Charr'd The Hawker, Golden Mile Food Centre

My attention was drawn to the sotong hitam pasta from Charr'd The Hawker (B1-01 Golden Mile Food Centre, 505 Beach Road). This wasn't just cooked with regular squid ink sauce but instead, rempah from the sotong hitam dish. The flavour tasted like the lighter and less intense version of that gravy but still recognizeably so. Detected lemongrass in it as well. Squid was tender but pretty chewy. I liked this plate. Especially with the spikes of heat from the red chilli they threw in.

龍記XO魚頭米粉 (Long Ji XO Fish Head Bee Hoon), Jalan Membina

Beneath the fading patched signboard and the missing 'i' from their 'fish', 龍記XO魚頭米粉 (#01-01, 26 Jalan Membina) looked a little nondescript. It's a good thing we looked past first impressions...

...and got ourselves a couple of bowls of their XO fish noodles. I saw them splash a spoonful of that "XO" into the bowl. While I don't know what exactly it might have been, it added depth and intensity to the flavour in the broth which was just delicious with the toasty ee mian and tender slices of fish. 

This was undisputedly a much better experience with sliced fish and broth than what we had at Jia Li Seafood Soup.

More chicken rice from Da Po

Some more thoughts on the chicken rice from Da Po. Rice has a good flavour and the texture was quite beady. Did not seem to feel as greasy as I noticed the last time round.

Chicken thigh again. Meat was slurp off the bone tender. What got my attention this time round was the sauce. It was gentle yet filled with flavour unlike some which can be outright salty.

Mr Coconut's Mao Shan Wang shake

I admit that I like myself a Mr Coconut once in a while. What got me hyped up was their mao shan wang coconut shake for July/August. It turned out to be a beverage worthy of its name from that ball of durian pulp and coconut meat they put into the drink. Got me burping durian after that too so that's how I also know it's good. 👍🏼

Wei Wei Carrot Cake (威威菜頭粿 ), Tanjong Pagar Food Centre

I was recommend to give Wei Wei Carrot Cake (#02-52 Tanjong Pagar Food Centre, 6 Tanjong Pagar Plaza) a try after eating from the other carrot cake stall. It's been quite a while since then 😅. This tasted better but I felt that the black ones lacked caramelization and the white one tasted a little bland. I wasn't even sure I could taste fish sauce in this. This reminded me that I haven't visited Heng Heng in a while and that's in order.

Hainanese Chicken Rice (海南鸡饭), Clementi Central

The name of the stall could not have been more generic. 😂 This was the same Kopitiam that houses Texas Lone Star and Jun Yuan House Of Fish (#01-271, 450 Clementi Avenue 3). Chicken rice was pretty darn tasty. This was a plate with thigh/dark meat (鸡尾). Loved the flavour in the rice where the zingy/prickly/garlicky chilli, as competent as it was, wasn't necessary. Chicken was tender and easily slurped off the bone.