Friday, May 10, 2024

Personal Best in blueberry bagel from Two Men Bagel House

Two Men Bagel House, personal best blueberry bagel

Now that the blueberry bagel's available in all of the branches of Two Men Bagel House , , , , , , , , , , 十一, 十二, 十三, 十四, 十五十六十七十八, 十九二十二十一二十二), here's a Personal Best version of it. Why this combination? Because I can.

Two Men Bagel House, personal best blueberry bagel

Answering an unasked question, yes you can taste those blueberries in some bites.

Two Men Bagel House, Tanjong Pagar

Thursday, May 09, 2024

Mei Heong Yuen Dessert (味香园甜品), Temple Street

Mei Heong Yuen Dessert (味香园甜品), green mango shaved ice

I got this green mango shaved ice thinking that the shaved ice would be green mango flavoured. I was wrong. It was milky and sweet - nothing like the citrus infused ice shaving I was imagining. Those green stuff in syrup that's drizzled over - might be preserved mango. Has that 酸梅 kind of taste. Definitely not the somtam mamuang kind of green mango I was thinking of. My bad for thinking so highly of Mei Heong Yuen Dessert (63-67 Temple Street, tel : +65 6221 1156).

Mei Heong Yuen Dessert (味香园甜品), peach oolong tea

To be fair, Mei Heong Yuen generally doesn't suck. Just this time. Because today they also gave me this peach oolong tea which doesn't have the slightest peach flavour at all. Why?!

White truffle whatevers from Shake Shack

Shake Shack, white truffle burger

Shake Shack's been doing a lousy job out of their limited edition burgers here. Much like how I've been doing a lousy job out of avoiding their gimmicks because......here's their white truffle burger. Made with Regalis Foods’ USDA Organic White Truffle Arbequina Oil they say. But I couldn't tell and wouldn't know any better. Burger's still nice but not so much in the white truffle department.

Shake Shack, white truffle fries

Why so? Because the sauce came across like sour cream or ranch with truffle flavour. Tasted cheap. $8.90 for a serving of fries with that sauce. Why did I even do it? I need to just stick to their regular menu because those are what I like about them.

Wednesday, May 08, 2024

Gong He Guan (恭和馆), Upper Cross Street

Gong He Guan (恭和馆), walnut paste

Pretty sure I've had desserts at Gong He Guan (28 Upper Cross Street, tel : +65 6223 0562) in the past but apparently I haven't talked about them. So here's me not sure about how I'm feeling about their walnut paste. There's definitely walnut flavour but the viscosity was lacking. Felt somewhat thin compared to say Yat Ka Yan. Wouldn't say that it's bad but I also didn't like it so much.

Gong He Guan (恭和馆), gui ling gao 龟苓膏 tea

Milk tea with gui lin gao (龟苓膏) was not bad. Tea's not as diluted as I was led to believe from appearances.

Gong He Guan (恭和馆), Upper Cross Street

Let's eat Prata Saga Sambal Berlada

Prata Saga Sambal Berlada jom makan

The signboard for Prata Saga Sambal Berlada has changed. The cleaner looking update has in big and blue the words jom makan which translates from Malay to 'let's eat'.

Prata Saga Sambal Berlada, bom prata

That's their prata bom - unrecognizeable I know since it's just prata with condensed milk. There's a light crisp on the surface and yummy where there's condensed milk; though said condensed milk was not evenly distributed.

Prata Saga Sambal Berlada, double cheese

Got a double cheese prata. I don't know how much cheese there is usually on the regular cheese prata version so I can't tell if this was really double of that. But it was cheesy for sure. Salty, milky kind of cheesy which also paired nicely with the dalcha and the sambal. I'm thinking this would be great with sugar as well.

Prata Saga Sambal Berlada

Tuesday, May 07, 2024

Healthy Soba IKI, 100AM

Healthy Soba IKI, 100AM

Healthy Soba IKI (十一十二十三十四十五十六十七十八十九has a new shop at 100AM (#02-15&28 100AM, 100 Tras Street). We came over to support Noguchi-san. Quality of their noodles is still as good over here.

Healthy Soba IKI, hotaru ika soba
Healthy Soba IKI, hotaru ika soba

Current seasonal soba comes with hotaru ika. The broth was nothing short of refreshing. What I did not see coming with this bowl, was that one of the initial flavour that registered was actually olive oil. Healthy Soba IKI has always used a nice fruity olive oil.

Healthy Soba IKI, mentai tororo don

Their donburi has at least a couple of new options. This one was mentaiko tororo. Delicious with a splash of shoyu and some wasabi.

Healthy Soba IKI, 100AM