Otah toast from Toast Box

We were here to get coffee and saw this on the menu. This otah sandwich/toast thingy was not bad at all. I attribute it to the otah they used which packed sufficient flavour and just enough heat to go with the crunch of those cucumbers. 

Another luxed up bowl of Myojo Char Mee

It's my favourite Myojo char mee again. Those two teardrop shaped fish paste things are fish balls filled with fish roe - frozen from supermarket. Lots of shredded lettuce, a couple of molten yolk-ed sunny side ups and ngoh hiong from a secret location somewhere central of this sunny island.

Li Xing Nasi Lemak, Amoy Street Food Centre

This Chinese nasi lemak stall (#02-80 Amoy Street Food Centre, 7 Maxwell Road) is right next door to Yuan Chun's lor mee. Pretty old school style where one gets to pick their choice of greasy fried/stir fried ingredients to go with the coconut rice. The reason why I've never noticed them before was because these guys are only open for the first half of the day and only on weekdays.

Their rice had a pleasant coconut flavour which I liked. The rest of the toppings were so so from what I've tried. Ikan bilis and peanuts were the sweet and salty kind with just a bit of heat. Sambal was way too sweet for me - good thing I like the rice enough to eat them on their own.

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.