Habib's Power Mee Stall, ABC Brickworks Food Centre

I was drawn to Habib's Power Mee Stall (#01-8 ABC Brickworks Food Centre, 6 Jalan Bukit Merah) because I saw that there was the option for lamb tongue for their soup kambing. The tongue was sadly unavailable today when I ordered so I ended up with just lamb ribs. Which were very decent slip off the bone tender with a good amount of fat for flavour. The soup's consistency was a little thick and I felt it needed a bit more salt. Don't know if this was due to the fact that fasting is on going currently and they couldn't fine tune from tasting. 

I'd pick Bahrakath Mutton Soup King over this anytime.

Maggie goreng was pretty good though. I liked that the noodles were sufficiently dry from the stir frying. They use ground mutton here so maybe I'll get one with extra mutton the next time.

Bizen Okayama Wagyu Steakhouse, Plaza Singapura

Bizen (#N3-10 NomadX @ Plaza Singapura, 68 Orchard Road, tel : +65 6219 3463) is by the Astons Group. They do steaks - specifically wagyu ones brought in from Bizen in the Okayama prefecture through partnership with farmers there and the idea was to provide affordable wagyu to the masses here. A3 graded I read.

What Bizen does that the other steak restaurants don't are the options of steaks from cuts that aren't available commonly available. Like delmonico, pope's eye, teres major and another seventeen which aren't the commonly graded as prime cuts like ribeye, tenderloin and sirloin. They do have those as well though.  Their variety looked more yakiniku than steakhouse but not everything is available every day.  

I got the tri tip which was fatty and quite intensely flavoured. Relatively tender and had a bit of bite.

Like I said - fatty. And intensely flavoured.

Wouldn't recommend the grilled fish here at all but I would come back to try other cuts of their wagyu.

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.

They also had 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 that 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.