HJ Waliti HJ Mazuki, Haig Road Food Centre

I've been wanting get a bowl of soto anika from HJ Waliti HJ Mazuki (#01-18 Haig Road Food Centre, 14 Haig Road) for a while and that finally happened. For the uninitiated, it's soto ayam + bits of beef and tripe. Broth was kickass with the chilli. Not a fan of the stringy chicken or beef but the tripe's tender and delicious. There's soto babat on the menu so I know what I will be going for the next time.

Otah's decent.

The larger green butterfly at Tai Wah Cooked Food

I did not realized that Tai Wah Cooked food makes larger than their usual pandan butterfly until now. These costed $1.20 instead of $1. Don't know exactly how much bigger they were but I'm guessing that it wasn't significant because I barely noticed. It was only brought to my attention when I was paying and the proprietor asked if it was okay if he gave me the larger ones because the regular ones were out.

Chicken pulao from Pakistani Dum Biryani Sg

Finally got my hands on the pulao from Pakistani Dum Biryani Sg. This one's chicken - came with two tender drumsticks. In spite of appearances, the drumsticks were moist and easily removed from the bone. The difference between their biryani and the pulao was that the latter did not pack heat from the spices in the rice. It was still deliciously savoury which I inhaled in short order. 

More breakfast at Komala Vilas

Another breakfast at Komala Vilas (一, 二, 三, 四, 五, 六, 七, 八). 

I wanted to see how their parotta was like compared to the local prata. Turned out that it was pretty similar except that it wasn't as oily. Crisp on the outside and kinda fluffed up. The insides weren't as chewy though - these were a bit harder. Served with their korma which we've had once or twice or more previously.

Their samosa looked attractively gnarly. Yeah, that's a description there.

Mostly potatoes inside. Tasted much like curry puffs but more fun with some of those chutney.

Warabimochi Kamakura, Taste Orchard

For a while, I had been wondering how long it might be that we'd have to gaze wistfully at the queues before getting a taste of Warabimochi Kamakura whenever we were at One Holland Village. Turned out that we jumped into a pretty fast moving queue at their new outlet at Taste Orchard (#01-02 Taste Orchard, 160 Orchard Road) and landed ourselves a box and a couple of their beverages.

Coffee's decent. Sugarless with bits of sweetened warabi mochi in it. What impressed me more was the matcha lemonade which featured sweet lemony warabi mochi in green tea. Refreshing.

As far as I can unreliably recall, their warabi mochi were a bit more tender then those that one can sometimes get during the food fairs at Isetan. Kinako is kinako and kuromitsu is kuromitsu. The only variable here is likely the texture of these things and that being said, I can understand why they're popular. 

Ming Fa (明發), Upper Thomson Road

Was looking forward to Ming Fa (46B Upper Thomson Road, tel : +65 6455 4890). They're a local brand for bak chor mee that's been around for years and have never tried their noodles until now.

Middle sized bowl of the mushroom minced meat noodle. That's when the prawn makes appearances. The small bowl doesn't have prawns it seems. I'm guess we get one more for the large?

Anyways, I enjoyed this bak chor mee. Saucing was adequate that all the noodles were well coated and the toppings were of pretty decent quality. Sambal didn't pack a great deal of heat. What stood out were the meatballs. They didn't look hand made but also weren't the generic factory versions as well. These were larger...perhaps customized.

Coffee's sour-ish and not good. No more the next time.