It's back

It had been a thing when McD closed for a while. It is apparently a thing now that they've re-opened. For reasons.

Home delivery from Sawadee Thai

Oddled Sawadee Thai. They're a little pricey but the food has always been very decent.

We ordered mostly what we've eaten from the restaurant before - like the roasted duck red curry which looked a lot prettier in the restaurant. Those warm lychees in the curry were still awesome.

Liked their tom kha gai. Still like it. Gotta remember to tell them lay off the coriander the next time. How could I have forgotten that?!

Had them stuffed fat chicken wings.

This was the only dish we've never tried before - seasonal vegetables with Hokkaido scallops it said on the menu. Was that napa cabbage? Scallops were tender and still had a little sweetness in them but I can't tell that they're from Hokkaido. Can anyone?

Their sweet steamed tapioca was tasty enough that we still had room for them after the meal. As good as I remembered them.

A bánh mì from O Banh Mi

I may have had a bánh mì from O Banh Mi prior to this but I'm not sure. Anyways, this was their pork chop bánh mì. Upsized. I don't have much references to what could be considered good ones but I though more vegetables would be nice. Those pickles were the only vegetables that were in the sandwich. Since I got this to go, I added sliced cheese and sprinkles of Tabasco to spruce up the flavour. Noice!

Ordering from New Ubin Seafood

The "circuit breaker" has allowed us me to experience first hand what food works for delivery and what doesn't work as well. Even though we've I've had our my own ideas on how different types of cooking take to delivery.

This was cze char lunch from New Ubin Seafood - we haven't eaten from them since their old days back in Sin Min.

Their crispy pork jowl wasn't so crispy after sweating through delivery in their plastic containers, but I suspect this isn't really crispy even if you had them freshly cooked. Crisp exterior yes, but I don't think they were meant to be crispy as much as meaty. It's pork jowl after all. 

Note to self : the miso gula Melaka sauce that came with the jowl was really good.

Between this and our recent episode with Hajah Maimunah, it was more fish roe than I normally eat in an average month. The sambal chinchalok gravy did look different from the last time we've had this dish. Dryer and more orange looking. It was still delicious. Wished there were more of that gravy and petai to go with the rice though.

Some baby kailan stir fried with garlic for our vegetable intake.

Cze char in generally survives food delivery pretty well.

Candlenut

Does a one Michelin Star meal still count if it was had through home delivery and not the restaurant? I don't know. This was our first experience with Candlenut - what many locals term as contemporary/refined atas Peranakan food. It is also the only Michelin starred Peranakan food in the world. 

Been wanting to try them for a while. Between the COMO Dempsey delivery platform and GrabFood, the difference in the total price inclusive of delivery was about 4 cents. Every dish with the exception of the rice costed the same - a little over $23 if it's from GrabFood and $20 from COMO Dempsey. The latter charged more for delivery so the ended up being equally expensive. 

I was curious about their Snake River Farm kurobuta neck satay. Charcoal grilled and glazed with kecap manis. Sweet like how I expected but not getting much from the grill. Maybe these were another one of those things that didn't take to delivery well. I didn't dislike it, but I wouldn't order them again.

Chap chye was chap chye. It was okay with a nice shrimpy sweetness. Vegetables were reasonably tender. Neither the best or the worst I've had. But - it was the most expensive one I've ever eaten.

The portions for their pong tauhu soup was tiny. On hindsight, it was sufficient. The broth packed a serious load of crustacean flavour infused with garlic. Loved the coarse texture of the meatballs with chunky bits of prawn. Nice.

What I enjoyed the most from the bunch of items we ordered was their blue swimmer crab curry. The menu mentioned turmeric, galangal and kaffir lime leaf. I thought I tasted a bit of lemongrass. The curry was pleasantly fruity and creamy. Very nice.

Dalgona Bananarama

I'm late to the Dalgona coffee game but I've had one at home recently with its ante upped with fork hand pureed banana. Here's the part where I mention the nostalgia stemming from the Banana Spin that I used to get from Spinelli. Man this was good!