Blanco Court Beef Noodles, Chinatown Point

I don't remember if I've ever had Blanco Court Beef Noodles but they have a number of branches across the island. This was the shop at Chinatown Point (#B1-52/52A Chinatown Point, 133 New Bridge Road, tel : +65 8816 1979). The bowl at the top was their mala beef noodles - something they did as a Father's Day Special for this month. Hot and numbing spicy according to them but if you asked me, it was definitely not 麻 and probably just 小小小辣. Needed a bit more salt as well but otherwise, not bad tasting.

Their soup tendon kuey teow was more impressive. Those tendons were chunky and tender. While Blanco Court Beef Noodles didn't have the most memorable broth, it passed muster with sufficient saltiness that made it delicious.

What you'll find upping the game are the condiments which one can help themselves to. Peanut's good for dry noodles and lime's good for everything. Chilli sauce with chinchalok = delicious dip for the meats or spicy flavour enhancer for their soup. Even though they didn't have the most impressive beef broth out there, they didn't leave us without options to zhng it as well.

Ab Undance

It's been a while since our last visit to Abundance. We made the queue shortly before the place opened and shortly after we were seated, that queue became discouragingly long. Business looks good.

One of the current brews on tap was a Peach Sour. It was sour and fruity but not exactly peachy. Not bad for our sweltering weather though. The other glass on the right was some lychee oolong concoction. Not getting the tea for that one.

I wanted to try the crispy chicken bun. It's kinda like som tam mamuang with peanut sauce on a fried chicken in the buns. Seeing that I much preferred the spicy mango slaw over the fried chicken, I knew this wasn't for me. Which means my favourite bun from them is...

...the gua bao. Sans coriander of course.

Wanted to get their red hot chilli dumpling noodles because I liked the mala-ish dumplings and their springy shaven noodles from the previous visits.

They do a pretty decent XO fried rice. Needs a bit more salt but it was not bad otherwise. I couldn't help but to keep thinking about Din Tai Fung's fried rice as I ate this.

While waiting for our vegetable to arrive, a pint of their Scottish ale on tap. This was a bit more sour than what I was expecting.

So the vegetables. Chilli oil, wok seared cabbage and bacon.

Briyani set from Gandhi Restaurant

Came back to Gandhi Restaurant for their briyani set meal. We tried the the regular one previously so this was just natural progression. 😅

Pretty regular tasting briyani with their spice infusion. Not that it was bad but I could not pinpoint anything distinctive about their flavour.

We ordered onion chicken which was a fried chicken thigh with caramelized onions and curry leaves. Chicken was a little dry. It's the onions that were tasty. Will probably not get this again.

Their rich nutty masala mutton was kickass. This dish scored with the combination of tender chunks of lamb and a spicy creamy paste. We had originally wanted the ribs which they had ran out of. We were glad to have tried this. Will still try our luck with the ribs another time though.

This was another curry with loads of little shrimps and green peas. Not bad.

Some potato-y fish cutlets.

Not to self - their lassi was thick and creamy. One of the enjoyable ones around.

Curry Kapitan chicken nasi lemak from Uptown Nasi Lemak

I had the idea for some reasons that the Kapitan chicken curry from Uptown Nasi Lemak would be a dry curry chicken. Possibly from the picture on the menu. It wasn't and had a viscous lemak gravy that tasted coconut-y and potato-y. Beneath that creamy curry was the chicken thigh and drumstick - one that was smaller than what they used for their ayam goreng berempah. If anyone needed to know, they've upped their prices by 50 cents for all the chicken items in the current fresh chicken drought.

The indecisive Vadai Shop

We've noticed this shop (#02-84 Amoy Street Food Centre, 7 Maxwell Road) for a while. The name should be The Original Vadai instead of The Vadai Shop or The Vadai Shop @ Amoy. Finally decided to get a few of their vadai. They aren't visually distinct except for the one with prawn. The picture up there features one of those with prawn, one with ikan bilis and another with gragos. I like the latter two. Did not expect so much of the shrimpy flavour from the latter of the latter. Haha! The bread was tender, light and greasy in a good way. Will try more another time.

The basic bowl from Guan's Mee Pok

I wanted to experience Guan's Mee Pok minus frills so this was just the basic bowl with nothing else. Also because I wasn't that hungry but I still needed to get some food. Not exactly the run of the mill bcm ingredients if you've noticed and it's arguably expensive for their small portions, but we're at Capitol Piazza. I enjoyed it. Both the meaty dumpling and fried roll (are those ngoh hiang?) tasted better than they looked. The noodles didn't have the greatest of textures but were especially good with their marinated cut red chilli.