Suju in May

Inadvertently, we found ourselves back at Suju ( 一, 二, 三, 四, 五, 六, 七, 八, 九, 十, 十一, 十二, 十三, 十四, 十五, 十六, 十七, 十八, 十九, 二十). The dishes on their menu appears to rotate these days. Not a bad thing that.

We've been wanting to try their uni crostini since we first noticed it at this branch. It's aosa tempura topped with uni and there's caviar (don't know what kind) and shaved miso foie gras.

Couldn't taste the caviar and miso foie gras. But the uni and fried seaweed was nice. Beware, not cheap!

Sweet corn tempura.

Never noticed that they had grilled herring before. This was much better than I imagined. The fish was good quality and the meat was moist.

The bonus was the fish roe that was in the pregnant herring.

What's that you say? Fish roe!

Fish bloody roe! Look at the amount in one fish. And hell yeah it was delicious! 👍🏼

Pork chop hoba yaki. Miso marinated and baked in banana leaf with leeks and shiitake. Nice miso flavour in the relatively tender slices of pork but it's unfortunately not memorable compared to most of the other things we've had here.

Today's hayashi rice was nicer than I remembered it. There was a luxuriant creaminess to the sauce of red wine that accompanied an appreciable balance of sweet savoury tanginess. And thinly sliced beef. So good.

The matcha tiramisu's back after disappearing for a while.

Keisuke Plus, Funan

Keisuke Plus, or is that K+ (#01-15 Funan, 107 North Bridge Road, tel : +65 6320 3456) is the new offshoot from the Keisuke Group, themed as a ramen/gyoza/sake bar and restaurant kind of eatery. The menu sports a selection of ramen that isn't available in any of their other shops. 

Place looks a little more fancy than their usual ramen joints. The tradition of free hard boiled eggs and bean sprouts is continued here.

One of the things Keisuke Plus appears to be doing is showcasing what they can do with wagyu. Which isn't a new thing or uncommon in this era. We had an order of their wagyu gyoza.

It's delicious. Beefy gyoza kind of delicious, seeping with flavourful oils. This blows the more expensive ones from Mashi No Mashi out of the water just by the virtue that we could tell that it was beef.

This - their wagyu mazesoba.

Nice. There's a mixture of flavours from the ingredients which somehow did not overwhelm the intrinsic flavour from the meat. I'm reminded of a beefy bak chor mee.

Mazesoba was also good with the hot sauce they bring to you for it. This one was not that spicy.

The bowl that hit like a punch from Saitama was their Hokkaido oyster broth ramen.👊🏻 Umami, creamy and intensely flavoured with the shellfish. Good on its own and also good with the squeeze of lemon. I recommend some before the lemon and some after. From the point of flavour intensity as an oyster based broth, this was ahead of the oyster paitan bowl from Konjiki Hototogisu. 

Even with splashes of the Lemosco, it was good eating. If anyone was wondering,  that's a lemony/yuzu-y sauce with a bit of heat - like a lemon Tabasco.

We also came across one of the better if not best hamu katsu in town. Thick with a proper panko crust. This was so much better than the one at Hakata Yakitori Batten Yokatoh.

Revisiting Joo Chiat Beef Noodle (如切牛腩面),

Came back for more stuff Joo Chiat Beef Noodle at Zion Riverside Food Centre. No we didn't get the cow penis. This was a bowl of dry kuey teow with tripe. Tripe was pretty tender and a little chewy. Random thought : why is isn't this place called Zion Canalside Food Centre instead?

We did get tendon this time as well in soup kuey teow. That broth tasted like bak kut teh/zhu zha tang (猪什汤) rather than beef noodle soup. Which is odd because I could have sworn that the broth was from the pot of boiling beef parts.

That's their rendition of 红油抄手. Not exactly has how I imagined but it was a pretty decent eat if not identical to those chilli oil dumplings that are found in Chinese restaurants. There's toasted chilli and some vinegar. Couldn't identify the meat stuffings so I'm assuming it's pork.

Economy Snacks (经济小吃), Telok Blangah Crescent Food Centre

Noticed this stall (#01-124 Telok Blangah Crescent Market & Food Centre, 11 Telok Blangah Crescent) selling economy bee hoon the last time we were at this food centre. Made a mental note to come back and here we were.

Pretty decent bee hoon. Love those fried eggs without crispy borders. Luncheon meat was unusually peppery. Chilli's slightly sweet and a little spicy. Definitely don't mind coming back again.

Burnt Cone Gelato, Sunset Way

Some stuff from a happenstance dive into Burnt Cone Gelato (#01-02, 105 Clementi Street 12, tel : +65 9711 1097) while seeking refuge from the rain.

Got ourselves dirty matcha and ube latte. The former wasn't memorable on the account of the ratio of ingredients. A bit too much milk for the amount of matcha and coffee which made it feel....somewhat frivolous. The ube latte? Has that expected yam/sweet potato flavour and was milky.

There's waffles on menu - freshly made, eggy and delicious with the bit of crisp on the edges. Here's one topped with a scoop of ube and a chrysanthemum with goji berry gelato. As I can recall with my limited experience, I haven't had any bad chrysanthemum gelato. This one was nice too.

Yan Ji Gourmet by Good Earth (炎记品味海鲜汤)

This revisit to Yan Ji was prompted, kinda, by the recent eat at Jia Li Seafood Soup. We were pretty sure that Yan Ji has a better tasting broth and wanted to...well, confirm if we remembered it correctly. Too many gaslights around lately. I never realized that they were branded Yan Ji Gourmet by Good Earth until recently. Anyways......

These couple of bowls featured toman/snakehead and milkfish belly. The snakehead (bottom) one had a sweeter broth but the milkfish belly (top) had more flavour. In any case, both blew the broth from Jia Li out of their water. 😂 More umami, sweet and roundedness in the finish. Yan Ji was just so much more satisfying.

Their pumpkin rice was dry and beady, flavoured largely by dried shrimp. Add chilli sauce for an awesome eat but otherwise, I wouldn't bother getting this again.