More food from So Good Char Chan Tang at 100AM

Back at So Good @ 100AM with dry hor fun & char siew. Rice noodles came with some oyster sauce but adding their roasted chilli sauce on top of that makes them awesome. 

Luncheon meat and egg sandwich was not bad. Pretty sure the luncheon meat from Tsui Wah tastes nicer though

Unexpected pleasant milky bitterness from their coffee sans sugar. I always assumed that their coffee would be weak. While it wasn't the robust brew that Toast Box hits you with, this wasn't half bad. Will not ignore their coffee the next time.

Binky Star, Havelock Road

I noticed Binky Star (729 Havelock Road) quite a while ago. They're an ice cream/waffle shop located along the stretch of shophouses where Starter Lab and Boon Keng New Taste are. We've never stepped in until recently where we got a couple of scoops of their ice cream. Coffee Asteroids was a great flavour by the way with the robust coffee flavour and crunch from bits of nuts and chocolate. Chocolate Sorbet was also pretty refreshing.

We came back to try their waffles which were made to order. Nice crisp on those. Topped them up with a few scoops. Like banana with roasted nuts, black sesame and taro with coconut milk. They were all delicious. Definitely looking forward to coming back for more waffle and ice cream. The little pot that came with the waffles was honey or maple syrup with citrus rinds. 

Breakfast at Old Chang Kee Coffee House

This was our first time eating at Old Chang Kee's Coffee House (#01-36, 1 Tanjong Pagar Plaza, tel : +65 6444 1735). We've previously been here and bought their steamed curry bao to go. 

We got a couple of them today because they're not bad tasting. Personally think they're a better eat than their curry puffs if I wanted their curry chicken whatevers.

That's their blue pea nasi lemak with dry chicken curry. That dry chicken curry didn't taste like how I remembered it at Curry Times which I assumed to be using the exact same recipe since both places are owned by Old Chang Kee. Peanuts aren't toast-y and the ikan bilis tasted like it came from a packet - both of which needed the sambal to be decent. Rice was okay tasting. In retrospect looking at prices that they charge, I'd say that Ponggol Nasi Lemak is a better way to spend one's money. 

Lee Lai Jiak (李来呷), Tiong Bahru Plaza

Lee Lai Jiak (#02-105 Tiong Bahru Plaza, 302 Tiong Bahru Road, tel : +65 6518 4519) is a relatively new Taiwanese fast food joint that's taken over the space previously occupied by Old Street Bak Kut Teh in Tiong Bahru Plaza - just next door to Tongue Tip Lanzhou Beef Noodles and a coin's flick from Ramen Hitoyoshi.

They do popular representatives of Taiwanese food on rice plates which the restaurant term as "bento". Which also kind means that their options bring nothing new to the table. They're selling pretty much the same stuff as every other Taiwanese joint that's been around since....Peng Lai Ge, Lai Lai and Ryoriya Sangokushi/Sun King Ryoriya which actually have better variety as eateries.

I'm not dissing the food. They're not bad tasting. I liked those pickles/salted vegetables which was great pairing with the food especially the rice. Everything we had was fine. Except for the soggy deep fried pork chop from their Railway Bento soaked in the sweet/tangy sauce which I wasn't fond of.

Hatsu, pidan tofu and maguro at Chirashizushi Shou

More food from Chirashizushi Shou.

Got an order of hatsu and munched on them while waiting for their donburi. These were also teriyaki glazed but were served hot and tasted better than the ones we had at The Skewer Bar. 

I liked their pidan tofu. The century egg sauce was sweet and that made it dessert like. If I wasn't mistaken, the tofu base tasted like chawanmushi rather than just regular bean curd.

The tuna from their maguro tokusen don did not look attractive. They were the ghost of akami. Where's the aka in them? Then again if they were beautiful shade of deep red, I would probably wonder if they had been treated with carbon monoxide. 😂

But seriously, my question on the quality of the meat came from the taste, not the colour. Not getting much flavour coming from the fish at all. I also realized that just one egg yolk wasn't enough "saucing" to go around for all the fish and to help mellow the heavy hand they have with the vinegar in their rice. 

Ramen Dining Keisuke Tokyo, Capitol Singapore

Keisuke has shuttered their Ramen Dining Keisuke Tokyo at Suntec City, Resorts Word Sentosa and Parkway Parade. Following those closures, they've opened a new shop at Capitol Singapore at the spot where Guan's Mee Pok used to be (#B1-35, Capitol Singapore, 13 Stamford Road). I wonder if this was consolidation or just the first of more to come.

They love to make you work for their free eggs. Either that or I suck at peeling them. 😅

Came here today for their Keisuke Jiro styled bowl. This was a heavy one. I think they've done this on limited run previously and it's made it to the regular menu. This was strong soup, hard noodles and extra garlic with regular portion of vegetables. Not bad. The broth looked murky but tasted clear predominantly of shoyu, garlic and had bursts of porcine flavour from the bits of pork fat. The charshu was thick sliced and pretty tender. Almost like the outer layer just below the surface of slow roasted prime rib. No kidding.

Almost midway through, I added some shichimi and La-Yu to crank up the heat to compare with the spicy megamen from Brothers Ramen. Think the megamen is a little more garlicky. Between these two, I like the megamen a little more as well.