米粉面 from Lai Heng Mushroom Minced Meat Noodle (來興香菇肉脞麵)

So I thought I'd try bee hoon with yellow noodles (米粉面) seeing that I've already had the other noodle types from Lai Heng Mushroom Minced Meat Noodle. I said yes to the extra noodles they offered. No charge for the extras noodles if anyone was wondering. In retrospect, that was possibly what happened the last time I had mee kia here. Huge bowl but I inhaled it steadily till the end without difficulty.

More stuff from Xing Hua (兴化) at Tiong Bahru Plaza

This pickled vegetable sea bass from Xing Hua wasn't very expensive so we ordered one to try. Fish was fried and ladled over with a pickled vegetable broth which was sour and spicy. It's not the awesomest or a very kickass rendition of 酸菜鱼 but it was also not bad. Had a home cooked feel to it.

That's their salted egg fried rice with shrimp. Pretty decent and there was a lot more salted egg yolk tossed into the rice than I expected.

Double chicken wings nasi lemak from Nusa & Tara

Got a nasi lemak with extra chicken wings from Nusa & Tara.😬 They didn't give me cucumbers today for some reason. I'm thinking of doing extra rice next time because there's just so much of that yummy sambal to go around.

A couple of more donuts from City Donut

Popped into City Donut since we happened to be in the vicinity.

Tried the 72% dark chocolate. Pretty rich chocolatey taste but not the particularly aromatic kind. Wouldn't bother with this again.

This key lime pistachio didn't taste bad but if one set their expectations from the name, it was kinda disappointing. Because I did. The pistachios weren't particularly aromatic and I wouldn't have known from taste alone that they were pistachios. Key lime flavour wasn't outstanding. Not a bad tasting donut but it's kinda sad when there are two main flavours and both aren't up to scratch.

Buttrmilk, Food Republic @ Shaw House

They (#B1-02 Shaw House, 350 Orchard Road) aren't as good as write ups online I've come across make them out to be. As fried chicken, they weren't bad per se but the meat tasted kinda bland. Most of the flavour were on the crust. These aren't even Chic-a-boo standards as fried chicken go. What surprised me though was the butter rice. I think it's just butter and some dried rosemary/oregano thing which was unexpectedly tasty.

Spicy savouries and walnut paste from Yat Ka Yan (一家人)

Trying some of the savoury food from Yat Ka Yan today. Yam cake's pretty peppery - much more so than most yam cakes we've had and it's not bad tasting. Between this and the one from Jia Ji, I still prefer the latter but I like the sweet sauce here better. Didn't taste like the usual sweet sauce.

Here's their curry yong tau foo. Was expecting something similar to Nonya styled curry with more coconut but they one they did wasn't coconut-y. This curry was more akin to the one from Nana in flavour but it wasn't exactly the same as well. Not a fan. Didn't mind the yong tau foo pieces so I might try the non-curry version the next time.

Walnut paste was pretty competent. Flavour from the walnut came through and the paste was viscous but not starchy. They got it right there.