Fermented bean sauce pork trotters & dried scallop glutinous rice dumpling from Treasures Yi Dian Xin (一点心)

A couple of mention worthy items we had recently from Yi Dian Xin. Pork trotters stewed in fermented bean sauce was delicious. Mostly skin and collagen-y bits which were seeped in thick fermented bean flavour.

Tried their glutinous rice dumpling with dried scallops/conpoy/干贝. This was much larger than the regular pork glutinous rice dumplings we've had previously.

Aside from the dried scallops, there's salted egg, mung beans and pork belly inside. Rice was sticky and tender. We were told that having them with some sugar was the traditional way of eating them but I don't know any better. We tried that and I kinda liked it.

Ebisu Sando Kyoto, Takashimaya

Noticed this sando stall at Takashimaya (B2 Takashimaya, 391 Orchard Road) a while back. There were a number of savoury options but what caught our attention today were their fruit sando - specifically the one with what the stall claimed were honey mangoes from Thailand. Hell yeah these were good. I've had nothing but good experiences with mangoes in Thailand so far and this continues that trend. Sweet and suitably citrus-y paired with the light cream and soft white bread. 👍🏼

Cenzo, Club Street

Cenzo (81 Club Street, tel : +65 9155 8374) opened a couple of years back and is helmed a Drew Nocente, the force previously behind the kitchen at the defunct Salted & Hung. I was given the impression that there was a nose to tail representation they were cultivating back then but I'm not seeing that here in Cenzo. Anywayysss......

This was their vitello tonnato. The dish is traditionally Piedmontese and uses thinly sliced veal covered in tuna sauce. Cenzo's rendition uses grilled veal tongue. Damn. Fricking. Good. Nice sear going on the outside and tender on the inside.

That's lardo tigelle with truffle honey. Bread tasted freshly made and much lighter than appearances suggested. Delicious porcine meltiness with the sweetness of honey cut through with pickled fennel I think. Will be hard pressed not to want to get this again.

Pastrami sandwich's pretty good. Meat's made in house and thinly sliced - more SweetSpot. than Katz's. Layered with slaw, pickles and in between some brioche-y bread. While I understand the acid, I prefer less of it. 

Awesome pappardelle white ragu. It's a rich cream version of a pasta Bolognese minus tomato, addition of guanciale among the minced veal along with liquorice notes from fennel seeds. Served piping hot. Nice. 👍🏼

Love the prawn risotto too. Stock infusion was thick with a rich crustacean sweetness coupled with some spiciness. Luxuriant is the appropriate word here. And charred prawns. 

Hmmm....charred prawns.

So we decided that it would be tiramisu.

Not bad. 

Coffee's decent.

Would love to come back again.

Red bean paste and butter toast from Toast Box

Red bean paste and butter toast from Toast Box. Limited time thingy. Tasted much like how I thought it would but for one thing - that butter flavour was dominant compared to the red bean. Maybe more red bean paste would "correct the balance".

Crispy Mac ‘N Cheesy Wrap from McD

Latest from McD. It's pretty much the same thing as their regular breakfast wrap with the hash brown inside replaced by a fried mac & cheese patty. Visually, they looked pretty similar. Couldn't tell the difference from a glance.

Texturally, this was also similar to the regular breakfast wrap. The taste was where it mostly differed. This one has discernible nacho cheese flavour while the one with hash browns didn't and tasted like...it has hash brown. I'm not ashamed to admit that I enjoyed it. 😬

Afternoon tea promotion luncheon meat scrambled egg sandwich from Tsui Wah (翠華)

We came across Tsui Wah's afternoon tea deal by chance. 40% off a bunch of selected items between 2.30-5.30pm which included this luncheon meat and scrambled egg sandwich that normally goes for $6. It's $3.60 during said tea promotion. It was delicious. I've had them once previously from delivery order but that one was with steamed bread. This one was toasted. I maintain that one would still be hard pressed to find another same sandwich at their quality.