Revisiting Soi Thai Soi Nice

Dinner at Soi Thai Soi Nice.

For some reasons I had ordered the green curry thinking it was tom kha gai. Wasn't until it arrived that I realized that mistake. Pretty edible but we've had creamier ones which we thought were nicer.

Got those prawn cakes which we though were pretty good the last time round. Today's were served with achar - very similar to the ones from my grandma that I grew up eating. Nice. 

We've been trying to order their omelette with cha om since the last time but haven't been successful since they claimed to be out of cha om on both occasions. We ended up with the one with oyster which was pretty good stuff as well. The floury crisp on the surface and edges were deliciously savoury while the moist eggy interior were loaded with bean sprouts and more plump oysters.

They do a pretty tasty khao kha moo. The meat and skin from the trotters were slurp off the bone tender in a herbal stewing sauce served with boiled eggs and tau kwa.

Quattro formaggi pizza with anchovies from Pastaria Abate

It's been a while since we've had anything from Pastaria Abate. They have pizzas on their menu now. This was a quattro formaggi pizza with additional anchovies through GrabFood. Stinky right? Actually not so. At least it wasn't for me. It wasn't as cheesy as I had expected but it redeemed itself by having the prerequisite blue cheese flavour while having thrown in some crisp walnuts and dried figs as well. The anchovies added bursts of briny saltiness in random bites. What's more, there's sweetness from honey drizzled over. Not bad.

Butterknife Folk, Funan

I've gotten gelato from this shop (#02-02 Funan, 107 North Bridge Rd, tel : +65 6970 9151 ) a couple of times previously and I remembered them having unusual flavours. We got ourselves a three mini cone sampler thingy today selecting another bunch of uncommon flavours - local ones like laksa, muah chee and hawthorn flake. There was a lot more hae bee in the laksa one than I thought but couldn't detect any of the laksa leaf which I had assumed would be somewhat prominent. Muah chee one was mostly identifiable by the sweet sauce ripple, not so much that of rice rolls. I liked the hawthorn one the most.

Revisiting Phat Burger Bro.

Came back try more burgers from Phat Burger Bro.. Eating at the shop, one could sense the greater care in the construct of their burgers. They weren't slapped together in a hurry. This BBQ bacon cheeseburger was delicious. Nice beefiness that was paired thoughtfully with the bacon, cheese, pickles and sauce where the ingredients came through. I liked that they didn't destroy it with too much sauce. Burger was kinda small though.

Southern fried chicken burger was not bad. They used breast meat so it was a little tough. Liked that they did not over drench the slaw. The fries that these guys do were really nice but the "make it a set" option didn't have so much of them compared to the a la carte order I had previously. Now I know how it'll be the next time.

Did the Yahoo team that reviewed this get a much bigger piece of fried chicken?

Get the spicy chilli dog from MOS Burger. That one is much more satisfying than this was. I don't think un-pickled jalapeño worked here.

Milkfish, Raffles City

Stumbled upon Milkfish (#B1-44F Raffles City Shopping Centre, tel : +65 6254 4946) at the spot that used to sell Thai food at the basement of Raffles City. It also happened that we were looking for something that wasn't heavy and seafood soup sounded good. So we took a closer peek at their menu and decided to give them a try.

Milkfish has signature soup set that comes with a drink. This was their tomato plum soda - basically tomato and preserved plums in some...soda. The tomato flavour came through but I couldn't taste the preserved plums - which was odd. 

So that signature set came with a bowl of seafood soup with some condiments, an "oriental salad" and a choice of carbs. I was thinking of no carbs this time but because of their chilli sauce, my brown rice vermicelli was the first to be inhaled. That chilli sauce was vibrantly lime-y - kinda similar to the ones they have at Putien.

The flavour of the soup tasted more fish than seafood. Pleasantly tasty but it's not the very intense type. Seafood quality was good. That block of meat patty in there (the thing that some might mistaken for a cube of yam) - that was delicious. 

There's marinated chilled tomato in the set. That's what the menu called it anyways but the tomatoes tasted like they were macerated.

The "oriental salad" looked like something from a popular neighbouring restaurant. Said neighbouring restaurant has more salt and vinegar and hence, was much more tasty.

A fishy end on their chopsticks.

Koong Woh Tong, Funan

Mmmmm...the chilled herbal jelly/gui lin gao (龟苓膏) was nice. The jelly had that crisp herbal bitterness that left a dry bittersweet aftertaste. Just needs a tiny bit of syrup for a layer of light sweetness. I chased the jelly with a warm five flower tea (五花茶). This shop (#B1-11 Funan, 107 North Bridge Road) is a branch to their other outpost at Toa Payoh.