Park Bäckerei, Icon Village

I've been wanting to try Park Bäckerei (#01-41/42 Icon Village, 12 Gopeng Street, tel : +65 8421 0866) since they setup shop. They're mostly handmade German pretzel, stuffed bagels, sausage rolls, sandwiches and some confectionary.

Came across a limited time Easter special. Pulled beef cheese steak sandwich. Looked kinda small.

It was delicious though. That piping hot pulled beef was properly tender and tangy with a likeable barbecue sauce, cheese, pickles and greens. The pretzel bread was crusty on the surface, tender and dense on the insides. Don't mind coming back.

Recent Shakings and Shackings

Recent eat at Shake Shack. Wanted to catch the Greek Shack before it rotated out. We got the single patty thinking that we'd get more tzatziki out of each bite but it seemed like there were less of them in the single patty configuration. Sad.

Double meat hamburger still isn't adequately salted if you added just one slice of cheese. I wished they'd salt the meat more.

Temptation's the one thing we'll never resist. Maybe.

A&W, Jewel

We haven't eaten from A&W (#B2-209 Jewel, 8 Airport Boulevard) for a long time. Stopped by for some food after our late night arrival back to Singapore. 

The root beer tasted weird. The first thought that instinctively came to mind after the first sip was if it was made from tap water. Pretty sure I tasted something like a mild chlorine flavour in it.

That's their cream cheese burger. Not sure what cream cheese was it that they used but it tasted more like mayo/cream than cream cheese to me. Will not get it again. Not good.

Curly fries be curly fries.

Operator Diner, Lonsdale Street, Melbourne CBD

Operator Diner (Shop 2/130 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, tel : +61 3 8395 6341) is an American styled diner in the CBD.

Long black's sour. Flat white was......ok.

Got ourselves a breakfast muffin call Usual Suspect. Went big with the bacon and sausage combo which is topped with poached egg, cheese, their BBQ bacon chutney and a hash brown on the side.

Muffin was too wobbly to eat by hand. Not bad tasting. The sausage was pretty tasty.

Had an order of their Love Me Tender (chicken tenders) because they mentioned blue cheese sauce. Sauce was cheesy but we didn't get any blue cheese flavour and it was pre-mixed. How did we know it was pre-mixed? We asked if they could have it with more blue cheese and they told us so. Pretty disappointing. The tenders and fries were nicely done though.

Some drink called The Big Apple - single origin coffee (not that I could tell), apple juice, spiced chai, brown sugar foam and cinnamon. Not bad.

Pecan pie was too sweet. Didn't think much of it.

Apparently, Zac Efron was here. Filming. Pretty sure they marked the seat he was at just like what was done when Harry met Sally at Katz's Deli. I just never found out which one was it.

Hosted home BBQ

BBQ from friends that hosted us in this trip. There were drumlets and lamb t-bones and duck fat potatoes.

And also the obligatory salad, beans, corn and hotdogs. Those dogs were good.

Picklecore Meal from KFC (Australia)

Came across a limited time pickle-y promotion from KFC. Got the Picklecore Meal.

Which came with a fried chicken sandwich that had pickles and pickle mayo in it.

I liked it. Had a nice tang and wet crunch which mayo in regular chicken sandwiches wouldn't have. Would have been great if there were a few more slices of pickles in it to pickle things up even more.

Their pickled loaded chips came with fried pickles, pickle sauce and popcorn chicken. Not bad but these pickles here appear dehydrated. I was thinking that they'd be fried and crispy.

More popcorn chicken.

More pickle sauce as well. There appeared to be quite a bit of dill in it which I liked.

Their Pickle Pepsi Max came "deconstructed". Basically it was just Pepsi with a container of pickle juice and a couple of slices of pickles.

I wanted to say that one shouldn't knock it before trying it but I think I will withhold that. I liked this. Pepsi with extra tang. Nice. I can make this myself at home too.

This one piece Original was an add on. I haven't had it in years, I don't remember if it was the same as the last time I had one. It's okay.

Hector's Deli, Little Collin's Street, Melbourne CBD

Breakfast at Hector's Deli (61 Little Collins Street, Melbourne). I hear that these guys are known for their sandwiches so we got a couple.

This was the beef and pickles. The menu described it with "beef pastrami, American cheese, hectic sauce, mustard pickle spread, dill pickles and kraut on light rye". Pretty pickle-y and sour which was the dominant flavour that overwhelmed the slices of pastrami in it. Bread was very crunchy. Not for people with weak teeth.

Their mushroom melt was equally crunchy and also pretty sour. That sour came from the mustard pickle spread. Personally, I thought the mushrooms were sidelined.

Okay-ish matcha.

The sandwiches were pretty hefty so we had to doggie bag half of them. 

The next day......

Here's that beef and pickle again the next day. It tasted noticeably better with extra butter and maple syrup.

Chicken sausage jalapeño cheese bagel from McD

McD's limited variant of their breakfast bagel. According to them, there's jalapeño cheese in those bagels.

Couldn't tell that there was cheese baked into those bagels. The jalapeños were weak - barely discernible. Another half-assery by McD.

Mom's Touch, 18 Cross

Mom's Touch disappeared from our shores some time back and have made a return. The last time we've had anything from them was their spicy chocolate chicken years ago. They're currently located at 18 Cross (#01-03, 18 Cross, 181 South Bridge Road), the building formerly known as Cross Street Exchange.

One of the Singapore exclusives is their Angus beef burger. This was the double. Pretty sure the beef was not salted because I could detect all the locked it beefiness in there that was begging to be released. If only they had salted the meat.

Then again, I got this sauceless and maybe that wasn't how they rolled. I'd classify this as edible but I'm not likely to get it again.

White garlic chicken burger's not bad. Chunky fried chicken thigh meat, ham, onions, pickles, lettuce, cheddar and some garlic sauce. Though pretty similar to that Incredible Burger I had from them years back, I enjoyed this more. Pretty sure it wasn't just because of that garlic sauce.

These were the least Cajun Cajun fries I've had.

Their banana milk coffee was nicer than the recent one from McD. More banana flavour and better tasting coffee. Shame on McD. What I did not like though was that even though I had opted for less ice, there was still a lot of ice. Like half a cup of it.

Durian kaya pandan toast from Ya Kun

Durian kaya pandan toast from Ya Kun. They were sufficiently light handed with the durian paste so some of the kaya flavours still came through. Personally, I thought they should've just forgone the kaya and stuck with just the durian paste but I appreciate that they're desperately trying to get something "local" out for this year's ND. What's obviously gimmicky was the pandan toast. Why bother when you cannot even taste it?

Hail to the King

Some stuff from BK.

Buttermilk beef burger. I'm not even sure how to describe the buttermilk sauce in this one. Burger's kinda small. Will not be getting again.

Their long chicken sandwich which is the overpriced McChicken that I feel tastes better than McChicken.

Some smoky maple mayo fries which I'm guessing is not a permanent item. It's actually kinda addictive with that smoky maple flavour. Left my fingers smelling like the syrup from McD's hotcakes.

Was curious about their cempedak mochi bites.

Chewy mochi clad in light crunchy shell that's stuffed with....I'm not sure what to call them but it tasted like cempedak paste. A load of flavour from the fruit in it. Not a bad one.

Look at how thin their fried pies are.

Chrysanthemum cream cheese pie. Pretty noticeable chrysanthemum flavouring there.