I've only noticed Chinatown Teh Tarik (40B Sago Street) some months back. I think. They're located in a shophouse at the junction of Sago Street and Trengganu Street - right behind Smith Street Food Centre. A stone's throw from Buddha Tooth Relic Temple as well.
I swear this could have passed off as a place like Taiwan. But we're not there. Did not look as picturesque in real life when I was taking the shot.
Anyways, they're a mamak stall. Looked Indian Muslim and we're familiar with what they generally offer. That's a masala prata with egg and onion. The masala component of it was curried potatoes. It's not bad tasting. Prata wasn't overly crispy and had a bit of chew. What was odd was that in spite of how much onions they put inside, there wasn't much of the acidity from those.
Also tried an uttapam with onions. Also not bad. Coconut chutney was a little gingery while the orange chutney was.....I like it. Spicy savoury and something in it oddly reminded me of bean sprouts. That last part was unexpected.
We had a thosai too.
If you're still figuring out, those bits inside are canned mushrooms. There's cheese in it as well. The plastic ones. Pretty decent.
What was obvious though from both the uttapam and thosai was that the rice flour batter they used barely had any of the tang normally associated with fermentation. Those flavours which I had been looking forward to felt toned down.
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