A rice plate from the Indian stall at IMM's cafeteria

That's the small cafeteria on the 4th floor at IMM (2 Jurong East Street 21). I've eaten at this stall more than a few times. The food's fairly decent. Curry's a little thin. Cabbage needs a little more flavour. But very edible stuff. I like their fried fish for some reason. It has a thin and bread-y spiced batter that's sometimes still crisp on the edges. 

Mrs Pho, Beach Road

I've been wanting to come down to this place (349 Beach Road, tel : +65 6292 0018) for quite a while now but due to the location, it's always been out of sight and out of mind for us. We'd happen by once in a while and then exclaim that we pho-got about this little shop *insert cringe*. But today's finally happened and I'm glad we made it.

We liked what we had. Like their packed goi cuon which were fatter and one up from the ones at O Banh Mi...

...and also the goi du du. A crunchy and tangy papaya salad not unlike som tam with some sliced boiled pork and shrimp with tasty bits of fried shallots and basil.

A pleasant find was their banh canh cua. Rat tail noodles it appeared with shrimp, minced bits of crab and what tasted like pork balls with something. Not sure what's that something. This bowl tasted like a Vietnamese rendition of our local prawn noodles with a crustacean sweet broth.

Pho bo tai was pretty good too. I thought the broth was a good balance between the beefy savoury and sweetness and what I especially enjoyed was that the cinnamon that was pretty pronounced.

Khin Kee Handmade Fishball Kway Teow, Havelock Road Food Centre

My attention was initially was drawn to this stall (#01-06 Havelock Road Cooked Food Centre, 22A/B Havelock Road) because of the queue I've noticed in the various times I've been to the 38 Curry Rice stall. Yeah, they're just next to each other. And that it mentioned handmade fish balls so I thought it would be worth a try.

How was it? It's not bad. Their mee pok was pretty generic. I couldn't say that their chilli or their vinegar that they used on the noodles were anything out of the ordinary either. But their fried fish cakes were delicious. Reminded me of those from River South Prawn Noodles. Fishballs were indeed the hand made variety. That's quite the rarity these days. Those were not bad as well but it's not Li Xin.

hans im glück, Orchard Road

I had wanted to say that this German burger grill restaurant (362 Orchard Road) from Munich appeared out of nowhere but that wasn't entirely true. Their premise between the Thai Embassy and International Building had been boarded up for quite a while so now we've finally found out what had been quietly setting up. A burger restaurant with a bunch of trees!

Had a geissbock. One of their beef burgers with feta cheese, fig jam and bacon. From what I could gather, the meat's Australian beef at 20/80. All these between sourdough buns.

I got the tangy saltiness from the feta and sweetness from the fig jam. Bacon was present but not the in your face kind of obvious. I suppose the combination of flavours just meant that the beefiness from the patty wasn't as pronounced as something like Omakase Burger. Not to mention that the burger tasted pretty clean with the lack of grease. I don't think these were meant to be like the American styled burgers in the first place.

Ah Mah Traditional Homemade Egg Sponge Cake

It hasn't escaped me how woefully thick the marketing of this particular branding was. The over borrowed 'grandma', the use of the word 'traditional', a needless reference to a 'home' that doesn't exist and one could wonder, how many sponge cakes aren't made with eggs? Stripped of all the meaningless words, it's simply just 'cake'.

I usually don't queue for these things and assuming that I'm interested, will wait for the maddening crowd to die down before bothering. But we stumbled upon a relatively short queue today and decided to try.

It's not bad fresh off the oven. I was expecting this cheese flavoured version to be a little cheesier but oh well. I wouldn't mind if I didn't have to queue for them.

Inle Myanmar Restaurant, Peninsular Plaza

This is a rare venture for me if you've noticed. I haven't had so much experience nor opportunity with Burmese food with the exception of those cooked by a friend and an experience with some fried rodent from a helper once. The latter is another story for another space and time. We've seen Inle (#B1-07A Peninsula Plaza, 111 North Bridge Rd, tel : +65 6333 5438) for ages and have never thought to try. Until today.

Guess what?  It's not too bad. I could pick on little things like preferring a stronger flavour and more ingredients for the lephet rice but I still liked it enough to finish it happily along with the pickled tea soup with coriander that had been boiled to death. True story. Maybe a bit more fish sauce for delicious saltiness would be nice.

Quite liked their ohn no khao swe (spelling varies and it's a Burmese curry chicken noodle for simplicity) too. The broth has a richness that bears some similarity with our local laksa or the Thai khao soi. Somewhat lemak, a little tangy and more sliced red onions would have made it better. This was different from the home made one I had before though so I guess there are variations to how they're cooked.