Rat's tail noodles from Ah Xi Prawn Crackers

No rats were involved in rat's tail noodles (老鼠粉). Don't recall having gotten any breakfast from Ah Xi Prawn Crackers before but I've tar pow-ed lunch a few times. Here's a breakfast to go with luncheon meat, hash browns, braised pig's skin and a fried egg (hidden below with the rat tails). Not a fan of the brand of luncheon meat they are using. Their pig's skin were kind of chewy - not as tender as I had imagined. Chilli's the spicy and sweet kind.

They're open early for breakfast and have a bunch of other items as well commonly found in economical noodle and cai png stalls. Not exactly the most memorable but very serviceable food in the hood.

Cheesy Beef Quad Stacker from BK

If Burger King is still using their "flamed grilled" ads for their products, they should be ashame of themselves. It's been a very long while since I've tasted "flame grill" in their food. Definitely not in this quad stacker which felt.....hollow - without even much flavour coming from the beef. No char grill aroma for sure. Just cheesy. They did something similar years ago.

Anything that isn't Ultimate Angus for their beef burgers these days have become subpar even when compared to McD. But you'd have to pay more for those. This "better" quality used to be the baseline standard in the past. How far the King has fallen.

Nasi lemak from Lee Wee & Brothers

Decent tasting but not fantastic nasi lemak from Lee Wee & Brothers. About the same price as Crave if my memory serves. They're both a little different from each other and I can't say for sure which one I like better. What I think Lee Wee can do much better is their chicken cutlet box which is the option I normally pick because I'm not usually a wing person and their fried prawns usually look sad. That chicken cutlet been sitting out there for a bit and there's no more crisp left to it. Would also be nice if they actually found some way to prepare fresher ikan billis kacang instead of packeted ones that they throw in with each box.

Squid otah was not bad though.

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.