Big Fish Small Fish, Bugis Junction

I've heard of this shop for a couple of years but have never tried their food until recently. I had previously misjudged them for another faceless clone of Fish & Co or Manhattan Fish Market. They aren't exactly that. Big Fish Small Fish (#04-05 Bugis Junction, 200 Victoria Street, tel : +65 6904 8386) has more options and better quality for their fish and chips.

This was haddock and chips. You had to top up $1.50 to get chips (or fries) because they were served with crisps as a default. Don't know what's the deal with those crisps but I like mine with chips. Back to the haddock - the fish was firm and flaky with a solid crunchy flavoured batter that wasn't excessively thick. Great contrast pairing. IIRC, they also costed as much as what Smiths used to charge for their fish and chips.

There's grilled sea bass on the menu. Looked more pan fried than grilled to me. Didn't taste bad though. Sautéed vegetables on the side were tender and the crisps....were crisps - greasier potato chips. The pilaf was spiced and punctuated with sweetness from the raisins but the rice was dry and lumpy and would have benefitted with a bit more of salt.

Revisiting &Joy Dining Hall at Great World

This was the first time we were ordering food from Kuriya at &Joy. It seemed that food orders from any of the stalls are accessible from any of all the kiosks these days. Should've done that right from the start. Back to Kuriya - they have a pretty tasty and tender slow cooked salmon under a section of their menu they described for clean eating. 

Here's a frutti di mare pizza from Pittarino. Not bad tasting with the seafood and cheese on the thin crust - wouldn't mind a bit more generosity with the seafood though.

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.