Personal Best in jalapeno cheese bagel from Two Men Bagel House

Did not realize until writing this that it's been almost a year since I was last at this Icon Village outpost of Two Men Bagel House. Menu has gotten a bit of a revamp if my memory serves. This was their Personal Best - featuring spam, crunchy peanut butter, sunny side up and hash brown on jalapeno cheese bagel. I added cheese.

Here I was thinking that their bagels have been shrinking from the past couple of visits. This bagel was hefty and pretty filling. A mess to eat because the fillings were sliding out halfway but a delicious mess nonetheless. Previous delicious messes here (一 二 三 四 五 六 七 八 九 十 十一).

Nasi padang from the Malay stall at Foodclique @ Jurong East

Local nasi padang lunch from the Malay stall at Foodclique at Jurong East (132 Jurong Gateway Road). Not bad. Their paru was in smaller bits compared to the larger pieces commonly served which gave it lots more flavour from the spices used to cook them. There was much delicious spicy savoury on my rice from the combination of the gravy from their ayam lemak, sambal belachan and the sweet chilli from the sambal telur.  

75 Ah Balling Peanut Soup, Chinatown Food Centre

This (#02-113 Chinatown Food Centre, 335 Smith Street) was a branch of the stall at Golden Mile Food Centre. We got the almond soup today with their peanut filled glutinous rice balls. Didn't think there was much of a difference between the Golden Mile stall and this one. Both seemed to be equally good.

Disappointing iSteaks at Suntec

We've had iSteaks' capped loin of lamb a couple of times at Star Vista. They've so far never disappointed. Tried them at Suntec for the first time. The minimal doneness they do is medium. This was much less than medium. Quality control as one can see, is poor. What with only four outlets to manage? No, we did not complain or ask for a refund or even waste our time on a replacement. Won't be coming back.

Previously we've tried their NZ Silver Fern ribeye at Star Vista as well. Today we ordered the Reserve cut which presumably is of a better quality somehow. Look at the medium rare they did. Serious problem with the cooking because this looked like medium raw to me. Only the exterior was cooked so the logical deduction would be that they threw frozen meat into the grill that wasn't properly thawed and wouldn't cook on the inside while the exterior charred. I wouldn't waste more money on this place.

The nicest thing we had was their tea with milk. Look, kaleidoscopic froth!

Even more chicken rice from Mat Noh & Rose

Has been a while since we last ate at Mat Noh & Rose. Prices seem to have gone up. This order of fried chicken thigh with crunchy skin and rice was $7.

The quality of their fried birds and crunchy fried chicken skin were still good though.

I did not even recall that they used basmati rice for their chicken rice. Lower glycemic index eh? Still delicious also. Ditto for their pandan-y chicken soup.

Revisiting Fei Ye Ye Food Tradition (肥爷爷)

I've been wanting to come back and try something from Fei Ye Ye but have never gotten myself back in Chinatown Food Centre early enough. We did today. Since I wasn't a fan of their sui gao/shui jiao (水饺), I decided to try some 凤爪 with char siew. The braised chicken claws were passable. We've had better from other places. Char siew slices were kinda dry. Which meant that there wasn't any of their ingredients in particular that I've tried were anything that I could look forward to. Maybe they aren't worth the time in the queue considering that there's an overwhelming plethora of other options in Chinatown.