Hock Lai Seng Teochew Fishball Bak Chor Mee (福来成潮州鱼圆肉脞面), Maxwell Food Centre

Hock Lai Seng Teochew Fishball Bak Chor Mee (#01-26 Maxwell Food Centre, 1 Kadayanallur Street) is by the grand scion of the force behind Ah Ter Teochew Fishball Noodles. While the description of their noodles are different (Teochew fishball bak chor mee versus Teochew fishball noodles), they kinda make the same kind of noodles.

Which left me questioning, why was this ketchup-less bowl also a little sweet. Just like those times I've forgotten to ask Ah Ter to omit the ketchup. Anyways the flavour was not bad. I have no qualms coming back again. Strong punchy flavours, nice vinegar going on and they're sufficiently generous with lard (both 猪油 and 猪油渣).

The soup had a touch of sweetness and clarity amid the savoury flavour that's perfumed by the aroma of fried shallots. Definitely tasting the dried sole infusion as well. Prawns were of good quality, doneness of the sliced livers were great and...the rest of the ingredients tasted run of the mill but well done. Pretty satisfying.

Kailash Parbat & Anjappar, Changi Airport Terminal 1

Kailash Parbat and Anjappar are in the same space in Changi Airport Terminal 1 (#03-20 Public Area, Terminal 1, 80 Airport Boulevard) with a common seating area and ordering counter. We've been to both restaurants at Syed Alwi Road years ago and didn't expect to see them together in Terminal 1. The former seem to be offering mostly chaat. The latter - it's been more than a decade.

Sweet lassi. Okay tasting.

These dahi puri were from the Kailash Parbat section. Not getting the competency vibe from the guy in the stall and while these weren't bad tasting, it didn't feel as properly made as those we had at Syed Alwi.

There've a pretty competent mutton fried rice in the Anjappar section. The generously portioned rice (it's $15 by the way) was much lighter than the looks suggested. Mutton was tender and some of them had tendon-y/fatty bits. Nice.

There's also something call Anjappar Popular Meals which was a rice meal with a few vegetables dishes, curd, rasam, chapati, a dessert (we got a halwa) and a meat of choice. Our meat of choice today was the fish and the spicy/savoury/tangy curry for it was outstanding. Now I know where I can fall back to if I ever have to eat in Terminal 1 again.

Sweet glutinous rice with fried shallots from Millennium Glutinous Rice (千年糯米饭)

I seem to recall that the salty glutinous rice from Millennium Glutinous Rice came with the fried shallots while the sweet one has peanuts. Don't know if I remembered that correctly now because I've gotten portions that were mixture of sweet and salty and also have gotten servings with both fried shallots and peanuts. Are there even relations? 😅 Anyways, I got a sweet portion today with just shallots. The aromatic shallots and the tender sweet rice was... a delicious combination.

Burger King's Ultimate Angus Classic BBQ

So this was basically the child of Burger King's BBQ Turkey Bacon and a Whopper. For some reasons, I had never noticed from their menu that this has 'BBQ' in the name until today. I doubled the meat. Tasted pretty much like how it looked. Didn't over do the sauce. Burger was chunky, hefty and the patty's a bit dry-ish. With all the other stuff in there, I could barely register the cheese. Between this and the Ultimate Angus Mushroom Swiss, I prefer the latter.

A 350g Australian 'Steakhouse Char' ribeye from iSteaks

I've previously tried the New Zealand grass/pasture fed ribeye so here's the Australian 100 day grain fed meat (Bindaree). It was more expensive ($55) and I didn't think it was noticeably better tasting even though grain fed implied that they are suppose to be fattier. Quite a bit of silver skin and sinewy bits though.

Now that I've tried their "heavier cuts", I'm no longer curious and I'll just stick to the lamb.

Margaret Drive Chicken Rice, Holland Drive

I don't remember if Sin Kee ever had the name Margaret Drive featured so prominently on their signboard. I do recall that there was a time that they kinda disappeared not very long after they had relocated from Mei Ling Food Centre to Holland Drive some years back. They've obviously rebranded after and even had a branch at Havelock Road Food Centre that had inconsistent standards which eventually folded during the pandemic.

Anyways, this Margaret Drive Sin Kee is located in a different unit from their original one when they as Sin Kee Famous Cantonese Chicken Rice first moved to this coffeeshop (40 Holland Drive). That original unit is currently King of Pao Fan.

Here's the part where I exclaim, damn the chicken is still great! Slurp off the bone tender chilled bird drizzled with their concoction of chicken stock/sesame oil/light soya sauce. There's no metics to any of these quality but this stall is definitely of better standards than the defunct Margaret Drive Chicken Rice branch at Havelock Road.

I've always classed Sin Kee's chicken rice a league above many others. Or was that all others in my experience. I don't actually remember any one which I felt was better than their's which is again, sufficiently flavourful without being excessively oily.