A chilli crab 'O from Old Chang Kee

Here's a chilli crab 'O from Old Chang Kee. I'm not exactly one of the bigger fans of chilli crab out there so I'm definitely not an expert on their flavours. I don't recall the last time I've had those things. But I do remember how they tasted like so I guess I could venture an opinion that these puffs do taste like chilli crab. I guess it's just the gravy and a little of the minced crab meat mixed into the potatoes. Good enough as a curiosity I suppose.

More Zion Riverside Food Centre-ing

More dinnering at Zion Riverside. I grabbed a half spring chicken with rice from Seng Huat Western Food. Chicken was kinda dried out from the deep fry but otherwise I hadn't any complains. I also much preferred their beef burger with rice.

We got ourselves a bit of satay supplement as well from Chong Pang 1 Chicken Wing & Satay. Yes, these guys do barbequed chicken wings and satay. I've heard people mention that the satay aren't the best in town. Seriously, what the fuck does "best in town" even mean? These aren't bad at all in my opinion and I certainly won't let the "best" get in my way of enjoying them.

I guess it's finally settled that this stall is known as Fresh Taste Big Prawn noodles. They're also a new inclusion to this year's Bib Gourmand. The soup's still good but I think I've outgrown their big prawns so I'll order the cheaper bowls in the future. 

Getting Lucky

It seems that New Lucky Claypot Rice have gotten themselves into the Bib Gourmand List of our 2018 Michelin Guide. I've always imagined that getting listed is a luck of the draw. To be sifted out systematically requires two important and very improbable variables. Categorization and coverage. Does categorization even exist for a sub genre like this? I'm pretty sure it doesn't. And we're all pretty damn sure that the inspectors haven't tried even an eighth of all claypot rice around to determine that this makes Bib Gourmand and the others don't. No?  Tell me that's not just Lady Luck smiling.

Since this entry has been written, I might as well inject a little more verbosity. About how one could eat claypot rice. We normally remove the ingredients onto a separate plate as a first step before drizzling the dark soy sauce and oil into the rice. I've personally known someone who hadn't done that before the mixing and accidentally had a piece of hot chicken fly into their face. True story. So I guess this particular method has been vindicated. Haha!

By the way, I've just noticed that there's actually waxed pork belly that they've added as part of the ingredients. Never realized that those were available.

So the next involves getting the dark soy sauce and oil into the rice and mixing them up. I feel it's optional to have the rest of the toppings back again into the rice for a second round of tossing since it helps coat them with the dark soy sauce and also to distribute the bits of salted fish around. Still not a fan of "soccarat".

O Mamma Mia, Clementi Mall

I've been holding back from visiting this pizza shop (#01-11 The Clementi Mall, 3155 Commonwealth Avenue West) which originated from Spain for a while. But since I needed to be in the vicinity, I thought I could give them a go.

To begin, the toppings of their pizza were pretty thin. I would have enjoyed them more if they had been more generous with the ingredients but I suppose all the money had to go to better things like the rental for the location with such footfall. Pity cos I kinda liked the one with mushroom, egg and ham. The pizza also had a crust that didn't taste anything like the pizza al taglio it might have resembled. Not even close to the defunct Pizza da Donato. I didn't dislike them but I'm not keen on coming back.

I was initially surprised by how their ravioli was swimming in oil from the pesto. In the end, it didn't taste too bad. Just fish them out from all the oil.

Roasted pork and char siew from Soon Heng

Just a quick update with this roasted pork and char siew combo plate from Soon Heng. I asked for fattier char siew today which the stall mentioned is available only on request since they actually had people complaining about the fat. This was better than the first round. If you asked me, I like the char siew more than the roasted pork which seemed to have some really hard bits in the crackling.

A lamb chops with rice lunch from Renga-ya

Renga-ya has some pretty decent looking lunch sets. The one in particular that caught our eye was the set with lamb chops - something which we have had previously and thought they did a pretty good job of. No reason for us to think this wouldn't be as good since it costed the same.

A salad came with the lunch. Crisp leaves with some perky goma dressing and some hijiki.

The lamb chops were as good. Tender, medium doneness and nothing on but pepper and salt. Awesome with rice. I neglected to mention previously that the accompanying black pepper sauce was delicious as well. Sweet, spicy and savoury in a creamy consistency. Reminded me of the one from Wooloomooloo Steakhouse. What was subpar were those accompanying asparaguses that were too fibrous.

Yes, it's that strawberry snow again. Because it was nice.