Mom's Touch, Centrepoint

With the name Mom's Touch (#B1-07 The Centrepoint, 176 Orchard Road) and products like Mom's Thigh Burger, isn't anyone getting the Oedipus Complex-esque vibes? Hawr hawr hawr....anyways this Korean fried chicken brand was brought in by the No Sighboard Holdings group which runs No Sighboard Seafood. Alright then, no signboards for anything Oedipus Complex-y stuff.

That's their Incredible Burger up there. Fried chicken, egg, ham, onions, pickles, lettuce and sauce. A mouthful. Maybe it's the sauce. The usual suspect that overwhelms the flavour of everything else because it taste like a average fried chicken burger to me. Not much of the other ingredients came through except for the lettuce because there was actually quite a bit of lettuce there. Nothing particularly outstanding that I'll likely pick Popeye's or a McSpicy over this. I don't mind giving them another try though just to be sure. Right mom?

$6 at Yuan Chun Famous Lor Mee (源春驰名卤面)

It seems that the difference between the $4 bowl and this $6 bowl from Yuan Chun are the amount of fried toppings that they give. The bowl wasn't larger nor did they give more bee hoon. It was a lot more enjoyable because of the increased toppings though. Noticed that the sliced chilli was a mixture of the regular variety and chilli padi. I'm starting to dig their gravy which I've just noticed to be egg dropped. 

Tonkatsu, another not for takeaway or delivery

Previously I was mentioning about resisting takeaway ramen because they were best eaten freshly prepared. Tonkatsu is another one of those things that fall into that category for its own reasons too.

How would one run through refills of the shredded cabbage without eating at the restaurant?

The fried panko crust surely couldn't stay as warm and crispy.

Delicate items like scallops might either overcook or stiffen because of dehydration during transit.

Yeah, tonkatsu is one of the things I had been missing during the HA. I never thought so much about them as the times when I couldn't eat them at the restaurants. If anyone was wondering where these were from, it's Ginza Anzu.

Winter black truffle cheeseburger from Meatsmith

I haven't had the cheeseburgers from Meatsmith for some time. Not since their $10 cheeseburger Tuesdays which they sadly do not run anymore. Oh wait, maybe it was that beef marmalade cheeseburger with Burnt Ends. 

What they do have recently was the option of having winter black truffle (from Coomer Truffles in Manjimup, Western Australia) shaven on their cheeseburgers. It was $10 for 5 grams of the truffle and we were recommended to get 10 grams for more flavour. I also wisely decided to get them burgers without the sauce and with pickles on the side so that I could actually taste those truffles.

Burger was a little small but I enjoyed it. This was definitely one cheeseburger where the aroma of the truffles came through along with that salty crusty brisket patty and cheese. 

BurGrill, Hong Lim Food Centre

Herein lies another banker to hawker story but that's a story for another place. I came to check them (#02-09 Hong Lim Market & Food Centre, 531A Upper Cross Street) out because they were serving rosti. It was delicious. From the creamy scrambled eggs to the crisp shredded potatoes but it needed a bit more salt. Or salted butter. The bratwurst on the side was more flavour rich being smoky, salty and meaty at the same time. I would come back again.

Lucky Chicken Rice, Lucky Plaza

I hadn't eaten at Lucky Chicken Rice (#02-110 Lucky Plaza, 304 Orchard Rd, tel : +65 6738 4175) since I was a student. Without going into specifics, it was a very long time back. It used to be "the chicken rice stall" to eat at along with Hainanese Delicacy at Far East Plaza when you were a student hanging out in town without much money to spare for lunch.

Naturally, I have forgotten much of how their chicken rice tasted like. I only remembered that it was 'nice'.

Rice was they beady textured type with light flavouring from the chicken oils and garlic. This only meant that there was no dilemma between chilli or no chilli. Speaking of which, the chilli sauce was not bad.

We ordered half a roast (deep fried actually) chicken. It costed more than what many places charged for a whole chicken but I suppose this was Lucky Plaza. What did that mean? High rentals and adjustment for many non-locals that eat here. The meat was moistened by the sauce which was pretty salty. Skin of the bird look shrunken and wrinkled all over and didn't have any crisp at all. But it tasted very much the roasted chicken flavour.

Livers were creamy and gizzards were crunchy. At this point, I realized that what this shop doesn't do is good quality sesame oil over their food.

Eggs.