The autumn katsu from Tonkatsu by Ma Maison is back

The autumn special featuring kurobuta with mushrooms on daikon oroshi with truffle oil and shiro dashi is back for the season.

Divine Chicken Pot (好滋味鸡公煲), Food Republic @ Wisma Atria

Noticed this stall (#04-02 Wisma Atria, 435 Orchard Road) the last time we were here at this Food Republic and told ourselves we would give them a try the next time. While the name says chicken, they also do some beef and pork for their hot pot. And dishes on the side too. The thing they are known for and what most people order are their spicy hot pots.

This one's chicken with instant noodles. 小辣. Enough heat to make us sweat a little but not overwhelming so that there's annoying burn on the lips and mutes the flavour of everything else. It's not bad. Enjoyed the savoury gravy which were infused with heat from the chillis. The chunks of chicken meat were tender as well. We'll customize the ingredients the next time.

Tsukemen from Keisuke Kani King

It's been a while since the last time. I didn't recall a tsukemen on the menu then but there's one now which is what I came for.

The dipping broth was disappointing. Didn't even pack the punch that their regular thick soup does. Tsukemen broth tends to be thicker than their regular counterparts but this seemed not to be the case.

The regular thick broth was good enough to finish. Good as I remembered it.

Gyozas were okay. These has skins that reminded me of Chinese fried guo tie. Don't mind eating them again.

Black and white and chilli from Heng Heng Cooked Food

When you have difficulty deciding and you're just getting one packet. Chilli was mild, light prickle of heat. From Heng Heng.

Some food from the Hokkaido Dosanko Plaza at Great World

That's the area (#B2-101/107 Great World, 11 Kim Seng Promenade) selling confectionary with an attached food court outside Meidi-Ya at Great World. Not sure if the stall is call Bentoss but they had Japanese curry.

This was not bad. Oysters were creamy and oyster-ly flavoured in a nice way. The crust tasted different from the old curry/katsu shop at Liang Court though so maybe they're not the same guys. Curry appeared to have texture like keema with bits of vegetables and meat. It's sweet, but not annoyingly so.

Got a bowl of tonkotsu from Sapporo Nishiyama at the end of the food court. The charshu was not bad, ajitama was decent and even the curly noodles were fine. What didn't work for me was their tonkotsu broth which had a sweetness that I didn't like. What's worse, they added ginger paste. I'm not discounting them yet as I've spied some gokai noko bowls that they have. May try them the next time.

Lao Ren Jia Roasted (老人家燒臘), Chinatown Food Centre

We happened by this stall (#02-003 Chinatown Food Centre, 335 Smith Street) the last time we were around. It was the name that caught our attention. So we ordered their soya sauce chicken thigh (鸡尾) and char siew on rice.

Not bad. The thigh meat was slurp off the bone tender. Flavour from the soya sauce on the skin was savoury without the sweetness that Hawker Chan has. Not a bad thing, just different. I added char siew because it was intrigued by their redness and the lack of char. And that it looked like it was all belly meat. It's not bad too. Just doesn't have the char that added a level of smokiness.

Rice was lightly flavoured but sufficient to the point I could eat them on their own. Chilli was slightly ginger-y but also had quite a bit of lime.