Coffee Break, Amoy Street Food Centre

I remember seeing this stall (#02-78 Amoy Street Food Centre, 7 Maxwell Road) closed every single time during the weekends that I've been to Amoy Food Centre so I did not expect to stumbled upon them doing business over the past weekend. Decided to get some of their toast and coffee. 

The toast I had was suppose to have cinnamon sugar and butter. Could barely taste the butter. Even chains like Ya Kun and Toast Box have toasts that would blow this out of the water. Wouldn't get it again. 

Tried their masala coffee. Their masala mix had a fiery kick. Nice but there were a couple of things that bothered me. There was an odd bitterness which didn't taste like it came from the coffee. The other was that while I knew it was coffee, I'm not tasting much of it. 

Moosehead, Telok Ayer Street

Moosehead (110 Telok Ayer Street, tel : +65 6636 8055) has been in business for a number of years. It's another one of those places I've been meaning to check out and for reasons, it's never happened. Until now. Better late than never they say.

These are dates wrapped with bacon topped with aioli. And pine nuts. Nice munching with the smoky saltiness from the bacon and sweet from the dates.

That's their pulled pork sandwich. Menu mentioned coleslaw but I didn't get any. Added a sunny side up which in my opinion improved the sandwich. Bun was pillowy and the fillings of pulled pork in BBW sauce were piping hot.

Pistachio cake. Not bad. Topped with crushed pistachios, yuzu creme and drizzled with honey. I liked the crumbly texture. Maybe I could ask them to heat it up the next time.

Ah Ter Teochew Fishball Noodles, Amoy Street Food Centre

I've heard numerous mentions of Ah Ter Teochew Fishball Noodles (#01-14 Amoy Street Food Centre, 7 Maxwell Road). Happened by one early weekend afternoon before the queue gotten long.

I liked it. The mee pok had a nice texture and were well tossed that it didn't clump together. Very competent bowl of noodles that would have been better if they hadn't added ketchup. What got my attention was their bowl of soup filled with the usual suspect but quality ingredients. I liked that the soup had a nice sweetness (from the cabbage and pork I hope and not MSG) and the aroma of garlic. I will be back.

A few days later......

Tried their 白的. Doesn't look very different from the last time but this bowl of noodles had no chilli/ketchup mixed in. I wanted to taste how it would be with just vinegar and their cut chillis. Not bad. Vinegar tasted a little thin though. Without the chilli/ketchup, I was getting a pretty pronounced flavour from the lard in the mee pok. There's even more of those crispy fried lard in their soup.

75 Ah Balling Peanut Soup, Golden Mile Food Centre

Not bad. Because we've been around here more than usual recently, we've also had the chance to give this stall (#01-75 Golden Mile Food Centre, 505 Beach Road) more than one go. It seemed like they have been around since 1947 - pretty long time for a dessert stall. Tried both the almond soup and peanut soup options and I liked them both. What I thought was special about them were the peanut filled glutinous rice balls. Those were pretty fragrant from the crushed peanut stuffings. Not a fan of their bean paste like matcha flavoured rice balls though.

City Donut, McCallum Street

I've been wanting to check out City Donut (2 McCallum Street, tel : +65 6223 1425) as an alternative to the overpriced and excessively sweet Krispy Kreme for a while but the place has been one of those that was out of mention and out of mind for me. We stumbled upon them by chance recently and got a few flavours to try.

The top one was the ondeh ondeh. Tasted like a coconut bun - the ones with juicy gula melaka shredded coconut stuffings. Not particularly donut-ty. 

Middle's orh nee - the most donut-ty tasting one because it was essentially a regular donut stuffed with pureed yam. 

Bottom's coffee. Didn't like it. Weak coffee taste.

Don't mind trying some other flavour another day but I'm not getting the feels that J.CO's original glazed gave me.

YouFu Fried Hokkien Prawn Noodle (友富福建面), Golden Mile Food Centre

So, this was the stall (#01-57 Golden Mile Food Centre, 505 Beach Road) that had gotten some people talking because the cook for the Hokkien mee was a 21 year old lad. There's probably some divided opinions over the flavour or quality of the noodle he's been making so here's my take. I liked it. What I had was something between wet and dry renditions which I thought was good. There's enough flavour in the stock infused noodles and the quality of the ingredients were decent. They even had a pretty kickass chilli on the side which was yummy. Can't say if I prefer this or Hainan Fried Hokkien Prawn Mee downstairs but I don't mind eating this again at all. 

One week later......

This was the $8 portion with regular bee hoon instead of the thick bee hoon like the last time. They claimed that they were running low on their chilli so could not give more than that little portion that you see from the picture. Today's plate was a little dryer than the one from the week before. Still tasty.