Roast Paradise, Old Airport Road Food Centre

Wow, this was nice! I've been curious for quite a while now about what Roast Paradise (#01-121 Old Airport Road Food Centre, 51 Old Airport Road) has been doing for their meats and now I'm impressed. Tender layers of moist fatty pork supplemented by crispy cracking for the roasted pork (烧肉) and a shell of sweet caramelized surface for the char siew (叉烧). This was one queue I understood.

The stall has something called Hakka mee which I haven't seen or had from other roast meat stalls. Mee pok with minced pork, their concoction of fatty/greasy sauces and chilli paste which made a delicious bowl of smoky savoury noodles.

Li Li Kway Chap Braised Duck Pig's Stomach Soup, Tiong Bahru Food Centre

This (#02-28 Tiong Bahru Food Centre, 30 Seng Poh Road) was one of the stalls that was still open later in the evening when most of the rest had closed for the day. While my initial intention was to get kuey chap, I ended up being distracted by their pig intestine noodles. 

I enjoyed it. No alkaline taste in those yellow noodles. The braised intestines were firm and tasty, infused with the flavour of their braising sauce. The dollop of chilli paste added an appreciated warmth to their gravy. I'll be back another day to try something else.

Another annual ritual at Lawry's

This year's prime rib Lawry's came a little late. But - as how it is often heard, better late than never, yes? It's been a while since I didn't get one without the bone though. Honestly, I cannot discern enough of a difference in my meat to care. It's all good.

CB & J from Sarnies

It's been some time since we were at Sarnies during breakfast hours. Quite a very long while actually. Meanwhile, they seem to have come up with some menu exchange thingy with their sister branch in Bangkok which introduced this CB & J on their menu. Abbreviated cashew butter & jelly if one were to surmise from the ingredients. A nod to at peanut butter & jelly which is just a variant. 

Done their way of course. Brioche topped with their house made cashew butter and roasted grapes. There's some pyramid sea salt and honey that lent sporadic crunch with sweet and salty into the creamy nuttiness and grape citrus. Quite impressed that with all the ingredients in a mouthful, it did taste like pb & j. With thyme. I enjoyed this.

Revisiting Ah Chiang's Porridge

Unknowingly, I ended up ordering the same porridge as I did the last round. The one with century eggs and mixed pork with offal. It was only after I had gotten my bowl that I realized that. That time, I had thought that the ingredients were measly but it didn't seem to be so today. Note to self : get the meatball one the next time.

Obligatory greens of stir fried watercress with garlic. The flavour of their garlic stir fry was pretty good. But I prefer the texture of the kailan to these which were more fibrous.

Dirty Buns, Sprout Hub

Read about these guys (Sprout Hub, 102 Henderson Road) online. They're located at the canteen area of Sprout Hub in the stall with the same signage as o-kome.

Pretty well lit and spacious canteen.

Dirty Buns has a tie guan ying kombucha on the menu (the drink by the way is from Pyroast next door). I have been convinced that it doesn't matter what tea is used for kombucha. You'll never be able to tell. It tasted like.....kombucha.

Here's a double burger from them. The cheese looked weak.

Patties are kinda small as you can see. Meat's okay tasting, not exceptional. Nothing that would get me coming back. Don't understand why they need to do so much sauce if not to hide the fact that there isn't much flavour coming from the beef. But at least it wasn't over marinated.

There's a spicy fried chicken burger. Not very spicy. That fried chicken has got nothing on McSpicy. Don't know what's that white goo in there. Didn't taste like yoghurt or mayo but there's way too much of it in that burger. An obvious sign of amateurs at work.