Home delivery zi char from Sin Hoi Sai

First time getting delivery from Sin Hoi Sai. They were pretty expensive. Almost $72 for four dishes and two portions of rice. But we hadn't eaten from them for a while and not being able to eat out triggers sporadic random cravings. Got some of the items we liked.

Like their fried prawns which were nice with their sambal belachan.

Missed those prawn paste chicken which were good with and without their sambal belachan. These were still crisp when we got them and some of the pieces were dripping with juices.

This tofu dish has always been excellent pairing with rice. Tofu was tender.

One of the nice sambal petai out there which we usually unsuccessfully try not to order when we eat there. Gotta do this. I meant, did this!

The sambal petai and minced meat tofu with salted fish were delicious with rice. These were stuff that we were never gonna attempt to cook at home.

Shrimp Cheeks from Bread Society

I got these shrimp cheeks out of curiosity some weeks back because they were essentially crispy shrimp heads. Naturally, my brain associated them with the flavour of head fat which = tasty. But it wasn't like that. Shrimp cheek flavour != head fat flavour. These tasted not very different from regular prawn crackers despite them being actual fried shrimp heads.

Home made sandwich - ham, cheese, omelette and butterhead

Since we cannot eat out anymore, I suppose there's something also to look at while eating in. Home made sandwiches. Fried omelette with buttered butterhead, President sliced Cheddar and ham. I could tell you how delicious the salty cheese and ham was with the piping hot omelette between lightly crisped toast but that would be pointless wouldn't it? 

A take away from Pizza Hut

Covid 19 has made adjustments to our....well, lives/habits. I know of one change amongst numerous it has made in mine. It had gotten me to get something from Pizza Hut again. Which I have not done in years. Why? I suppose the main draw was the 50% discount that they were giving for takeaway.

That above was their Meat Galore. I personally feel that "galore" isn't descriptively accurate. Usually $35.90 - which I think is wayyyy overpriced. Now for $17.95 which is cheaper than the $20 pies that Pezzo is doing at this point of time but I feel Pezzo has more generous toppings.

Take out from Margaret Drive Chicken Rice

I know I've mentioned previously that Margaret Drive Chicken Rice tasted much like the old-er Sin Kee. After this take out, I've more thoughts. The rice wasn't as good as Sin Kee after all. The texture was similar, it was light and flavoured without being too heavy and all but - the flavour wasn't as deep. I don't know if this is a one off since it's only the second time we've gotten their chicken rice.

Luke's before dining out is out

This was the first dinner we've had at Luke's in town. The other time we've ever had dinner was at their first restaurant at Gemmill Lane.

Seems like the coarse salt flakes are gone for good. Just like their poppyseed buns. The Bloody Mary is still as delicious though.

Corn bread are still good.

Haven't had their clam chowder for a while. Tasted also as good as the first time we've had it back in 2011.

Got their USDA ribeye medium rare done "Luau" style. There was a sweet glaze that was similar to char siew on the surface of the nicely charred steak. A first sweet and savoury steak for us. Can't say we didn't enjoy it.

We had their Dutch veal chop. Very tender. Not as much flavour as I had imagined from the anchovy Marmite butter though even though the name strongly suggested otherwise.

Luke's refreshing kale salad is always welcomed as a side.

Had their old style hash brown on the side. Crisp and buttery. There's Boursin cheese in it that made it richer than just an ordinary buttery hash brown.