One Prawn Noodle (一號蝦麵), Golden Mile Food Centre

My interest in One Prawn Noodle (#01-93 Golden Mile Food Centre, 505 Beach Road) was piqued by the same reason as everyone else - the owner chef Gwyneth Ang was formerly from Burnt Ends. Morbid trivia - prawn noodles would be her choice of a death row meal.

I've heard from people whom have tried, saying that their broth was too sweet. I'm not sure what has changed since the time they've had theirs and I have had mine but I didn't think that. Sure it leaned a bit more towards crustacean sweetness than savoury/salty but I didn't think it was excessive. Prawn balls weren't as prawn-y as they were peppery. Odd. That single prawn tasted fresh and sweet. Only one prawn though so I guess the name of the stall meant something. Heh!

But altogether a pretty enjoyable bowl. Wouldn't mind another the next time.

The breakfast before breakfast

These Digestive biscuits tasted a little too wholemeal-y. Don't remember them tasting like that in the past.

Venison, beef tartare and more berried double Gruyere cream meringue at Coucou

This was our second visit to Coucou. Bar counter seats tonight - it was very much more crowded compared to the first time we ate there.

Got their curly salad again because we liked them from the last time. It's the dressing.

There was a nicely done butternut pumpkin soup with Gruyère and walnuts. Creamy, sweet and piping hot.

Coucou has a beef tartare with Sbrinz cheese. From what I gather, Sbrinz is similar tasting to Parmigiano Reggiano. Couldn't taste it in the tartare so I didn't get the point at all. The flavours in the tartare were also much milder compared to the French renditions we've had. There were also some silver skin in the meat. Not something we would order again.

The most enjoyable thing from this order were the skin on fries. Those were good.

Venison was on menu for this month's special. Though the menu mentioned striploin, it tasted like a tenderloin/filet. Was accompanied by some sweet carrots, Brussels sprouts and chestnuts on the side. Pretty expensive for the portions. 

While the venison could have improved from better crusting, they did manage to get enough browning on the outside for the caramelized flavour of the meat flavour to get through. Was delicious with the cranberry sauce. Market Grill's rendition was better but I enjoyed this also.

Fell back on their meringue with double Gruyère cream and berries for dessert. This was so good.

Ali Corner, Tiong Bahru Food Centre

We noticed this stall (#02-17 Tiong Bahru Food Centre, 30 Seng Poh Road) and their ayam penyet from our previous visits and decided give them a try because it looked good. 

It looked much better than it tasted. Rice was plain, not chicken rice. Meat from the chicken was a little dry. No refrying was done so the batter didn't have a good crunch. They also didn't look like they had applied enough force smashing the chicken. Sambal's okay. Project Penyek was a better quality plate of nasi ayam penyet if you asked me. 

Cheese soba minus tomato sauce from Healthy Soba IKI

So I mentioned previously about wanting to have the cheese soba again sans the tomato sauce. Turns out that it was also the tomato sauce that gave the noodles the truffle flavour. But I knew what I was getting into and I still enjoyed this. Freshly grated cheese, ground black pepper and olive oil. I also swapped out my usual shirasu avocado don with the kaisen one for a change.

Original Tiong Bahru Golden Pig & Roasted, Tiong Bahru Food Centre

Skipped the preferred 烧腊 stall to give Original Tiong Bahru Golden Pig & Roasted (#02-67 Tiong Bahru Food Centre, 30 Seng Poh Road) a try. This one looked like has been around. They're two stall units worth of space. They could be good. Or I could be wrong.

Ordered fatty char siew and roasted pork rice. No gravy. Just dark soya sauce. Not impressed. While I admit that specialists like Roast Paradise might have ruined most of the other fatty char siew for me, this was just uninspiring with insufficient caramelization and the cold-ish meat. Roasted pork had crispy crackling but meat was dry. Tangy chilli was interesting though but it's not going to be enough to get me coming back.