Muslim Food Stall, Bukit Merah View Hawker Centre

What a name. 😅 Couldn't get any more generic and also a proverbial needle in the haystack to Google for. Anyways, we noticed Muslim Food Stall (#01-67 Bukit Merah View Hawker Centre, 115 Bukit Merah View) and their lontong in our previous visits and I told myself I needed to come back and get one. And it was delicious. Lemak, sweet and savoury at the same time with tender vegetables. Begedil's added on and I asked for extra serunding. Will be back for more.

The Vermilion House, Marina Square

Never heard of The Vermilion House (#02-03/04 Marina Square, 6 Raffles Boulevard, tel : +65 8768 5368) until recently but apparently, they've been around for a couple of years. Folks here were friendly and enthusiastically shared that their ingredients are imported from Italy. Pretty sure not all of them are but that's not important.

We ordered their deep fried burrata. Panko crusted in a marinara sauce

Tasted pretty much like how it looked or how burrata normally is - creamy and milky. Plus fried breaded crust.

That's lemon pesto risotto with nicely seared prawns. Flavour was a mixture of pesto and seafood in the rice but I couldn't detect any lemon. I tried.

Then their signature rigatoni with what they described as aged brandy cream. Don't know if it was the brandy or the cream that was aged. Was looking forward to that brandy cream and was disappointed that the flavour barely registered. So much for ageing. This ended up being carbonara-ish. The salty pancetta was masking what little faint flavour there was in the sauce.

The lamb chops looked good and had a nice amount of fat. For some strange reasons, there was little flavour from the lamb. Tasted like beef tenderloin. Even the fat had very little flavour. How the...? 🤔 Pity because we liked everything about it except for the missing lamb flavour.

Food was not bad as a whole. Flavours were just off the mark based on expectations that were trying to reconcile with what was described.

Hjh Maimunah Mini, Food Republic @ City Square Mall

Food Republic has shifted to the basement at City Square Mall (B3-04 City Square Mall, 180 Kitchener Road). I just realized Hajah Maimunah's stall over there has been called Hjh Maimunah Mini and it's been so since the last time I was there in their previous location. 

Food's great as usual. Paru belado, sayur lodeh, begedil, quail eggs and a generous helping of serunding - which came with their ever reliable melange of savoury, sweet, tangy and warm spiciness. Today's begedil seemed to be more creamy than I remember them.

Got an ikan bakar on the side. Dry-ish meat and I think too much bones for me to deal with so I'm not getting it the next time.

Shiok Burger (新奇汉堡), Raffles City

Noticed Shiok Burger (#B1-79 Raffles City, 252 North Bridge Road) the previous times we were here and curiosity got the better of us. Couldn't find any info about their origins so I'm assuming that while the food appears to be Chinese themed, they're local.

One can choose cheesy beef fries as part of their sets. The passionfruit soda has a taste of artificial flavouring.

Didn't realized that their buns weren't the regular kind. These were like flatbread/pita. Ang moh rou jia mo. 😬 I liked that those black sesame studded in the buns imparted some of their aroma.

Their beef burger uses wagyu. According to them. I'm also not aware how little wagyu needs to be in that patty content for a business to legally be able to state so. As far as I can tell it's beef but I'm not sure what else was in it because it did not taste like a 100% beef. Much less wagyu. The mala sauce that made it was kinda nice and tangy.

Said mala sauce works better with the chicken methinks. Don't think I'll ever get the beef burger again but I not against revisiting the chicken one.

The $7 bowl from Sheng Ji Fishball Noodle (昇記)

Previously, I kinda griped over how small the regular portion of noodles was at Sheng Ji. I decided to go big this time with 加面 and 加料. The amount was substantially increased. Pretty sure this was more than doubled from then. But this bowl didn't feel as satisfying as the one before. Noodle texture wasn't as firm for one. Maybe good things do need to come in smaller packages. 🙃

Re-visiting Jane Deer (简鹿糖水铺)

Back at Jane Deer.

Got ourselves a double skin milk (双皮奶) today. Sweet and creamy. Not bad. I don't know if they're made the same way but just for the record, I rank the one at the defunct Honeymoon Dessert higher.

I've been curious about their durian toast since the last time. Did not expect it to look almost identical with their cheese toast. Why the similarity? Because this durian toast was covered with a layer of cheese.

Loads of durian puree inside. I can't identify the type but it did not seem to taste the same as the ones we had with the egglets previously. I think it unlikely that they'd have different batches/quality of durian puree for different items though. Not bad tasting.

Lemon tea's good.