Lao Ye Teochew Porridge (老爷潮州粥), Happy Hawkers @ Kim Tian

Lao Ye Teochew Porridge (201 Kim Tian Road) is located at the same Happy Hawker coffeeshop as the recent King of Fried Rice. We noticed them that last time and thought their offerings looked appealing.

Nice. Everything we ordered was competently done. The minced pork with black beans sure was good with rice. Pomfret was delicious. Will come back again.

Revisiting Konjiki Hototogisu at Great World...the good and the bad

Haven't had the oyster paitan bowl from Konjiki Hototogisu in a while so we came back for it. Still delicious.

They're in bed with Osaka Ohsho apparently so there's chahan on the menu. Lousiest tasting fried rice I've ever had from a Japanese shop. Whatever it was they used was not evenly distributed in the stir fry. It's also bland-ish. Gyozas were okay.

Didn't think it was worth it to finish the plate. There's also a bit too much grease in it and not in a good way at all. Note to self : never get fried rice from them again.

Red Hill (红山), Redhill Food Centre

This (#01-73, Redhill Food Centre, 85 Redhill Lane) was the other stall with bee hoon stall which I've previously noticed. Yes, the name is Red Hill. They sell a bunch of local breakfast-y stuff along with packaged snacks. Old school here.

I think they're okay. The bee hoon wasn't as delicious as I imagined but it was better tasting that the one from Faith Nasi Lemak. The first ones that came to mind which were better are Chang Ji Gourmet and Hup Lee. And yeah, there was quite a bit of oil pooling in those fried eggs. Cabbage was not nice...very greeny tasting. Don't bother with the luncheon meat.

Durian and yam desserts at Yat Ka Yan (一家人)

Even more desserts from Yat Ka Yan. Yam paste was nice. The texture wasn't entirely smooth with little bits of yam in it. This bowl had a tang yuan because they ran out of gingko nuts.

Today's hot durian paste was served hotter than the last time and I noticed that it cooled really quickly so it's something that has to be eaten fast because hot is the way to go for this one.

Mala xiang guo at Zhang Liang Mala Tang (张亮麻辣)

We came back to Zhang Liang for their mala xiang guo. Had the bowl 中辣. I had expected more heat out of it but I'm not complaining with what we've gotten. Wonder if the heat had been dialed down for locals.

Nicely done in my opinion. No excessive oil pooling at the bottom, deliciously salty and great variety of ingredients that you could pick. Toasted peanuts too. This was noticeably more pricey than the likes of Tian Fu Ren Jia. Understandable since this was in Bugis and the spread was way larger so I guess that's what we paid for. 

Note to self : do not pick the dory the next time.

More prata and fried chicken from Master Prata

Tried a couple more prata from Master Prata. Left's what they call soft prata, which I had hoped/presumed to be a bit more chew than crunch like the old school style but it wasn't exactly like that. It's just a fluffed up crispy kosong I think. The other one's the banana egg prata which was pretty good.

That's an order of fried chicken, refried I believe before serving which got it nice and crunchy. I detected a hint of ginger in the marinate and a good bit of garlic. This tasted more Chinese than Indian.