Ramen Shoshiji, Orchard Plaza

If one were in the know, Ramen Shoshiji (#03-42 Orchard Plaza, 150 Orchard Road) is a buzz about town now. What they bring to the table is a never seen before (at least for me) ginger shoyu ramen. The standard bowls on menu here appear to be said ginger shoyu and a Hakata tonkotsu. There's also tori paitan, Iekei and Jiro styled on rotation based on availability.

Availability is determined by updates on their IG.

Tried their pork shumai. These were huge, freshly steamed, moist on the insides and tender. Nice. 👍🏼

We were given plate with a smudge of mustard for the shumai. I enjoyed the pairing.

The other condiment(s) which worked with the shumai are the doubanjiang or doubanjiang with garlic.

I'm typically not a ginger person but I thought the broth from their ginger shoyu ramen rocked. This bowl was with extra ginger. Brought about a nice bit of prickle at the back of the throat. Did not expect to take to it but I ended up liking it and being amazed by myself enjoying it.

The Hakata tonkotsu bowl was somewhat more pedestrian. There seemed to be an underlying sweetness in the broth which I preferred without. Charshu's lean-ish. Nothing particularly special about this.

Interestingly, they have a wider range of hardness for their Hakata tonkotsu noodles than the other ramen-ya around. I got the ultra hard which wasn't very hard at all.

Kucina, Food Republic @ 313

This was just bad. 👎🏼

This was their cheese wheel pasta - was pretty surprised that there was so much cream in it. That cheese wheel was just a gimmick because there wasn't much cheese flavour. It's obviously mostly cream. Tasted cheap. Couldn't even discern the black pepper in it.  

Meatball had a mushy texture and tasted floury. There were a lot of fillers in them and did not taste good.

We're generally against food wastage but it infuriated me thinking that I'd have to swallow these so as not to waste food. We didn't finish it. Will not be coming back. 👎🏼

Delhi Lahori, Tekka Food Centre

Delhi Lahori (#01-266 Tekka Market & Food Centre, 665 Buffalo Road) among the eats at Tekka Market has landed itself a Michelin Bib Gourmand which piqued my curiosity. A bunch of the stuff from the stall weren't available at the opening hour when we were there. So I ended up with chapati and keema. Latter's spicy packed a bit of heat with nicely flavoured minced mutton. It's more watery than I thought though.

A few days later......

Fish tikka - very tender and salty. Not smokey like I imagined them to be.

Some naan with dal and palak paneer. Both the lentils and spinach were unexpectedly spicy - not bad tasting as gravies/dips went. Cheese naan was sadly not so cheesy. Kashmiri naan tasted generic with maraschino cherry, raisins and some unidentifiable bits of nuts.

Taste Ipoh, Raffles City

Some food from Taste Ipoh (#B1-81 Raffles City, 252 North Bridge Road). As the name of the eatery would suggest, they're doing Ipoh styled food and according to them, the menu's a "celebration of Ipoh's culinary heritage".

Tried their crispy poh piah which has dried shrimp (hae bi) flavour in it. We like this rendition better than the one from Auntie Mei's Crispy Popiah even though it didn't have as much crunchy bits. Did have more sweet sauce and was more competently wrapped.

That's something called Fragrant Spicy Dry Curry Chicken (Varuval) Bee Hoon Mee - not bad. Not understanding the 'varuval' part in the name but I'm guessing it's got to do with the chicken. Texture from the noodles were pleasantly firm and we kinda enjoyed the dark gravy flavoured with curry from the "dry curry" chicken.

Pretty good tasting Ipoh white kopi c. Coffee's fairly robust with adequate fragrance.

Pazonia Italian Street Food, Amoy Street

Pazonia Italian Street Food (49 Amoy Street) has been mentioned a bit in the chatters lately. Mostly about their panuozzo. We walked past them on the way to Sodeng recently and I kinda decided that I wanted to check them out and made a mental note to come back.

I liked their burrata & Parma Ham panuozzo. Got this with extra balsamic glaze.

Burrata was chilled with creamy oozy innards of stracciatella like a luxuriant frosting over the salty Parma ham and peppery rockets. Not bad pizza bread. Gripes? Not tasting any of the pesto or olive oil they claim to be in there. That usually means it's either not enough or not good enough.

Their carbonara was "alla Romana". Just enough of the emulsified egg and cheese coating al dente rigatoni. Nicely done but could be improved with better quality black pepper. Love those chunks of salty/fatty/porky guanciale in there.

Go-Ang Pratunam Chicken Rice, Anchorpoint

Go-Ang Pratunam Chicken Rice has been around for some years and have a number of branches around. Having their chicken rice for the first time. Never ate at the original in Bangkok before. This was Anchorpoint (#01‬-07/08 Anchorpoint, 70 Alexandra Road, ‎tel  : +65 6470 8200).

Ice rose milk tea was pretty good - exactly like bandung with Thai tea if anyone's wondering. Roselle was decent, but it's not in the same leagues as the one from Din Tai Fung. 

Both the thigh & breast meat chicken rice were nicely done. They're similar to the local Hainanese rendition minus the drizzle of sesame/chicken oil and light soya sauce. Rice was flavoured enough to eat on its own.

Salty chicken soup and sauces. The dark one reminded me of a less viscous chee cheong fun sauce with chilli.

Not bad tasting bitter gourd with eggs - the only thing I didn't quite like was the excessive oil which were pooling at the bottom of the plate.

Sambal kang kong's competent and nothing out of the ordinary.

We liked their steamed tapioca and coconut cream dessert. Nice sweetness from tapioca and light saltiness from that cream. What we also appreciated was that those tapioca weren't fibrous.