Roast duck with roast pork rice from 威胜碳烤烧腊

More roast meat rice from 威胜碳烤烧腊. Today's roast pork was really fatty. $9 in Feburary 2026 for posterity.

Hvala, Ngee Ann City/Takashimaya

First time at Hvala (#B2-28, 391 Orchard Road).

I'm not sure how I feel about the yuzu warabi mochi. I didn't dislike it but I'm also not sure that I did like it. Maybe it's because I've never had it citrus fruit flavoured. The yuzu flavour was pretty prominent. One also doesn't get the same consistency as those from Warabimochi Kamakura which I like better.

This was....probiotic apple matcha. Apple juice and green tea. Not bad.

Junior Kuppanna, Kitchener Road

I remember seeing the long queues outside Junior Kuppanna at Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur the last time I was there. This was the local branch at Little India (161 Kitchener Road, tel : +65 9235 5116)

Mutton briyani. Full portion. Seeraga Samba rice is used here.

Not bad tasting. Ample warm flavour from the spices in the rice. Mutton was tender but dry-ish. Half of mine were bones. 

Chicken briyani. Half portion. Also not bad tasting. Flavour's a little different because of the meat. Like the other briyani, the protein was tender but dry-ish.

Note to self: Raita has coriander hidden inside.

A couple of curries came with the briyani. The chicken one was spicy, coconut-y and delicious.

Their gobi 65 was nice. Cauliflower florets were coated in a deliciously savoury crisp batter.

Eisbein and seabream from Brotzeit

There's a North Sea menu at Brotzeit which caught our attention recently. 

But first affensaft mango. Affensaft, I venture, is a German equivalent of shandy. Came across the mention of it being called monkey juice. No monkeys were used as far as I could tell. So this was weissbier with mango juice. No monkeys.

The mango flavour was initially faint and got stronger close to the end because the juice ended up mostly at the bottom of the glass.

What intrigued me was their eisbein - or boiled pork knuckles. Tasted kinda like how I imagined. Tender, easily off the bone and still very meaty with some bite to them. Those sauerkraut definitely helped. Potatoes were nice.

The menu mentioned grilled seabream but this appeared to be fried. Anyways, fish was pretty good tasting with firm and flaky meat. Potato salad was nice and tangy.

初二 lunch from Hajah Maimunah @ Jalan Pisang

Been a while since we last ate at Hajah Maimunah. 初二 of CNY was a good time as any and it also coincidentally marked the last day of their operations for this location before it will be closed for a month to focus on tingkat deliveries during the Ramadan period.

The food has mostly been good pretty much every time we're here - barring occasional inconsistencies which aren't common. We've had most if not all of these dishes before so there won't be much to say.

Except maybe for the terung belado which was squishy and tender. Nice with that belado salsa.

Perhaps just a reminder to self that we'll need to break out of the routine stuff once in a while...

...like their paru belado which I don't want to say no to. 😂

Today's assam pedas ikan pari was nicer than the last time. Stingray meat was less stiff.

We finished with some lopes and a green bean soup with coconut milk

Breakfast during 初一 and 初二

初一 Nasi lemak with extra chicken wings from Queenstown Lontong. I got a piece of tau kwa with it today which was unusual because it's not something they, or other nasi lemak stalls for that matter, include in nasi lemak. Not complaining though. I do feel that the rice tasted better when I had it in their old location at Tanglin Halt. I don't see many of the add ons that used to be available anymore too.

初二 Egg, onion & cheese prata from Prata Saga Sambal Berlada (一, 二, 三, 四, 五, 六, 七). Red onions lightly cooked down in the prata with milky saltiness from the cheese which is subsequently layered with a mutton-y dalcha and their signature sambal. Nice! 👍🏼