Tuesday, March 28, 2023

Tun Xiang Hokkien Delights (豚香福建館), One Raffles Place

Tun Xiang Hokkien Delights (豚香福建館), One Raffles Place

Stumbled upon Tun Xiang Hokkien Delights (#B1-30 One Raffles Place, 1 Raffles Place) by chance at the area where Qin Ji Rougamo and Gochi-So Shokudo are located. While looking through the menu, we got the impression that every pork dish that they served was done with Iberico pork.

Tun Xiang Hokkien Delights (豚香福建館), hokkien mee

Tried their Hokkien mee which was not bad tasting. It's not the awesome-est out there but I thought it was competent enough and they did better than IL Fiore with a pretty flavourful stock and a generous load of ingredients including a few sweet prawns. A few squeezes of lime and their sambal adds to it. 

Tun Xiang Hokkien Delights (豚香福建館), white pepper collagen pig stomach soup

Ordered a soup with shabu thin slices of Iberico pork, tripe and fish maw. Peppery and good drinking this one.

Tun Xiang Hokkien Delights (豚香福建館), One Raffles Place

Monday, March 27, 2023

$1.95 mini boat noodles from Shiok Shiok Night Market

Shiok Shiok Night Market, mini boat noodles

The picture up there might not have accurately depicted how small the mini boat noodles were at Shiok Shiok Night Market (100 Orchard Road) because of the angle at which it was taken. It's a small bowl. Just a few mouthfuls. Not bad tasting to if I might add mostly because of the richness from the pronounced red fermented bean curd/namyu (南乳) flavour in the broth which I didn't expect.

What the picture didn't tell was that 3 to 4 of this little bowl would have made their regular sized bowl which costed $11.40. Definitely made more sense to get 3-4 of these than a regular bowl.

More fried chicken and pizza from Asian Food Mall at Lucky Plaza

Asian Food Mall at Lucky Plaza, Jollibee Shakey's

Got some fried chicken from Jollibee and pizza from Shakey's at Asian Food Mall.


The product shot of that spinach bacon glazed pizza like many product shots out there can be construed as deliberating misleading. It looked a lot nicer than the real thing.

Shakey's Pizza, spinach bacon glazed pizza

There was less spinach than I imagined. I think even Dr Oetker's frozen spinach pizza might have more spinach. Turkey bacon looked unnaturally rectangle and was not as sweet as what the word 'glazed' might have suggested. Pretty disappointing.

Sunday, March 26, 2023

Mung bean dumpling (绿豆粽) from Jia Ji Mei Shi (佳记美食)

Jia Ji Mei Shi (佳记美食), mung bean dumpling (绿豆粽)

These local mung bean dumplings from Jia Ji Mei Shi were quite different from the Cantonese variety that's made by Imperial Treasure. I'm not even sure if they were the same type of dumpling even though they were both stuffed with mung beans and pork.

Jia Ji Mei Shi (佳记美食), mung bean dumpling (绿豆粽)

These were denser and less tender in comparison. Still pretty good eating. There's pork, lard and salted egg in them too. It's unexpectedly nice pairing with their generic sweet sauce and chilli.

Jia Ji Mei Shi (佳记美食), Smith Street Food Centre

More mille crepe from Lady M

Lady M, rose mille crepe

Revisiting Lady M. Not as impressed this time round. That rose mille crepe has rose flavouring only on the layer of jelly on the top. The bottom tasted like the regular mille crepe so with that kind ratio, it wasn't that rose-y.

Lady M, sakura mille crepe

There's a limited time sakura flavour. Tasted like some berry yoghurt to me. Couldn't get what's sakura about it except for the colour. Also, this one had a sweetness that got cloying fast. In comparison with the ones we had in the previous/first visit, today was unexpectedly disappointing.

Lady M, creme de la rose tea

Tried the creme de la rose with tea instead of coffee today. Not a bad rose flavoured milk tea but it was a little more than a little too sweet as it compounded on the mille crepe.

Lady M, Orchard Central

Saturday, March 25, 2023

A couple more desserts from Jin Yu Man Tang Dessert Shop (金玉满堂甜品)

Jin Yu Man Tang Dessert Shop (金玉满堂甜品), south bridge road

Came by Jin Yu Man Tang for some dessert.

Jin Yu Man Tang Dessert Shop (金玉满堂甜品), double layered milk pudding coconut

Not a fan of their double layered milk with coconut cream because the flavour was mostly just coconut. Through that, I also didn't think their steamed milk would be very milky even if there wasn't any coconut cream in it. Can only confirm that another time though.

Jin Yu Man Tang Dessert Shop (金玉满堂甜品), fried custard walnut

This was fried custard. I know, right? The taste was kinda like a not so eggy steamed egg with the texture of custard. Not bad tasting. What marred this were the chopped walnuts that were just starting to cross over into being rancid. 

Jin Yu Man Tang Dessert Shop (金玉满堂甜品), menu