Revisiting Blanco Court Beef Noodles

This was the dry bowl with everything in it from Blanco Court Beef Noodles. Sliced beef, beef balls, tripe, shank and tendon. That gloopy sauce had a nicer flavour that I imagined and I kinda liked it. Great texture from the shank and flavour from the tender chewy tripe. I got pretty thirsty after that so my thoughts were just wandering along the lines of heavy handed MSG. I actually don't know if there was.

Hao You Ji Charcoal Roast (好友记炭火烧腊), Clementi

Pretty decent roast meat from Hao You Ji Charcoal Roast (#01-129, 325 Clementi Avenue 5). Liked the char siew which has sufficient caramelization and the roast pork which had crispy crackling. What I enjoyed most were the thin strips of tender and moist roasted duck breast. 

Gimee Face Noodle House (给面子), Holland Drive

The guy taking orders and preparing the noodles at Gimee Face (46 Holland Drive) gave me a face that looked like I owed him money. 😒

Anyways, here's a bowl of their mala spicy pork noodle. Forgot to ask for mee pok. I liked it though. The sauce was salty with a tiniest bit of 麻 moderately light 辣. Livers were nicely cooked. What's odd was that there were braised mushrooms and also the canned variety in their bowl of noodles. I'm ranking this bowl just behind Shiok Shiok Noodles.

Meatball soup's pretty good too. The broth was light yet pleasantly flavoured with delicious house made meatballs. Liked that they added lard in this which added their brand of fragrance. Will come back another time.

Crayfish mee pok from Li Yuan Mee Pok (栗原ミーポック)

It's been some years since I've had the crayfish mee pok from these guys. Here's one from their shop at Commonwealth. That crayfish seemed less meaty and I'm pretty sure that there wasn't so much ginger previously in the soup on the side.

Rumah Bebe, East Coast Road

This shop (113 East Coast Road, te; : +65 6247 8781) looked the part of a prettied up Peranakan shophouse unit, albeit one that's a tad ostentatious. Maybe because of that, I got the feeling that it might be more style than substance with the food but we came by for some coffee and kueh anyway.

They weren't bad tasting. I prefer Bengawan Solo's kueh salat to this because I like the kaya/pandan custard layer to be less gelatinous. The rendition from Chalk Farm was also nicer so I'm really not feeling for the salat here. Ditto for the latter location on the sugee cake. Their baked curry puff though, which looked like a tiny Cornish pasty, was nice.

Coffee's not good. At all. Weak. Not aromatic. Note to self : never come back here for coffee.

Leung Sang Hong Kong Pastries (良辰美點), Jalan Membina

I remember getting some bakes/pastries from Leung Sang Hong Kong Pastries (#01-06, 18 Jalan Membina, tel : +65 6271 6056) in the past. They were okay. They've been around for quite a while. I got this custard filled bolo bun from them recently.

It's those old school dry custard. The name of the shop suggests that they're Hong Kong styled and they're just that. At least for the bolo buns. I've always felt that they didn't fall within the golden range of crust to bun ratio that would have made them great - like say compared to those from Kam Wah in Hong Kong. The local bolo buns just generally don't have well done crust. Or am I missing something?