Banana appam with butter from Mr Appam

Back at Mr Appam with their banana appam. I asked for additional butter. Watched the proprietress scrape "butter" from a can - I'm not sure if it was butter or even margarine. It was yellow. She carefully melted those down the crisp sides and made sure the middle had extras. She said it would be delicious with brown sugar and then proceeded to sprinkle them over the appam.

I enjoyed it mostly because of the melted bananas. But I couldn't taste any butter or margarine so I'm not sure what she put in there.

Nanu, Chinatown Food Centre

I thought it was somewhat unusual for a fish soup stall (#02-122 Chinatown Complex Market and Food Centre, 335 Smith Street) to also sell curry chicken and laksa. Nanu looked like one of those under the radar eatery. Maybe it's because their broth didn't particularly pack that fishy (in a good way) flavour and hence the essence of their bowl wasn't something many people might be searching for.

Wasn't bad though. This was the 双鱼 bowl with the toasted crispy noodle (生面), After the ikan bilis, sang meen and fried egg had been soaked in, the flavour from the broth developed. To add further zing, there's light soya sauce/sliced chilli. Decent quality fish slices and I liked the cube of tofu in there. While I'm thinking that I wouldn't mind if I had to eat here again, there's simply too much other greater distractions in Chinatown Food Centre.

Chirashi King Kong, Tanjong Pagar Plaza

Local kaisen don shop (#02-06, 1 Tanjong Pagar Plaza, tel : +65 8551 1544). The seafood on rice bowls aren't exactly traditional Japanese as the word traditional could describe these things. Won't exactly be the sort that one typically sees in a Japanese fish market.

Tried one of their bowls with aburi otoro and foie gras. Not bad. Pretty big piece of foie there. But I'm not a fan of the synthetic tasting truffle flavour in their rice.

The scallop saikyoyaki sounded good with their house made sweet miso sauce and the torching. If only the scallops were more substantial than those thin slices.

Amoy Street Fried Oyster (維通廈門街蠔煎), People's Park Food Centre

This (#01-1136 People's Park Complex Food Centre, 32 New Market Road) looked like a regular stall selling oyster omelette and fried kuey teow. Upon closer inspection of the menu, there's also oyster kuey teow. We ordered one. Flavour's kinda light and more like the Penang style than the local rendition. The oysters were half cooked...or less. I guess they were in place of what were usually cockles. I'm not a fan of how in your tongue face oyster-ly those tasted.

Because we had the pan fried oyster hor fun at Poh recently, I just had to compare. Poh blows this out of the water at exactly the same price.

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.