Ji Ji Noodle House (基記麵家), Hong Lim Food Centre

I've only taken notice of this stall (#02-48/49 Hong Lim Food Centre, 531A Upper Cross Street) recently. They're located along the interior facing units just to the left of Lee Kheong Roasted Delicacy (李强烧臘) or three units to the right of Eddy's (艾迪1号). The thing that most people seem to be eating from them are their wanton noodle. Which I didn't get because the curry chicken cutlet noodle looked/sounded more appealing.

Those things on the top right are not tissue paper - I added boiled wanton. I like this bowl. Curry was comparable to the one from Cantonese Delights so it's creamy and deliciously savoury with a mild heat. Kind hard to tell which stall has the better curry noodle at this point but I definitely preferred getting these two compared to the soup-y poached chicken ones from Heng Kee and Ah Heng.

A pleasant surprise was the couple of stalks of non-fibrous kailan - what a gem! If it wasn't so visible from the picture, portions of the chicken chop were pretty generous and it even came with crispy chicken skin. I guess what also ultimately help tip the scales for me was the noodles that weren't soggy.

They have a machine for payment which dispenses change. Not something one normally sees in hawker food stalls.

A poké from Poke Theory

I must have had poke some time previously but I don't remember where they were from. But I'm sure this was my first from Poke Theory. Got this with the shoyu tuna and quinoa base. Not bad tasting but there was coriander in it. I was told that might have come from the avocado sauce. Didn't like those chuka wakame though - they were too salty.

NBCB

The name abbreviates 'Nothing But CheeseBurger'....nbcb all of you, what else could it have meant?! Anyways, they're a home kitchen business that sells nothing but cheeseburgers on Fridays and Saturdays only. The double pattied burger I got had gotten was a little soggy but the buns held up with those hefty coarse ground beef patties that were done medium. Nice - though I think they could have been much better with some char. 

There was supposed to be nothing but a smear of mustard but it tasted much more saucy than just mustard. Should just lose that leaf of lettuce which contributed nothing. As a whole, the burger was not bad tasting at all. Unless I'm able to get it in less of a mess, I might just pass on the next opportunity. But how would I know? Now that there's 2280 around....

Feng Xiang Bak Kut Teh (豐香肉骨茶), Beauty World Food Centre

I was drawn in by the fried porridge from Feng Xiang Bak Kut Teh (#04-65 Beauty World Centre, 144 Upper Bukit Timah Road), not so much their bak kut teh. This was a claypot of said porridge with sliced fish - thick chunky slices of some freshwater fish (obviously underneath) and additional bak chor (also not visible). Porridge's flavour was umami and a little smoky with shreds of dried cuttlefish. While the taste was not as intense as the one from Old World Bakuteh, it was also less oily. The generous chopped spring onions were a nice touch.

Got a plate of deep fried intestines as well. They're okay, slightly offal-y in taste and some parts were more chewy than crispy. Nice with their sweet/spicy/sour chilli & garlic dip though. I spy soy sauce braised pork trotters on their menu and wonder if those are good.

Siti Nur Liyana Nasi Lemak, Adam Road Food Centre

I noticed Siti Nur Liyana Nasi Lemak (#01-14 Adam Road Food Centre, 2 Adam Road) the last time we were here. They don't use basmati rice like the No.1 Adam's and Selera Rasa but that ultimately is more of a textural thing since it was nasi lemak and all these stalls did a good coconut milk infusion and salt to bring out the flavours. What attracted me to them was also that they have paru - not the better ones I've had but it didn't suck by the way.

Chicken wing's a lot better here - there's more flavour and the batter wasn't hard. Fried egg had a softer yolk. Sambal was a little sweet (and a bit of heat) which one had to use sparingly to avoid masking the coconut flavour in the rice. Oh yeah, I like the ikan bilis here - crispy and not hard. While this stall in my experience isn't usually mentioned in the same breath as the other two, I'm thinking that they've got to have their own fans too right?

Revisiting Ko Ryo Jeong Korean Restaurant (고려정)

Seems like we've been having a bit of Korean food lately. The last time we were here which was not a few days back, we had the cheonggukjang jjigae. Today we got the ugeoji galbitang. Among a couple of other things.

Today's banchan was almost entirely different from the last time; which was also different from the first time. Except for the kimchi. Rotation's good because there's something hopefully good to look forward to. Well, it's been good here so far.

When they refilled the banchan, we even had something new. I'm gonna take a stab at it and call it spring onion pancake. That was what it tasted like.

Ordered a bibimbap with pork. Portions were huge. Could feed two.

I think this was gosari namul - fiddlehead ferns hidden beneath the other vegetables. They're apparently a classic ingredient in bibimbap but I've never noticed them till now.

They gave us a small bowl of soup (maybe sundubu jjigae) and a dish of gochujang for the bibimbap. Look at the ingredients that made the multitudes of different textures. This was so good.

Kimchi jeon - the crusty exterior tasted a little cheesy. Not bad but a little greasy.

Their ugeoji galbitang was delicious. The ugeoji part refers to the cabbage leaves. Lots of them inside together with leeks and onions and whathaveyous along with tender fatty short rib pieces. Love the beefy flavour of the broth.