Coke - coffee, caramel and chocolate......

So I came across these at 7-11 too and the cat got killed. The one with caramel tasted like Kopiko with a bit more caramel. I know it's probably not saying much but I didn't think there was much else I could describe. The one with chocolate was the nicer one of the two because of the light chocolate flavour which kinda differentiated it from the Kopiko/caramel/Coke combination of the first. I'll not be getting them again though. 

Another take out from Margaret Drive Chicken Rice

We've done take out from Margaret Drive Chicken Rice a number of times. I'm detecting inconsistencies with the standards of their rice. We had this to go before the lunch crowd came in so they were just about finished with the preparation to start service when I made the order.

The chicken had just been taken out of their cold water bath. Chilled and tender but it was never at the standards of the old Sin Kee. Still nice though.

I asked them to leave out the coriander and they left out the spring onions as well for some reasons. But we were given a lot of sliced cucumbers.

Today's rice was substandard even for this particular stall. I could tell from the texture that they were slightly undercooked because of the extra graininess. I expected that a professional who believed in their craft would not have let something like that slip and would rather tell a customer to wait rather than rush something that needed a bit more time. 

Sour plum Oreos

Came across these sour plum flavoured Oreos in 7-11. So I thought why the hell not. 

Apparently some sort of limited edition flavour for Spring. They're packed in fives.

The first taste from the cream was sweetness before the wave of sour plum flavour swept across. Tasted like the cream had sour plum powder. 

Works with milk too.

Chef Wang Fried Rice (王厨), Beo Crescent Food Centre

Came across this stall (#01-71 Beo Cresecent Food Centre, 38A Beo Crescent) selling fried rice which I believe to be relatively new because I hadn't noticed them before. There were congratulatory flower stands and a couple of accolades put up at the stall front.

Some of you eagle eyed might have noticed and pondered if this looked like the fried rice from Din Tai Fung. Yes it certainly did. Tasted much like it as well at half what Din Tai Fung charges. So that means about the same price as King of Fried Rice - another local fried rice shop that's been compared to DTF even though the chef is a alumni of Jumbo Seafood.

The pork chop was thinner and dryer though. Heavy on the marinade so it kinda makes the rice taste a little bland after you've had a piece. Not complaining though seeing that we're getting the bar raised for less expensive fried rice which is a good thing. It's not cheap for hawker centre food but it is much cheaper than what one has to fork out in restaurants.

Marché, before dining out is out again

This was our last meal out before the Heightened Alert came into effect and we could no longer eat out again for another month. Since we hadn't eaten at Marché for a while, it sounded good.

They've introduced their XXXL schnitzel for a while now. I was curious. There's pork, beef and chicken. This was beef, presumably veal because while I could tell it was meat, I couldn't tell for sure what meat it was. The beef was pounded thin and the fried cutlet was huge. I was initially thinking that I might not be able to finish this but as it turned out, the breading was nice and crisp. Even though it was largely breading (maybe 60+%?), it was tasty and we did finished it.

Rosti with cheddar and fried egg was good. Very nice. Now I know specifically what to repeat orders for this in the future.

The lamb chops looked sizeable so we ordered some. Filled with generous layering of flavourful fat on the meat. Kinda happy that this last meal out for a while was satisfying.

More eating at Putien

I'm not a shareholder if anyone was suspecting. I just like their food.

We have favourites like their fine Heng Hwa bee hoon which is great on its on or with their lime-y chilli sauce.

They also do a very decent lychee sweet and sour pork (咕噜肉) which we enjoy.

This was their deep fried tenggiri - Spanish mackerel which is pretty common in this parts. Fish was dry without excessive grease and pretty tasty with their sweet garlic sauce.

Ordered their kailan with bean curd skin. Loved those bean curd skin. Reminded me of the tau kee that I used to eat loads of in Chinese vegetarian bee hoon as a kid.

The Duotou clam festival is in progress so we grabbed a pot steamed in Huadiao wine (花雕酒). This method of cooking preserved the natural flavour of the clams while adding another light layer from the wine on top. 

See how fat and juicy looking the clams were. They were literally squirting out hot juices when I bit into them.