Mansor D'Cafe, Far East Plaza

Pretty good nasi padang stall (#04-34 Far East Plaza, 14 Scotts Road, tel : +65 9421 7005) tucked at a corner in Far East Plaza. There was a lot more dishes than we could have tried in a single seating. A few things were memorable. Liked that fried fish (ikan selar goreng) because it was sizeable enough to be meaty. Sambal goreng had a creamy savoury sweet sauce and large chunky pieces of tofu in it. That lemak cili padi gravy that was ladled over the rice was rich tasting and packed a respectable heat at the same time. Gotta come back another time. 

Where Kopifellas doesn't measure up

So like every other such business that has done well enough for themselves to have branches, quality more often than not meets inconsistency because the coffee's standards are pegged largely to the maker - not the branding. Today's coffee looked good, smelled good but didn't taste as good as the smell suggested. Was more enjoyable the last time when it was another brewer. Also I've had a taste of the butter they used from their butter sugar toast. Pretty generous slice between the bread but kinda lacking in that butteriness.

Another go at Meng Kee Fried Kway Teow

I decided to give Meng Kee another try for a couple of reasons. This place is constantly hailed as one of the better char kuey teow and that I had just recently caught the episode of Greg's Big Eats featuring this place. That got me thinking so I thought I could give it another chance. A hum-less $5 plate with chilli. Nope, not impressed with the plate. A decent plate? I could go with that. But it wasn't exceptional. At all. Not getting the smokiness or char on the noodles that people described. Dark soy sauce wasn't especially rich nor fragrant either.  

Zaiton Satay, Adam Road Food Centre

There were a couple of stalls selling satay in the food centre and we ended up getting some from Zaiton Satay (#01-14 Adam Road Food Centre, 2 Adam Road). Their satay weren't as caramelized as I would have preferred so some texture and flavour were missing without those carcinogenic burnt ends. Heh! Still, they were pretty tender and moreish with the sweet marinade - notably the mutton ones which were better tasting than what I had imagined. Liked that the viscous dip had sufficient crushed peanuts.

Getting cheesy at Tokyo Sundubu

I didn't think that I could definitively discern the mentaiko from the bowl I had the last time so I went straight for just the cheese sundubu with extra cheese. It's one portion more of that shredded mozzarella.

Today's namuru was different. I was thinking that these things don't get changed up but apparently they do. The vegetables for this round were pretty peppery. 

Didn't look like there was that much cheese even after that extra portion but it was enough to manage some stringy cheese pulls.

Like I mentioned the last time, it was a better idea to just get the rice into the sundubu pot and eat after mixing.

Tried their potato cheese chijimi. Loved those crispy crusty edges which were not very salty. The pancakes had slices of potato in them so that was mostly what they tasted of. This turned out better than I had imagined. Wouldn't mind them again.

Egg ghee thosai from Hajjah R.S.A.

So I got the egg ghee thosai today from Hajjah R.S.A. instead of two separate thosais like I did the last time. It felt less substantial but I guess that's what I wanted because I remembered getting two felt like a bit much. Also pretty sure that there was more ghee flavour in the ghee thosai then than this combo one with the egg. The masala vadai though... it's fried chicken good. 😬