Fish soup from Bukit Merah Lane

This fish soup stall (127 Bukit Merah Lane 1) is right next door to the Yang Zhou Fried Hokkien Mee that's formerly at Beo Crescent.  Looking back, this was also the very same coffee shop that previously housed the short lived Dracula and Funny Lasagna years ago. Haha.

I got myself a bowl of 双鱼. I liked the chunky slices of boiled fish. The fried fish had crispy batter and that batter was a little too generously salted in my opinion. What might not be so apparent were the generous portions of cabbage in the soup. 

Speaking of soup, flavour from the broth was intense but I was not sure what to make out of it because it was both heavily salted and also pretty sweet at the same time without much of the fish flavour. 

These guys seemed pretty popular judging from the queue. I don't mind giving them another go if I didn't have to waste my life in the queue but I don't think that's ever going to happen.

The Royale from Crave Nasi Lemak

I didn't think highly of Crave the last time I had it. But I managed to get their nasi lemak, specifically their Royale, for a couple of dollars off the usual price so I decided to give them another go. There was little similarity in the rice with their progenitor and I wasn't exactly surprised with that. I couldn't taste any salt in it and I have heard from reliable sources that there were properly salted rice at the other outlets so they're inconsistent. The rest of the ingredients weren't bad. I did enjoy those fried chicken wings. They were deliciously savoury with a solid crispy batter which tasted like those from Ponggol Nasi Lemak.

Lemon chicken rice with 白鸡尾 from Tiong Bahru Hainanese Boneless Chicken Rice (中峇鲁海南起骨雞飯)

I had mentioned previously about trying their fried lemon chicken thinking that their's was probably like any other lemon chicken rice, with a lemon-y syrup/sauce drizzled over the breaded deep fried meat. There wasn't any of that. It was just fried chicken. Since I got this in the early part of the day, it was still pleasantly crispy. And yes, I added 白鸡尾 and a hard boiled egg to that. 

The Jolly Spaghetti from Jollibee

We've had fried chicken from Jollibee numerous times but have never ordered their Jolly Spaghetti because it never looked appealing to me. I've also heard comments about how it was sweet and that didn't help endear them to me. For some reasons, we ordered and tried recently and it didn't taste half as bad as I had imagined. There was a light beefy flavour to the slight sweet sauce and the noodles weren't as soggy as I thought they might have been. 

Food from Don Don Donki

Bought food from Don Don Donki recently. We've seen them every time we were there and have been tempted almost every single time. Most of the time, we just walk away. Not this time.

This packed sukiyaki gyudon was actually tasty. It wasn't excessively sweet as I imagined and those thinly sliced beef had sufficient fat for that beefy flavour. Will definitely get this again.

These beans were quite nice. Lots of crushed sesame in it.

Have previously mentioned their aburi-ed kanikama.

These cream filled rolls below were much talked about in the local social media group for Don Don Donki. Because of what killed the cat, we bought one to try. Not bad. Pretty light. The cream wasn't as milky flavoured or sweet so the former is room for improvement and the latter is a good thing. Don't thaw these completely from the the freezer so that there's still some frozen parts of the cream for the "crunch".

Sambal prawn fried rice from Chef Wang Fried rice

The queue at Chef Wang Fried Rice (王厨) hasn't abated. On an off peak hour during the weekday, in and out was still 30 minutes. Tried their sambal prawn fried rice this time. It's edible. Not much heat nor aroma to the sambal which was a little disappointing. What added to the disappointment was that I had to pay additional 50 cents for the sambal. Not worth that 50 cents. Wouldn't bother again even if it was free of charge.

Today's regular fried rice tasted different (opined from another box of pork rib fried rice). No longer getting the Din Tai Fung feel from the flavour. Which was kinda strange because the first time I had it, Din Tai Fung was the first thing that came to mind. If this was the first time I was having Chef Wang's, I wouldn't have even put them together in the same sentence as Din Tai Fung. I gotta stop talking about Din Tai Fung. So erm, I don't think I would rank today's above Wok Hey's even.