Spuds and chicken of the sea

Made with ingredients that we had around in the house. A couple of Russets, Ayam Brand tuna, butter, pepper, salt and roughly chopped spring onions. Simply and tasty.

A breakfast of bread, eggs and cheese. And ham.

So good. Bread pan fried in butter so that it was a little toasty and browned, shaven ham, President plastic wrapped sliced cheddar and scrambled eggs. Salt and pepper.

More food from Kok Sen Restaurant

Tried more food from Kok Sen. So that we could get a better sensing of the quality and style of their food.

I miss good mui fan. By good, I meant the kind that I used to eat as a kid. Something with decent to good quality ingredients and without excessive starch in the gravy. The closest I've come to one in recent times was at Hillman Restaurant. I had imagined this one from Kok Sen to be similar. It wasn't. 

What I didn't expect was the rice that they had used. It was fried rice instead of white rice. Like the 福建炒饭 from Tian Tian Seafood. There was more aroma because of that. The portion was huge.

This was their big prawn hor fun. Egg drop gravy with the prawns was packed separately from the hor fun. More than half of the social media food porn from Kok Sen featured this. I was hoping that the flavour justified the hype. It didn't. 

Not for me. The gravy was a little crustacean-y with sweetness from onions and some sort of sambal. Gravy that became watery after a while. It was not bad tasting but I wouldn't get it again. 

Fruits

Red kiwi and apples. Kiwis were a balance of tart and sweet.

That a bandwich, a surger or just something in betwixt?

We've noticed the pre-made hamburger patties that are sold at Culina in Fairprice Finest for some time and have wondered. We got past wondering this time round and decided to get a couple to try sizzling up some burgers for ourselves. 

Nothing fancy. Just some salt, pepper with melted cheese in some Gardenia wholemeal bread which we already had. The objective was to taste those patties and see if we liked them.

The mince was a little too fine. Not gritty and "masculine" if you catch my drift. The texture ended up with a mouthfeel more akin to sausages rather than a beef patty. In fact, there are many sausages out there with a coarser grind. The other reason why this didn't work out was also the lack of fat in the mix. Not much flavour. 

Now we know where not to get beef patties.

500g lechon from Lechon Republic

This was a spontaneous decision. We enjoyed the "porcinity" from Lechon Republic that we ordered from them again. 500 grams of their roasted pork this time round and sisig to go with rice.