Home delivery from Dian Xiao Er

These days gives us little choice but to explore food delivery options. These are a bunch of stuff from Dian Xiao Er which I have mixed feelings over. Not everything was as good as I had imagined.

The duck for one was disappointing. Roasted ducks were their signature item. They are normally not bad when we eat in at the restaurant. For whatever reasons, the meat was tougher than I remember it. I don't know if it's because of the delivery time or simply lowered cooking standards. Wouldn't order it again for home delivery. 

That's the kailan stir fried with with salted fish and lime. Not enough salted fish. A bit more lime would have been nicer. The colour of the vegetable looked a bit faded. As a stir fried kailan dish, this was mediocre.

Seafood tofu was not bad though. The broccoli looked much healthier than the kailan.

The pleasant surprise was their dish of chicken and black fungus in Chinese wine. This was delicious. Gravy was awesome with rice. Every few mouthfuls had a surprise sweetness from the bits of red dates in the dish.

Home delivery food from Brotzeit Go

I ended up trying what Brotzeit Go has for the current "circuit breaker" season because I stumbled upon their advertisement by chance and saw that there's a bunch of stuff they didn't have previously. Perhaps these were designed for easy takeaway consumption since it was mostly their burgers and fladen. In fact, the only food item that wasn't those was their pork knuckle.

There was a pork knuckle fladen. It's not bad. Caramelized onions, cheese and a drizzle of sweet balsamic vinegar to cut through the fat. Came with a nice beery sauce. If there was anything I didn't really like about it, it'd be that this might have been better if you ate at the restaurant so that the fat from the knuckle was warmer, softer and the rind would be more crisp rather than hard.

Tried a porky cheeseburger because it was a pork burger - something a lot less common than it sounded. Patty was pretty salty, dry and mostly flavoured with rosemary. Bread added to the dryness. Good thing there was the sauce from the fladen.

A take away from 328 Katong Laksa

This didn't taste very different from eating in. Which was kinda nice. The noodles and the ingredients were still blanched in and drained of their laksa gravy before they're packed. The rest of the laksa gravy was packed separately from the rest of the bowl so one got pretty much the same soak time for the noodles.

Kay Lee Roast delivery

Same order as what I ate when I first tried Kay Lee some years ago. Char siew and roasted duck rice. This was from the outlet at Bukit Merah View. I specified breast meat for the duck hoping that I wouldn't get any bones but there were still bones in it. That simply meant the stall didn't give a shit.

It's not pretty looking but I suppose in times like this, presentation and its preservation isn't the point. Didn't taste that great too. If I had to pick a reason why I didn't enjoy it much, it would be because of the char siew which didn't taste like how I remembered it. The caramelized flavour wasn't there. Definitely not as good as the first time which isn't acceptable for Kay Lee.

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.