Yuen Kee Dumpling (袁记云饺), Funan

Finally got to try Yuen Kee Dumpling (#02-3 Funan, 107 North Bridge Road, tel : +65 8931 9588). I must have walked past their shops at least a couple of times in my last trip to Hong Kong and Taiwan. There's barely anyone in there. The ones here are on the other hand, often packed. 🤔

Tried their shrimp and crab roe wanton with the viral sauce. Maybe viral in the context of the sauce means common or ubiquitous. It's a little spicy but not special or great and surfeit crept in pretty fast from the peanut sauce. Thankfully, there's vinegar and chopped garlic from their condiment section which made inhaling this enjoyable. Not bad wantons.

The other dumpling they had were 饺子. This one was stuffed with vegetable, shrimp and pork. Skin's hardier and less smooth than the wanton. The amount of garlic from the garlic sauce was pathetic.

I don't mind coming back only if I don't have to wait more than a few minutes in line for it.

Labobo with extra patty in sesame bagel from Two Men Bagel House

Labobo's the recent flavour of the month at Two Men Bagel House ( 一, 二, 三, 四, 五, 六, 七, 八, 九, 十, 十一, 十二, 十三, 十四, 十五, 十六, 十七, 十八, 十九, 二十, 二十一, 二十二, 二十三, 二十四, 二十五, 二十六, 二十七, 二十八, 二十九, 三十) featuring beef patties from BurgerLabo.

Love how the dill pickled onions and apple mostarda help cut though the hefty patties with the tangy sweetness.

Hunan grilled chilli pidan chicken burger from Shiok Burger

I was intrigued by the grilled chilli pidan chicken burger from Shiok Burger. Sadly, it turned out that the burger looked little like the picture they used. I expected better so now I know better than to expect better from them. 🙄 *cues rumination on the need for law against deliberate false advertising*

The century egg had texture like fish cake. Odd. 🤔 They were also tinier than what the pictures suggested. Not nearly enough to go round as well.

The product shot featured some intense green looking sauce. What we got was something that had a bit of green chilli in mostly mayo. Kinda disappointing.

Revisiting Alice Boulangerie & Restaurant @ Raffles City

More food from Alice Boulangerie & Restaurant.

Their grilled beef tongue skewers were tender. The flavour of whatever it had been braised/stewed in had throughly infused the meat and it tasted kinda like Chinese dark soy sauce. Or lor bak. What I didn't like was the sauce on top which had ginger. Don't recall seeing ginger mentioned in the menu.

Lobster bisque orzo was not bad. I was expected more intensity to the bisque but maybe I was expecting a bit too much from them. There's minced crab meat in it.

Mac & cheese was bad. Menu mentioned mozzarella, parmesan and blue cheese. I'm not sure I tasted any blue cheese. I tried. It's mostly mozzarella and cream with little salt to fight the surfeit that came after a couple of mouthful.

I did what I had to in a bad situation and fell back to a reliable remedy.

Corn tart's not bad. The sweetness with the whole pastry was largely moderated except for something inside the tart which was noticeably more intense. Couldn't tell what it was.

Carrot cake's nice. Love the spices in the cake and that cream cheese frosting wasn't overly sweet.

Song Gye Ok (송계옥), Centrepoint

Song Gye Ok has a branch at Centrepoint (#02-53 The Centrepoint, 176 Orchard Road, tel : +65 8088 2035). Menu looks similar to the shop at Telok Ayer.

We were here for their cheongguk doenjang jjigae and more grilled chicken parts.

But first some sikhye. Today's tasted toasty.

I just noticed that they sprinkle parmesan cheese on their baek kimchi. It works.

Got ourselves some chicken hearts and garlic fried rice.

And chicken neck which was fatty with crisp skin.

Nice.

Love the Uiseong garlic fried rice. It has cheese melted in and there was a nice natural sweetness which seemed to come from the garlic. This tasted much better than it looked.

What I was looking forward to was their SGO Cheongguk Doenjang Stew which I couldn't help but compare to the impressive cheonggukjang jjigae from Ko Ryo Jeong. This one was less stinky but delicious in its own fermented bean-y way.

La Zi Ji Crunch from KFC

I haven't had the local KFC in a while and was surprised at the quality of the chicken. It's actually decent. 😬 This was their limited time la zi ji (辣子鸡) styled fried chicken with dried chilli, a bit of Sichuan peppercorn and I noticed sesame seeds. The mala-esque flavour was there albeit moderated for the mass market. It's not a bad rendition. It's just not so spicy. Jollibee's spicy chicken and the McSpicy packs more heat.