Le Bon Funk, Club Street

Came across this place on social media so we decided to see if the food was good. It's apparently run by a chef-owner Keirin Buck who was previously from Burnt Ends. And I suppose it was also obvious that they wanted that connotation.

We were commended a LongTé by Burdock from Canada. A dry fruity/sour brew that had a hoppy funk. Think sour beer that's almost a cider.

That's cedar jelly toast with shaven foie gras. If you're wondering about the shaven foie gras, it's like having cold butter shaven onto bread. By the time they're in your mouth, they'd be soft and creamy and readily melting away. With flavour from the foie. I liked this though I'm wondering about the cedar jelly which I couldn't identify.

There's spicy beef tendon nuggets on the menu.

Not getting the tendons in those nuggets but there were bits of meat and rice inside. Not spectacular in any way.

Their beef tongue sandwich with gribiche was pretty good though. Gribiche as I've just learnt is a French mayo/tartare sauce thing made with hard boiled eggs. The brioche was airy and buttery while those thinly shaven tongue were tender and salty. All in a delicious manner of course. Delicious I suppose was the bare minimum I expected for what they charged.

We got ourselves a ham steak which was also really good. The nicely charred slice of ham was tender and fatty and also  deliciously salty, accompanied by a refreshing side of tomatoes tossed with basil/olive oil/salt. Came with a squeeze bottle of hot sauce which packed a bit of invigorating heat.

Dessert was a mousse-y chocolate cake with crème anglaise and a sprinkle of warm spices. I liked this. There was a bit of salt going on in the cake that kept the flavour interesting. I was tempted to lick the bowl clean at the end.

Double cheese katsu don from Tonkatsu by Ma Maison

This was the current seasonal special from Tonkatsu by Ma Maison. A katsudon where the tonkatsu was stuffed with some stretchy Carciocavallo cheese and topped with cheese sauce. How was it? I thought it was pretty delicious in its own cheesy way. Rich as well and obviously, one wouldn't be getting this if one were not inclined towards cheeses. The little skinned tomato on the side that was unexpectedly sweet.

132 Tiong Bahru Nasi Lemak, Tiong Bahru Food Centre

We came across this stall (#02-56 Tiong Bahru Market, 30 Seng Poh Road) one morning looking for breakfast and thought that the food looked good. True enough it was a pretty competent plate. I supposed that I could just gripe about how the coconut flavours have been lost in the rice of nasi lemak these days. I don't think the state of things are going to change for the better anytime soon so I've kinda learnt to live with that. Still, the ingredients were pretty decent especially those fried "fish" fillet which was fresh from the fryer, crisp and not overly greasy. 

A lemon rice plate from Shree Ganga at Lau Pa Sat

It's been quite a long while since I've last stepped into Lau Pa Sat. Place looked upgraded. So this was one of numerous Indian food stalls (Stall #40 Lau Pa Sat, 18 Raffles Quay) that dot the place. The menu looked like it had a plethora of options but when I tried ordering, there were only a handful of items that were available.

So I settled for some lemon rice and a few of the vegetable dishes. The cauliflower tasted like it was cooked in a tamarind based curry, the long beans were delicious and the third item I had picked according to the proprietor, was banana. Banana that had a texture of sweet potatoes without the sweetness. It was all pretty tasty except for the rice which disappointingly didn't have any lemon flavours.

Hybrid duck mazesoba from Ginza Kamo Soba Kyudaime Keisuke

I remember seeing items from the menu at Ginza Kamo Soba Kyudaime Keisuke that might have been interesting the last time I was here so this kamo mazesoba was one of them. A nice bowl of dry chewy noodles with some tangy orange vinegar on the side that you could add. One even gets a seaweed wrapped molten egg. But I'm still not feeling much of the duck in this joint. Maybe I just need to get their regular bowl. Another time perhaps.

Back at Sri Rajya Lakshmi Narasimhan

This was yet another unsuccessful attempt to get the Andhra meal at Sri Rajya Lakshmi Narasimhan because there was a 40 minute wait. So I ended up with a curd vada and a green bean uttapam/oothappam.

Let's see...I was getting quite a bit of flavour from the mustard seed and peppercorn from the former. Something that hadn't been so prominent in the previous times I've had curd vada. That wasn't a bad thing though. That green bean uttapam was nice. I couldn't say that I could taste the green bean in the pancake, but it was freshly made and that accounted for why it was tasty too. Especially with the coconut chutney and sambar.