and crusty. They were all pretty good once the sambar and chutney came into play.

鸭皇 (Duck King), Ghim Moh

I remember having char siew from 鸭皇 (19 Ghim Moh Rd, #01-263) years ago. Not to be confused with the popular roast duck eatery similarly named 鸭皇 from JB. 

This was what I was talking about.

Got ourselves a plate of triple roast - roast pork, char siew and roast duck. All nicely done. There was a crunchy crackling on the roast pork, gummy fatty sweetness from char siew and pretty tender duck breast.

Livers, gizzards and eggs on the side.

Sauce on the left was 当归 for the duck - also worked for roast pork. The other brown sauce was starchy and mediocre.

There was another black sauce - I believe it's dark soya sauce with drippings from one of their meats. This in tandem with the 当归 on their rice was pretty kickass delicious. 

Round two of the meats because the first round left us wanting more.

Teh pandan ais from Tarik

I remember mentioning that I wanted to try the hot spiced tea from Tarik but the weather's too bloody hot. So I ended up with their iced pandan tea instead. I'm not sure if this was just pandan or from a syrup. The flavour got through but didn't taste...natural. Anyways, temperature aside, I thought I like the flavour from the tea at Springleaf Prata Place better. That being said, all that ice here helped in the sweltering heat.

Lamb shoulder blade biryani and haleem from Bismillah Biryani

Been a while since we were at Bismillah @ Dunlop Street. Today happened because of the plug they have been making regarding their lamb shoulder blade biryani. I gotta admit it looked good.

Portion was huge. Could feed two. But it also costed $36.90.

Lamb shoulder blade was pretty tender and had a lot of meat. Just not as spoon tender or moist as I was led to believe from their plug.

Their mutton haleem appeared to be gamier than the last time we had it. I do mean gamey, not lamb-y. That bread on the side was actually their naan; wouldn't be recognised as naan in taste or appearance by anyone here. This was disappointing compared to that last time.