Café & Meal MUJI, Plaza Singapura

First time eating at Muji here (#01-10 to 17 Plaza Singapura, 68 Orchard Road).

The menu hasn't really changed much since they opened. But then again, I haven't actually had much from them

Cumin carrot soup's awesome. Kohi pork tasted like a local coffee 排骨王 and the meat's tough. Sou vide chicken breast with peach & strawberry salsa - didn't taste like peach or strawberry. I think they aren't great with the meats. 

The vegetable stuff was pretty good though. Some of them had meat...like pulled pork and smoked cabbage slaw which was kinda nice. There's a kelp, beancurd skin & hijiki thing which tasted Japanese-y and that's not bad. Butternut squash, purple sweet potato and kale salad thingy was refreshingly citrusy.

I liked the lemon yuzu tart. Citrus-y, buttery from the crust and also pretty sweet.

Beef steak from Wow Wow West

I haven't had steak from a local western food stall in a long while. Chance would have it that I noticed someone eating one from Wow Wow West at neighbouring table and I thought it didn't look bad. It didn't taste bad. Just pretty chewy. The texture on the surface was unusually rough and for a moment, I thought their beef steak was a giant beef patty. But it's not.

The stall asked if I wanted 半熟 which I agreed to. No idea if that meant medium or medium rare but the meat turned out somewhere medium well. I kinda like the flavour imparted by the char on the surface and it didn't taste half bad with the sauce.

Teh tarik cream puff and latte from Baristart

Baristart Coffee has a teh tarik flavoured cream puff for the month.

I liked it. The tea flavour was pretty strong but we were also reminded of cha ron. Not just teh tarik.

Latte's weak. Needs another shot to be real coffee. Was pretty smooth though.

Of peachy black tea and eggy coffee...

We came back to 123 ZÔ for drinks because we liked their peach black tea and egg coffee.

Shaken not stirred. In a cocktail shaker no less.

It's probably tea with canned peach syrup and a couple of slices of peaches but it's a pretty darn good rendition.

A tealight keeps their ca phe trung hot.

We noticed the staff painstakingly froth the egg by hand. That egg foam was sweet, cinnamon flavoured and kept afloat throughout. Nice.

Mr Meepok, ABC Brickworks Food Centre

Mr Meepok (#01-140 ABC Brickworks Food Centre, 6 Jalan Bukit Merah) is relatively new, operated by a couple of young guys. The menu looked to be mostly meepok and they even have their rendition of mazesoba. Here's their signature minced meat noodle which came with a meat roll and onsen egg on top of the usual minced pork, meatball and stewed mushrooms. 

There's a sweetness in the saucing which I'm not a fan of but otherwise this tasted pretty much like how it looked. Also didn't taste lard-y. What they provided on top of the usual trappings is a lime-y chilli sauce which the other minced meat noodle stalls don't normally have.

McGrddl Stck

Just clocking in another McGriddle Stack for the season before they disappear again. These should just stay on the menu.