More stuff from Treasures Yi Dian Xin (一点心)

Breakfast-y Cantonese food for dinner at Treasures Yi Dian Xin (一点心). That's what's been happening lately. We ordered their pork glutinous rice dumpling for the first time. 

The dumpling was very tender. Filled with mung beans, bits of pork, pork fat and chestnuts. Deliciously savoury with the sauce that came with it.

Their bbq pork collar was okay-ish. The meat was marinated that the flavour from the marinade was mostly it along with some of the caramelized bits. It wasn't bad tasting, just won't be ordering them again.

There's mushroom dumplings. Good mushroom-y flavour going on. As much as we enjoyed them, I felt the ones from Imperial Treasure Fine Teochew Cuisine were better tasting.

A lontong special for breakfast from IAAI Malay Food

It's not a special from the stall per se. Just their lontong to which I added a couple of epok epok because I wanted to have both and not have to choose between the two. What I also wanted was to be able to dip those puffs into their hae bi flavoured lontong gravy for that extra flavour.

Trying the strong dashi broth at Enishi

Enishi has changed. Shaken up a little. Seems that they're doing 100 bowls a day now. I wanted to try the stronger dashi broth from them because we picked the regular option previously and thought a bit more intensity in the flavour would be great. This stronger broth was not bad. But that's not all to the story. Enishi has really changed. The knee jerk was to attribute it to the fact that the Japanese chef wasn't/is no longer around and the current person just did things differently. 

How exactly was it different you might wonder? Different enough that I regretted ordering the 'special' bowl for the extra ingredients.

Charshu was disappointing. I upsized my bowl to the 'special' imagining that the charshu would be as I recalled, the tender and crumbing in your mouth experience. This was thick sliced and hard. Wasn't sure if the long torching session had anything to do with it. I tried to finish it but in the end, I had to leave that bit behind because it simply wasn't worth it. Duck was tender and chewy. The rest of the bowl was fine. Today's dan dan noodles has crushed peanuts in it which I didn't recall from our last bowl. Seemed that they've decided to go crunchy instead of just smooth - like peanut butter.

Johor Road Boon Kee Pork Porridge, Veerasamy Road

This was the another popular stall located at the same coffeeshop as Mui Xiong. They sold porridge and like Mui Xiong, one ordered and then waited patiently for the order to be processed. These guys had a order chit and a number panel to let you know if it was your turn to collect. 

So don't mistaken the lack of a queue for a short wait time. There was only one person in front of me ordering and it took about 45 minutes to get our porridge. Ours were pork and cuttlefish. Chock full of ingredients and wasn't bad tasting. I didn't like that they added ginger and there was an odd sweetness to the porridge I couldn't identify. I wouldn't mind if I didn't have to wait but there's little chance of that happening - it's not good enough to be worth so much wait time.

Char siew noodles from Malaysia Chiak at Great World

This was from the KL char siew stall at Malaysia Chiak which had char siew rice and noodles. I had originally intended to get the rice after looking at the picture they had at the stall because it looked like chicken rice but after inquiring, they confirmed it was just regular rice so hence the noodles. 

It wasn't bad. Had some bite. I would have preferred more intensity from the dark soya sauce. The noodles ended up tasting better with their chilli (either the pickled green or red sauce or both) added. But char siew was disappointingly dry and boring. Not what I expected when they advertised themselves as KL styled char siew.

Back at Murugan Idli Shop

It's been a while since we were last here. We were actually intending to stop for some masala tea but ended up with a second breakfast. Murugan Idli Shop doesn't serve masala tea by the way. So it was meduvadai, dosai and idli. Now I remembered why I loved those ghee podi idli - the podi along with the buttery ghee made it taste almost cheesy. A little pricey but delicious.

We had butter dosai too. Nice tangy batter with crisp sides that was so good with the chutney. Speaking of which, I need to come here more often to try more things. But it's gonna be hard passing up on those ghee podi idli.