Revisiting Ka-Soh at Outram

This visit to Ka-Soh was triggered by their pork lard fried rice. Supposedly an outlet exclusive dish by them.

But we had to have an order of their san lau her fen/sum lou hor fun (三捞河粉). Pretty decent rendition of this dish they do with some scorched smokiness on the rice noodles.

The pork lard fried rice came with deep fried pork belly which I didn't expect. Those deep fried strips of pork belly were crispy and tasty as one can imagine but the lard was oddly lacking in flavour while fried rice was a disappointment. For whatever reasons, it ended up being excessively greasy and the flavour from the rice was bland-ish + forgettable. What a combo for a dish from a supposed institution eh? It happens.

Kang kong stir fried with shrimp paste was not bad tasting though. Would have been nice if it were a little less oily.

Never knew that Ka-Soh has deep fried orh nee on the menu. You heard that right - it's orh nee and not regular yam or mashed yam. These were drizzled sparingly with something that might have been honey but I couldn't tell. Not bad tasting and I would give them higher scores if they could just make the fried skins thinner and lighter. But they won't because these stubborn old institutions never change the way they do things thinking that they've done it right because they've survived this long. Not gonna argue with that.