More food from Ananda Bhavan

One of the times I'm having a dosai with no stuffings. It's usually been with masala or onions or cheese or a combination of those. Today, it was just a simple ghee rava dosai. Made with clarified butter (ghee) and semolina flour (rava) if anyone was wondering. They sprinkled some sliced green chillis in them. I like how these rava dosai texturize which ends up with that mix of a little bit of chew and the crisp from the browned portions - spiced up with those chutneys and sambar that they provide.

The last time we stopped by here we had their pav bhaji and it was only after I ordered that I realized that they had the cheese version as well. Something that I've not had for ages so here's one. I think they might have added less ghee compared to the regular one because there was cheese in it. Still a pretty tasty snack it made.

Longer operating hours at Sap Thai Food

Good news, Sap Thai Food is now open for dinner these days and even in the weekends. Hence here's another amongst a handful of stalls that's still available at dinner time at Amoy FC. They're located just next door to Quan Ji who happens to be more "aggressive" with getting their customers.

We got a plate of their yum mama noodles, tom yum-ish curly instant noodles in a lime-y broth. This was pretty good but I would probably want to dial the heat down a notch to the less spicy option the next time since this left me with burning lips.

The last time I ate here, I saw larb gai and wanted to try. It was called mint chicken salad or something. There was something else in it other than mint. Some jagged leaf thing that reminded me of coriander even though the stall claimed that it was only mint since I've already requested for no coriander. Ack!

Here's a pad krapow gai where we opted for basil minced chicken to be non-spicy. Pretty darned good I must say even without the invigorating heat that it is normally prepared with.

Brotzeit, Raffles City

Brotzeit's (#01-17 Raffles City, 252 North Bridge Road) menu doesn't change much. Or perhaps I should say didn't change much. With the exception of a few things. I think. It's been largely the same since they opened years ago and the mainstays, stay. People usually just come for the schweinshaxe, sausages and beer anyways. Me, I dig their spiced red cabbage. Or rotkohl.

Also enjoy their fladen. I've always referred to them as German pizza which is pretty much what they were. Good munching it made. There's one with pulled beef cheek that's actually pretty good. Now I know there's another one that I like other than the Black Forest one.

The other thing which I thought was worth getting were their pork medallions. Something I don't remember from their old days but it's been around. Bacon wrapped pork....medallions and some garlic butter I think. Meaty and hearty. It doesn't always have to be schweinshaxe just so that you know.

Shun Xing Wanton Noodles, Beo Crescent Food Centre

This stall (#01-89, 38A Beo Crescent) was old school kinda tasty. Noodles had bite, didn't have that horrendous alkali taste and weren't clumped together. They had char siew which were the lean and red dyed kind that used to be ubiquitous when I was a kid. Nothing extraordinary, just what they are. Their wanton were not bad though. Smooth, slurpy skinned and definitely not the size of your thumbnails. For a local wanton mee stall, they are pretty decent and I'd eat this again. 

Winter is here....at Fika

We've returned! There's a blueberry soup (blåbärssoppa) on the menu. It's sweet, tastes like warm juice. Mmmm.....

After trying their räksmörgås the last time, we decided to try their skagen on a baked potato. I thought this was quite tasty even though I would have preferred more dill.

This winter plate was the only item we tried from their seasonal menu. It was like a mini-smörgåsbord if you would. Let's see - some chicken sausages, meatballs (today's was floury and not nice) on a beet salad, some smoky ham and salmon, spice rubbed turkey breast, a pomegranate salad, some rye bread and a chicken & pistachio terrine. 

Re-revisiting Baba Wins'

A quick one from a recent eat at Baba Wins'.

We had the sambal lady's fingers again. 

And something that was called nonya scrambled eggs on the menu which was eggs stir fried with tomatoes, mushrooms and those crispy grago. This would really benefit from a bit more salt.

We tried their ngoh hiang. It's got a nicely fried skin and bits of water chestnuts amidst the minced pork in the stuffings. While these were competently done, I'm not such a fan of these rolls when the five spice powder is the predominant flavour. 

One of the current updates to their menu are pepper squids in dark soya sauce. Those squids were exceptionally tender.