Taste of Sri Lanka, Sims Place

Another Sri Lankan stall (Mei Cheng Coffee Shop, #01-150, 53 Sims Place) has popped up on the radar.

This was their chicken curry meal which came with some salad, dal, potatoes (I detected cumin I think), papadam and choice of another vegetable. I got the beetroot. The curry was light with little to no coconut milk. Dal's delicious. There's loads of texture in this plate.

There's some kattal sambal which you could help yourself with which packed some heat, salt and something seafoody. The flavour of those reminded me of hae bi hiam. From what I gathered online, there's supposed to be fish in it. 👍🏼

Curry puff & goreng pisang from Selera Restaurant

I remember getting curry puffs in the vicinity many many years back. What I couldn't recollect was if they were from Selera Restaurant or Old Chang Kee across the road.

Tried a puff lately and based on impressions (aha!), I like these better than Old Chang Kee. But then again, I'm also biased against Old Chang Kee for their gimmicks and increasing prizes.

The skin was a nicer hue of golden brown and the fillings seem to taste "nicer". The oil in the fryer didn't inspire confidence though. Lol. 

Goreng pisang was awesome. Skin wasn't excessively thick or oily and had a good crisp to boot. The melty pisang raja inside was sweet and banana-y.

I need to come back for more of these.

Appam Place, Tekka Food Centre

Came across Appam Place (#01-235 Tekka Market & Food Centre, 665 Buffalo Road) recently. Left's chocolate and right's cheese. The picture they had led me to believe that they batter was folded with chocolate but it wasn't the case. These had some hazelnut chocolate spread over them. And curiously, color rice sprinkles as well. Noticed that they also gave jaggery.

More food from Tim Ho Wan (添好運)

More recent eats at Tim Ho Wan. Aside from some of the things we tended to get like their pan fried radish cake, spinach prawn dumpling and recently their morel dumpling which weren't photo-ed, there's a bunch of limited time stuff from their SG61 “Flavours of Singapore” specials.

XO fried rice with bacon and luncheon meat. Pretty decent. For something that has bacon and luncheon meat, this was really low on salt.

This was bak chor rice rolls - a take on bak chor mee obviously, using cheong fun. There's minced pork, stewed mushrooms, some fried pork lard, tau gay and a token sprinkle of chopped spring onions. It's not lardy like some of the local bcm but it was an interesting take, especially with the vinegar in the sauce that made it easy to inhale.

Not bad laksa seafood dumplings that's stuffed with bits of shrimp, scallops and water chestnut. Those water chestnuts were unexpectedly chunky. Laksa gravy was a little thin but it wasn't bad. Would have been great if there were more laksa leaves. 

I don't think I've never had egg tarts from Tim Ho Wan before. It might be a first time for me. Short crust pastry with eggy custard inside - typical of Hong Kong styled egg tarts. Not bad.

Never seen this peach gum & goji berries in coconut soup dessert before. I reckon it would have been nicer if there were more peach gum.

Some calamansi lemongrass fizz for the weather. Flavour was like a preserved plum (酸梅) drink, but Not particularly lemongrass-y,

Mint rice from Sri Aachi Aappakadai Pte Ltd

Tried another of the colored rice from Sri Aachi Aappakadai Pte Ltd. This one was mint/pudina. Tasted quite different from the savoury one from MTR or the ghee-y one from Bangalore Cafe. This one tasted like mint chutney with heat. It was savoury as well but also seemed to have more mint flavour along with the coriander in the background which I did not mind. Peanuts, curry leaves, mustard seeds, dried red chilli and green chilli inside too. Oh, and that sour achar sauce on the size

 Not bad. 👍🏼

Revisiting John's Pizzeria & Bakery

 

Been years since we've last eaten at John's Pizzeria. The menu has gotten more variety over those years. Maybe it's because of the re-runs of POI but the John that popped up in my head was a very different John who might own the joint. The one I see is Mr Reese. 😂 Anyways......

House lemonade. Pretty sour. Not fantastic.

That's their NY styled sourdough cheeseburger pizza. I had initially thought that their burger sauce on top of the pie was mustard but it turned out to be a "Big Mac sauce" with dill. Not bad. Crust has improved since the last time we've had them. Wished that there was more ground beef with what they're charging but it was what it was.

They do Detroit style as well apparently. This was burrata, hot honey and pepperoni. Also not bad. Crust was nicely crispy on the edges and cheesy. The toppings here were more standard variety as compared to Artichoke which to their form tends to be more exotic cross cultural.

This was a much better pizza experience compared to the first time we've had them.