Market Grilled @ home

Market Grill has some new items on their menu. Lure was cast on social media and I took the bait. Heh heh. While I maintain that their food would probably be more enjoyable eaten at the restaurant, they did survive delivery pretty well. Well, most of it anyway.

Jambalaya's new on the menu. Seeing it reminded me of the etouffee from the defunct One Night Only. No they tasted different. If my memory serves, the gravy from the etouffee packed more of the crustacean punch compared to the rice here. Not that this one didn't have any. Loved the smokiness from the bacon that got into every bite of those tiger prawns. Pretty sure it would have tasted better straight from the kitchen.

Lamb shoulder didn't survive well. Meat was drying up and badly needed salt. The spice was not well distributed so some bites tasted more potent than the others. But I'm mostly disappointed by the lack of salt. 

Prawn roll was also new on menu. Liked the chunky sliced up tiger prawns in the toasted & buttered brioche. Odd thing - I tasted quite a bit of dill in there but couldn't see any at all. In any case, I enjoyed the unexpected heartiness from this. Would definitely get it again.

Charcoal grilled bak kwa fried rice from Din Tai Fung (鼎泰豐)

Just came across this bak kwa fried rice from Din Tai Fung while browsing food delivery recently. I wonder how different this was from the "packaged from a central kitchen" boxes that are sold at Toast Box. DTF's fried rice is at a level where eating at the restaurant and having them through delivery is a different experience. It's obviously better at the restaurant and today's portion are a bit more greasy than I'm used to.

I would have given this a thumbs up if there were more bak kwa in the fried rice. Also, calling those bak kwa 'charcoal grilled' on the menu raises expectations. In my opinion, those expectations fell a little short.

Blue Ginger-ing @ home

Blue Ginger-ing at home from GrabFood. Their food was a little less expensive and felt a little bit more down to earth than Candlenut. But, I suppose I haven't eaten enough from the latter to make a proper comparison.

Achar. Would have benefitted with more peanuts like what I've previously mentioned. I would have liked them to be pickled for a little longer for more punch. These didn't make me want to eat as much rice as I did back then so maybe something is different here.

Pretty decent babi pongtay. The flavour was sufficient but I thought lacked a little intensity. Which in no way meant that it wasn't rich tasting in the first place. Not as pretty looking as the one from Godmama though.

Sambal udang petai - puny portions for $28. Did not represent good value for money at all. Even though the sambal was nutty, a little shrimpy and moreish on rice with those petai which they had too little of.

This kangkong lemak would really be improved by more generosity with the lemak gravy.

A breakfast of bread, eggs and cheese

Genuine Bavarian organic sunflower seed rye with eggs. Blue cheese with Raboso wine which I might have gotten from Marketplace. Had grapes/raisins on them. The blue's nice with the eggs and bread. Slight tang, pungent, characteristically salty with a little sweet even. Forgot what's the other one. Might have been Comte from Cheese Ark.

Cold ramen from Tampopo

I've eaten a cold ramen from Tampopo years ago. This one is a bit different. No kurobuta ham and no mustard. Looked a lot less impressive and truth to be told, the experience was not even on par with the ones from Baikohken or even Ohsho. Serviceable but definitely not getting them again. Chilled food doesn't survive delivery well.

Atout at home - lobster bisque, frog legs, cod liver and pork rillettes

A lunch delivery from Atout.

Which consisted of their delicious lobster bisque. It seems that there're no dumplings in them anymore.

Also those cod livers that we liked. Great with bread.

And some of the pork rillette that the restaurant makes.....

.......which were good munching with bread like those cod livers. Freshly made baguettes and sourdough loaf.

We got some frog legs too. Nice and garlicky.