Revisiting Traditional Hainanese Curry Rice (中国街海南咖哩饭)

It's been a while since I last ate at Traditional Hainanese Curry Rice (中国街海南咖哩饭). I remember their concoction of sauces/curry being a little thin. I think I might have figured out why. I didn't get the stewed cabbage today and I think the liquid from the cabbage might have been what's thinning out the sauce/curry because it tasted more intense today. Will try another time to confirm.

Are Cows really Bad for the Planet? Why did we start blaming them?

 Food for thought so I thought I'd share.

Pratunam by Soi Thai Soi Nice, Westgate

I've heard about Pratunam (#B2-K12 Westgate, 3 Gateway Drive, tel : +65 6259 3626) but haven't really paid attention to what was mentioned about them besides the fact that they were run by the folks responsible for Soi Thai Soi Nice. Did not realize that they were located at Westgate until now. Tried their omelette prawn fried rice which tasted much like how it looked. The fried rice underneath the egg was unfortunately unimpressive. Saved by the nahm jim, cut bird's eye chillis and crushed peanuts.

Wonderful Bapsang, IMM

Someone suggested this place (#02-25 IMM, 2 Jurong East Street 21, tel : +65 6250 9609) for lunch and I hadn't any idea what was the place about aside from being Korean. They did have a pretty generic looking menu with Korean bbq and was attached to a mart selling Korean products.

Ended up with a donggassu/donkkaseu which was presumably (and obviously!) the Korean take on tonkatsu. Meat's thinner and so was the crust which didn't look like it had panko. The drizzled over sauce also didn't taste like regular tonkatsu sauce - this tasted like some brown sauce with a tanginess like it had HP sauce. The shredded cabbage was also much coarser. It wasn't bad though.

Banchan was pretty decent and free flow. We liked the kimchi that we had multiple refills of it. Wouldn't mind coming back again.

Chick ‘N’ Cheese Burger from McD

It's a McChicken with a piece of fried mozzarella cheese, their regular cheese and "sweet tomato chilli jam". Limited time menu item. Didn't think much of the fried mozzarella - almost half of it was the fried crust anyways. Between this and the regular McChicken, I'd pick the latter. The har cheong gai drumlets were not bad though. They should have har cheong-ed the chicken (preferably the thigh they use for McSpicy) and made a sandwich out of that instead. 

SP3 Chicken Rice, Redhill Food Centre

Heard about this chicken rice stall (#01-69 Redhill Food Centre, 85 Redhill Lane) that used to operate from the canteen at Singapore Polytechnic. It might sound out of the blue for me to mention this at this point but these guys have a better cabbage soup than many chicken rice stalls.

One of the options they have was a combination plate which featured their lemon fried chicken, roast chicken and boiled chicken. Quality of their cooked chickens weren't bad - reminded me a bit of Rong Ji nearby.

Rice was grainy and pretty flavourful. The sort that you could eat without sauces. Their chilli sauce had a light burn and was lime-y though.