Omakase X Impossible™ Burger

Unpossible! We were actually enjoying this!

Well just in case you didn't know, Impossible Foods from California is working with a bunch of food places in Singapore as a collaboration of sorts to introduce their plant based patty - Impossible Burger. Omakase Burger is one of those places. Now that an actual product exists, wouldn't it make more sense to call it the Improbable Burger? I wonder if their entrance into our sunny island had anything to do with the investment from Temasek Holdings last year.

Anyways, don't knock it before you've tried it. These Impossible patties make a mockery of mock meats and I would accept this willingly as a meat substitute if I ever had to substitute my meat. There was a certain, hmmm....mushroomy texture/quality to the meat that made it pretty tasty. It's not a perfect replica but a pretty good one. I could pick pork tallow fries to go with that Omakase X Impossible burger set - though those fries didn't taste especially porky. I've always thought they should do better for what they charged. Carl's Jr makes better fries than these.

Beef marmalade cheese burger from MeatSmith

The reason why I ordered this was because I never had the drive to get another table at Burnt Ends and never got to understand what was that beef marmalade that people were talking about. Since Meat Smith had it with their cheese burger on menu, why not?

I think I understood what the burger was trying to be. What worked was that there were sufficient pickles to cut through the sweetness of the marmalade, just pulled beef and onions as far as I could tell, and the greasy richness from the caramelized crusty beef and cheese. 

Triggered the same emote as the Smokin' Daddy from Three Buns at the Savour Christmas 2016 event. I didn't dislike it in principle but there was a bit too much going on for me where the flavours were messy rather than clean. Wouldn't be something I could go back to.

Char siew from Duck Master

This was the same thing that I had gotten previously except that I've asked for additional char siew and the vegetable side of late has changed from the Szechuan-esque black fungus/sliced potatoes to achar. Needs more peanuts that one. Anyway, the reason why I decided to add the char siew was because it looked good on the display with the char and all. It even looked pretty good sliced up. But the flavour wasn't quite there, the meat was dry and a little hard. In spite of all that caramelization, it didn't taste that charred. At least now I know.

Boon Tong Kee Kway Chap Braised Duck (文通記), Zion Riverside Food Centre

Got us a platter of braised duck, pig's skin, pig intestines, pork belly and tau kwa from Boon Tong Kee Kway Chap (Stall 24, 70 Zion Road). Not to be confused with the chicken rice guys. Everything was pretty good. Loved their tangy garlic chilli sauce that made a good dip for everything we ordered.

Eeggggs!

And some smooth slurpy kway in a a herbal broth. It's not kway chap without the kway right?

Re-revisiting Dancing Fish Signature

Dancing Fish Signature has yet to disappoint in the visits we've made. Their sambal and sauces have altogether made this a very dangerous place.

We just discovered that there's home made barley with lime on the menu that's free flow.

One of the kickass items we had from this visit was their belimbing (starfruit) salad. The fruit was chilled and refreshing, invigorated by a spicy tangy sambal and punctuated by the sharpness of raw onions with the aromatic crunch of the crispy flat fish.

Their tahu tempeh goreng was better than I had imagined. The tempeh tasted refined. Both that and the tofu were addictive with their sauce of kecap manis with sambal belachan.

Grilled duck was also pretty good. The meat was quite tender encased in its skin that been layered with their caramelized basting sauce. We had this with the sambal matah option because that sambal was awesome with their steamed rice.

Another go at their gulai pucuk paku. Gotta try the stir fried version the next time. 

Ali Fatimah Food Stall, Redhill Food Centre

Man, this prata stall (#01-28 Redhill Food Centre, 85 Redhill Lane) was good. Another queue that I understood. I liked how the kosong was light and fluffy going for a mere 80 cents. The one with egg, onion and cheese was kinda expensive considering their prices but it sure was also delicious with the melted sliced cheese and fragrant softened onions. Very tasty with sugar or the curry or even both! Definitely gonna come back again.