Sichuan Tianfu Restaurant (天府川菜), Grantral Mall @ Clementi

Trying another Chinese shop (#01-17/18 Grantral Mall, 3151 Commonwealth Avenue West, tel : +65 6777 1866) with a pretty extensive menu. Sichuan Tianfu Restaurant is located at the other end of Grantral Mall from where Huang Tu Di Xi’An Delights used to be.

Their mapo tofu is one of the better ones we've had. Which isn't much actually. 😂 The memorable ones that comes to mind from before were from Chen's Mapo Tofu and Keisuke's Gyoza King. What ticked the boxes here were the flavour from the Sichuan peppercorn and their prominent presence of fermented black beans. Nice bit of heat too. I could definitely come back for this. 

Love the sour from the broth in their spicy and sour beef (酸汤肥牛). Thought I detected ginger in it. Red chilli's spicy and the green ones aren't much. I'd rank Qing Hua Jiao X Jing Yue Rong a bit higher in terms of preferences but I'll be happy to have both.

Competently done stir fried cabbage with dried chilli. There're also some Sichuan peppercorns in it in case anyone wants to know and wish to avoid biting into them. What I liked about this dish was also how they had gotten the timing of the vegetables just right that they were properly cooked and yet retained a nice crunch.

This was called home style fried rice; or 农家炒饭. The names do not translate into each other. We liked it. It's much better in terms of composite and flavour than the vegetarian fried rice from 鼎泰豐. Lots of chopped greens, egg and adequate salt.

Anjappar, Race Course Road

Anjappar at Race Course Road (76-78 Race Course Road, tel : +65 6296 5545) is located next to Machan's Kitchen. Have been to the branches at Syed Alwi, Changi Terminal 1 and Westgate. First time eating at this one.

Bring it on bring it...pa-pa-pa-padum!

Was intrigued by their prawn dosa. First time seeing one on the menu here. The wait staff did mention that the prawns used were small ones.

They're curried/masala-ed. Actually kinda tasty. Nice sambar/chutneys/dal on the side.

We got mutton dum briyani today. Apparently, one can choose between basmati and seera/seeraga samba rice. The latter's short grained and of lower GI like basmati.

Pretty good. Love the spice infusion which contained a bit of heat. Mutton was tender and had some bone in parts but wasn't exactly moist. Not a deal breaker there for me. We were drawn into spoonful after spoonful by the savouriness.

Delicious mutton brain roast. Think they were stir fried in omelette and the flavour was similar to the brain fry we had previously at Dindigul Thalappakatti Restaurant. A flavour that oddly reminded me of fish roe.

The masala in their tea was kinda weak. Tea's not bad and not overly sweet which was nice. Would have been great if they had a stronger spice mix.

Tian Tian Le Hainanese Chicken Rice (天天乐海南鸡饭), Beauty World Food Centre

Been wanting to try Tian Tian Le Hainanese Chicken Rice (#04-38 Beauty World Centre, 144 Upper Bukit Timah Road) for some time and it finally happened. Just to get it out of the way, the dark soya sauce you can help yourself to are the sweet ones - the type used for soon kueh. Not the regular type that most chicken rice stalls use.

Soup on the side is chicken soup with pandan flavour. 👍🏼

Chicken was unexpected chilled - which was nice. Meat was cut chunky and even the breast meat was tender.

Rice had a light garlic and ginger flavour. Did not mind the ginger in it. Probably because it was "toned down" by the garlic or maybe it wasn't so strong in the first place. Or maybe both. But this was probably one of the rare ginger flavoured rice that I kinda liked. 

Chilli was lime-y and also slightly gingery which I also did not mind. Paired well with the saltiness from the chicken dressing on the rice.

Some protein. The sweet dark soy sauce worked with these.

Thosai and more prata from Ya-Mahyuddin Al-Jailani

Back at Ya-Mahyuddin Al-Jailani. Got ourselves a masala cheese thosai. Or was that cheese masala thosai. Whichever. They used the cheap plastic wrapped cheeses which I thought was ideal from the sharper saltiness and gooey meltiness which asserted itself in the potatoes.

I upgraded from the cheese banana prata to a cheese egg banana prata today. What I took away from today's prata was that these guys don't stick to one type of banana. They one they used was of a different variety today - unlike the tangy sweet ones from the last time. 😢 These were more like plantains. Low sweetness and tasted potato-y. 

Twelve Hainanese Chicken Rice, Kukoh 21 Food Centre

Noticed the chicken rice from Twelve Hainanese Chicken Rice (#01-04 Kukoh 21 Food Centre, 1 Jalan Kukoh) the previous time we were here from a neighbouring table. Not a bad one. There's a light but discernible flavouring in the rice which allowed me to go all out with their lime-y chilli. Will not mind coming back. 

Kit Kat chocolate toast from Toast Box

I am sometimes a sucker for punishment limited edition toast from Toast Box. This one has chocolate fillings made with Kit Kat. Not nice.