Shio kombu truffle soba from Healthy Soba IKI

This month's Spring special from Healthy Soba IKI. Besides kombu and truffle oil - there's also shirasu, rockets and some edible flowers. Looked pretty. I thought that it was a little too salty from the first mouthful of soba but the saltiness subsided very soon after that. Could taste the kombu, shirasu and truffle oil. I haven't had anything bad from them before and this was the same. Like the other plates/bowls I have had previously, I felt like I needed to look for something to eat soon after. :P

Back at iSteaks at Star Vista

I admit that iSteaks works for us as a western food option. They're kinda like Aston's with more variety and a larger price tag. Still quite affordable in my opinion. Came back to try a few more items. This was the one at Star Vista, not the Suntec outpost.

We tried their pasta today. Aglio olio with bacon. It was okay. Garlic-ky and a little spicy with tiny strips of dry-ish bacon.

I noticed that they was a honey ginger option for their grilled chicken previously so I was curious enough to order one to try. There's honey for sure but I couldn't taste any ginger.

We liked their capped loin of lamb enough to order them again even though we had a bad one at Suntec. This serving has proved that the kitchen here knows how to handle this cut of meat and serve it a proper medium doneness with a good char going on the outside. We've had this at least thrice and it's been consistent so far.

Revisiting Tenjin

Ordered exactly the same thing as the last time we were here - their chilled Inaniwa udon set. I don't think I'm going to deviate much ordering at this place so this will likely be the last entry on Tenjin in a while. The only thing that their premium set has that this didn't was the tempura egg.

Which we decided to add on today. Their eggs are from The Freedom Range Egg Co. - a home grown cage free egg producer. That cage free life ended at Tenjin when the kitchen caged them in batter for tempura. If anyone was wondering, yes - there was molten yolk.

Notes from breakfast at Tong Kee Chicken Rice (東記雞飯)

Came to Tong Kee for...an early meal. The stall opens at 10am. I reached a few minutes before and the proprietor said he needed another 5-10 to get his prep done. So the take away was that they're not a stickler for time.

Getting there at the opening hour also meant that some things might not be available yet. I was looking out for the livers and boiled eggs. They aren't ready in the early opening hours. So I ended up asking for a regular 鸡尾 plate. The proprietress suggested some char siew and roast pork and I though to myself, why not?

The roast pork and char siew are generally nothing to write home about. The brown caramel-y gravy that they give on the side made them taste better. 

Between the brown gravy, chicken rice chilli and dark soya sauce, there's usually not enough rice in a single plate for me to use them all.

More food from Komala Vilas

So we came by Komala Vilas during the CNY period and we ordered some items which we haven't tried before.

I've been wanting to try another Andhra meal after the first time I've had it at Sri Lukshmi Naarashimhan. Mainly because of the podi and ghee which they provided for the rice. This one from Komala Vilas didn't have ghee....or at least they didn't drizzle over mine like they did for a neighbour's. The vegetables and curries on the side were the same as the ones from their South Indian meals. Podi didn't pack much punch here. I liked the one from Sri Lukshmi Naarashimhan much better.

Their jeera pulao was delicious. Aromatic and had a good flavour from the ghee and cumin. 

That's their mushroom mutter. Sliced canned mushrooms with peas in masala(?) gravy. Not bad. Had a bit of heat.

To add more grease and carbs into the meal, we got poori too. These were quite nice. The bread had a light crisp and was chewy.

Zhen Cheng Roast (贞诚特色传统烧腊), Cantonment Road

Noticed this roast meat stall (243 Cantonment Road) when we were down trying the noodles from Lao Gu Ban as they were just next door and we thought, why not?

We got ourselves a plate of triple roast. Duck, pork belly and char siew. Quite decent roast meats as a whole but not so outstanding that I'd come back specially for. But then again, I would likely come back here for Lao Gu Ban so I'll probably end up getting some roast meats to go along as well.