Fish eggs at Leng Kee Fish Soup

 Uova di mare. 😬

Mee kia from Lai Heng Mushroom Minced Meat Noodle (來興香菇肉脞麵)

I've tried a few of the noodle options from Lai Heng. Between the kuey teow, yellow noodles and their mee pok, I prefer this mee kia the least. Not that it's bad but that's just the way it was for me. The portions today were huge. Larger than usual even though they've all been the $7 bowl. Felt like a "Jiro" version of bak chor mee.

Prawn and oyster hor fun at Poh

One can get the preserved vegetable kuey teow from Poh with both prawns and oysters. Just two prawns and two oysters per serving. I'll stick to either the regular (prawn) or oysters only the next time. 

Cowaramup, Telok Blangah Road

Heard about Cowaramup (404 Telok Blangah Road, tel : +65 8500 1111) a while ago. They're apparently Australian styled and set up with the chef Jimmy Teo who's also responsible for Meat 4 Meet at East Coast Road so there're parallels in the menu which I had initially thought to be the same dishes. Didn't taste so. Sadly by the time we visited, the fried sweetbread that used to be on the menu a couple of months back were not longer available.

I remember this as the double bacon cheese burger pappardelle on their older menu and it's been renamed to omit the 'double bacon cheese burger'. Someone must have noticed that it was outright misleading because this was just a bolognese with some cheese sauce. No onions, or pickles or cheese burger cheese in there that would have made it cheeseburger-y.  

One of the parallels in the menu mentioned earlier was their lamb cutlet. Looked very similar to the one at Meet 4 Meat. Just more expensive and smaller portions. The flavour from one at Meet 4 Meat made me think of balsamic glaze while the sweetness of this one tasted more sugary like char siew. Not bad tasting but I felt the lamb flavour was a tad subdued. Menu also mention corn ribs but this was obviously some generic mesclun salad on the side. Would have been basic courtesy for them to mention what they're failing to deliver.

The ordering person registered medium rare but it arrived more like medium well.

Duck Wellington's not bad. The crust looked like it had a nicer egg wash and was more buttery than the one on the Beef Wellington at Meet 4 Meat. Generous portions of duck and foie gras in this one. Not bad.

Extra vegetables and another Purple Cow at Shake Shack

So that's what extra lettuce, onions and tomatoes in Shake Shack's (一, 二, 三, 四, 五, 六, 七, 八, 九, 十, 十一, 十二) double ShackBurger looked like. Not as much as I had imagined. Not complaining though. Go Purple Cow!

It did feel a little more well balanced between the meat/cheese and vegetables in each bite compared to the regular double which is generally more beefy/cheesy.

Zhong Pin Noodle House (众品麵萬家), Bukit Merah Central Food Centre

Came here because this stall (#02-04 Bukit Merah Central Food Centre, 163 Bukit Merah Central) has kolo mee. Haven't had one that's good for a long time and I've personally felt that the Traditional Sarawak Kolo Mee chain have been on the decline for a long time. Except for that curry one which I liked. But that's because of the curry. 165 Pork Rib Noodles nearby doesn't count because that's just a hybridized rendition of prawn noodles.

Not much saucing in this bowl of noodles so it's a little dry but I've never really had much against dryness as long as the flavours got through. I asked for extra fried lard and they were generous with it. Not big on their char siew though. Noodle texture had just enough bite so......not bad. Will not mind eating again.

Since we were already here, we tried a bowl of bak chor mee. This bowl has dark soya sauce and it's not exactly vinegary. Again, extra fried lard there. Ingredients were the generic factory sourced ones except for the stewed mushrooms which were kinda juicy. Wouldn't say it's bad bowl but nothing about it makes me want to eat it again.