GATAO Taiwan Breakfast (角頭台灣早餐店), People's Park Centre

I haven't walked into this building since I was a kid. Anyways I got this pork chop sandwich from a Taiwanese stall in the food court (#01-04A/05A/05B People's Park Centre, 101 Upper Cross Street). Pretty decent five spiced pan fried pork with a fried egg and some lettuce slathered in mayonnaise. What was nice was that the sandwich was made to order and wasn't something sitting around waiting to be picked up so it's fresh in that way.

Tarpow-ing cai png from Ocean Curry Fishhead

Here's cai png with a couple of more toppings that I haven't had before from Ocean Curry Fish Head. Like those squids stewed in squid ink and curry leaves which left the sauce tasting much like...*Scott Travis drumroll*...curry. Nice - aside from the infusion of curry flavour spiked with heat from an occasional slice of chilli padi in what tasted like a cholesterol laden squid ink sauce, the squids were also stuffed with their roe. A mouthful there. And double entendre if you caught it. They also do the local rendition of sweet and spicy kung pao chicken which I liked. Not forgetting some garlic-ky kang kong for the obligatory greens that I ought to have more regularly.

Tong Kee Cooked Food (童記熟食), Tiong Bahru Food Centre

We've noticed people having wanton mee from Tong Kee Cooked Food (#02-24 Tiong Bahru Food Centre, 30 Seng Poh Road) before and thought they looked good. What killed the cat prevailed today. 

Here're some reasons why we will be coming back. The wiry texture of the noodles were enjoyable. Chilli sauce that went with those noodles were also respectable. On top of that, the char siew had nice caramelized bits and were tender. Wantons were also pretty tasty. They had gotten all the main components of wanton mee done nicely. All for a princely sum of $3.

Singapore Lor Mee (新加坡鹵面), Tiong Bahru Food Centre

Here's a generically named lor mee stall at Tiong Bahru Food Centre (#02-32 Tiong Bahru Food Centre, 30 Seng Poh Road) - the third lor mee stall located there after another generically named but popular Tiong Bahru Lor Mee and the other Lor Mee 178 with the shark nuggets. Don't remember if I've ever eaten at the latter two - but then again, I've never been big on lor mee.

We tried this because we were curious about their fried cod fish lor mee. The batter was thicker than I liked and there wasn't much flavour in the cod. Not gonna be getting that again for sure. The noodles were pretty decent tasting but the same could be said for many other lor mee once it's been doused with some vinegar, garlic and chilli. As it had been with other experiences, I liked the bowl better once the gravy had gotten less starchy.

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.