Si Wei Mao Cai (思味冒菜), Mosque Street

Came across the mention of 思味冒菜 (33 Mosque Street, tel : +65 6223 1170) online and thought that some of the food looked pretty good. 

As we weren't looking for anything particularly spicy in the recent sweltering weather, we ordered things that looked like they were light on the heat. Like these rehydrated and stir fried dry pot willow/tea tree mushrooms (干锅茶树菇). The texture was chewy and almost fibrous. The flavour was somewhat woodsy mushroomy spiced with Szechuan peppercorn. They were tasty at the start but that tastiness suffered from diminishing returns.

The Chinese name for the dish above was 霸道蛙 which is translated by Google as "overbearing frog". Lol. I'm not sure if 'overbearing' is an accurate translation for 霸道. The English description on the menu was 'stir fried frog with shredded romaine lettuce'. Those were definitely not romaine lettuce as we knew them. The Chinese name of the vegetable 笋丝 in the menu translates to bamboo shoots. These aren't bamboo shoots as we know neither.

Anyways, this was pretty good. The sauce was savoury and spiked with a bit of heat paired with slurp off the bone tender frogs and crunchy....vegetables.

The other dish we had was thinly sliced fatty beef in some spicy sour soup. There were more of those crunchy 笋丝 at the bottom of the pot. I thought this was outstandingly moreish with a nice bunch of textures.

We had to have rice with all those delicious sauces.