Saizeriya, Orchard Gateway

Have passed by this Saizeriya (#B2-11 Orchard Gateway, 277 Orchard Road, tel : +65 6702 4451) a number of times, but have never tried them until today. You may wonder what's the big deal since I've already been to the ones at the defunct Liang Court and City Square Mall. Shouldn't they all be the same? I don't know but I've heard that the branches at Holland V and Star Vista aren't good.

This was a squid-y lunch if I might say so. That grilled squid was actually kinda nice with the charred bits, soya sauce and butter along with the slightly chewy parts that had the intensified squid flavour. Not rubbery at all.

Josh's Grill, Bugis Junction

I've notice Josh's Grill (#01-69 Bugis Junction, 200 Victoria Street, tel : +65 6337 8633) for a while now. They're managed by the group that runs Poulèt, Riverside Grilled Fish and City Donut amongst a bunch of other restaurants. While we were curious, I was also afraid that it might be another Collin's experience. Fortunately, it didn't turn out like that. We were glad we tried.

Each person got a sweet roll with butter.

One of the items that piqued my curiosity about Josh's was their bbq lamb ribs. Not much of these going around as I recall. The last I had one of these was Tony Romas at Johor Bahru. And La Strada. Meat was scrape off the bone tender. Liked that they didn't overdo the bbq sauce. Note to self: skip the cheesy butter rice rice the next time.

There was an affordable pan fried sea bass. The skin could have done with more crisp but I'm not complaining. Very decent piece of tender flaky fish. That seafood cream sauce on the side was more lemon-y than crustacean-y than I had imagined.

That's the Brazilian lemonade. Lemonade with cream or condense milk. Kept the citrus but took the edge off that. Not bad.

More breakfast-y food at 焱

They ran out of fried eggs or I would have had them too. Just realized that I could eat these chicken wings using chopsticks with relative ease by sucking the meat off the bones. Even at 4pm, these guys don't look like they could slow down with the queue. Just after me, was some dude who ordered 10 packets to go.

A chocolate and pickle sandwich

So I've done peanut butter & fried shallots, peanut butter & pickle, kaya & salami and chocolate & salami. Nutella with pickle is starting to sound not so far off, isn't it? I liked it. Tasted nicer than I imagined with the sweet tanginess of the pickle balancing off the chocolate-y creaminess from the Nutella. 

Sliced fish and fish roe soup from Yu Mei Mei Shi

Here's giving Yu Mei Mei Shi another go. $6 fish soup with $4 of fish roe. I could tell that the roe was just done from the tender texture. Soup had a light flavour from dried sole which wasn't even enough to threaten the sweetness. If one is looking for intense deep flavour, this is simply not how they roll.  Didn't taste bad but I wouldn't call it satisfying. Also pretty pricey. 

Miso rosu katsu from Tonkichi

Had the miso hire katsu years ago at Tonkichi so I wanted to experience the rosu today. I had the impression that the miso at Tonkichi was sweeter than what I tasted today. Did I remember wrong? I'll never know.