Chargrilled chunky prawn sandwich and flourless orange cake from PS. Cafe

I wouldn't say that it was their prawn noodles that encouraged me to try this chargrilled prawn sandwich but the description sounded like it might be good. In retrospect, it wasn't bad. Some of the grill on the sourdough should have been transferred to that prawn patty inside. What I didn't like were the bits of coriander in the prawn patty. It was never mentioned that there was coriander.

We ordered the flourless orange cake because we were curious how a flourless one would taste like. I was secretly hoping that it would pack the citrusy zest similar to the lemon cake we had from the defunct Lollapalooza. It didn't. But this wasn't half bad. The brown sauce was bitter caramel and there were enough orange rinds on the cake that it tasted almost like a marmalade. I don't mind eating this again.

The kamo abura soba from Tsuta revisited

I came back for their kamo abura soba because I remembered liking them. I'm not sure if I had missed out the options previously but it didn't seem like there were any for this particular noodles for more toppings. Anyways, this was still as delicious as I remembered it.

Re-revisiting Mustard on 初二

It used to be the case where we avoided Chinese food during the Chinese New Year because the restaurants are closed during the period but it doesn't seem to be the case nowadays. But old habits do die harder. It's a good excuse to head back down to Mustard anyway.

Today we ordered their saag gosht. That's right, it's not palak paneer there. We enjoyed it. However there was indeed a difference in the quality between this and the one we previously had at Punjab Grill which I felt was superior; because I could associate that lamb with words like smooth, moist and plump. This one wasn't as smooth, wasn't so moist and didn't feel plump. Now I'm more keenly aware of what I paid for.

We tried their mahi tikka and it turned out to be a good choice. The tender pieces of fish were tangy and smoky from the marinate. Good for returns.

What I had looking forward to was their Bengali prawn in coconut curry dish - or also known as chingri maacher malai. The creamy and rich cardamom/cinnamon/clove infused curry left an impression the first time I was here. Today was a moment reliving that experience. Still delicious. Today's prawns had much better texture than the last time. 

That's the churi naan, which according to the menu is layered and has coconut. This was sweet. Quite nice. For some reasons, it worked with both the saag and the chingri maacher malai.

Delicious curries begged to be paired with rice. We thought the buttery jeera basmati rice made good pairing

Definitely looking forward to the next time.

Kotteri Se Abura ramen from Sanpoutei

I hadn't noticed that Sanpoutei (#01-01 253 Holland Ave, tel : +65 463 7277) had se abura ramen on their menu until recently so I decided to try them out to see if they were similar to to the one from Ajisai. While the bowl here also featured a porky broth with bits of fat/meat, I could taste shoyu which I didn't get from Ajisai. I thought what made this a little better were the chopped onions which added a contrasting sharpness to the rest of the broth which without would have become monotonous after a while.

Don Lechon, Guillemard Road

I heard about this shop (#01-52 Grandlink Square, 511 Guillemard Road, tel : +65 9778 9737) a while ago and have been wanting to check them out. The dish that had which piqued my interest was their bopis which I hadn't seen available elsewhere. Lechon is....well, not so uncommon these days. Anyway, they were out of bopis which was a little disappointing because we came out of the way for this. Their lechon was pretty tasty, tender and had a good crisp going at the right parts. The order took really long though. We waited about 45 minutes just for these.

Hai Kee Brothers, Chinatown Point

Hai Kee Brothers (#02-39 Chinatown Point, 133 New Bridge Road) have been around since the 50s but I was not aware of them until recently when they've opened this new shop. From what I've gathered, one of the things they're known for were their soy sauce chicken. Just like Chew Kee and Chiew Kee just across the road along Upper Cross Street.

I liked their meats. Soy sauce chicken was tender with a properly marinated flavourful skin while char siew was sweet and tasty. I had been imagining that those char siew would be more thickly sliced though. Liked the crisp from their roasted pork belly as well. This meat platter tasted much better than it looked.

The menu described this as chicken liver rice rolls. I thought it was chicken livers stuffed in rice rolls but they appeared to be just tossed together. They were okay.

The only seafood that was in their laksa seafood fried rice were three shrimps. It's not bad. I would have preferred a stronger laksa flavour and perhaps also with laksa leaves but it wasn't a bad fried rice.