Outlet exclusives and nostalgia at PS. Cafe Paragon

How should I begin? PS. Cafe has outlet exclusives which are dishes that are only served in respective outlets. They're also currently reviving a series of previous limited edition dishes as part of their 25th anniversary. We came to the branch at Paragon for their outlet exclusives, getting a blast from their past and I'm embracing my personal nostalgia with them.

But first a honey milk latte. I was almost ready to write it off but it was actually kinda nice with decent coffee layered with flavour from honey.

One of the two outlet exclusives here is their Original Laksa Leaf Pesto - spaghettini with king prawns, fishcake and sambal Kenya beans. Noodles were tossed in a sauce of cream with laksa leaves and something tangy I couldn't put a finger on. Prawns were pretty tasty and so were those sour and spicy sambal Kenya beans. Not bad if I might say so.

The other outlet exclusive was their turkey cranberry sandwich. Remember that one? My nostalgia. It's still around. From my virgin PS. Cafe experience like 18 years ago. I cannot be sure if it tasted similar but I thought it did. I still love this. Smoked turkey, mozzerella and bacon bits rounded up with mayo & cranberry jam between buttered bread.

Said cranberry jam also made salad on the side less boring. 😏

So that's the lemon steamed pudding. Apparently from 2009. Same kind of pudding as their ginger one with earl grey sauce and sticky date ones; both of which I've had a number of times and have somehow not talked about in this blog. 😳 Anyways, sweet and lemony and I like it like the other two.

Milky pickled vegetable soup noodle from GO Noodle House

Came across the milky pickled vegetable (奶香酸菜) broth option from GO Noodle House recently. Got a bowl with sliced fish and beef tendon. It's pretty darn good with the salty tanginess from those pickled mustard, some creaminess and a bit of heat that left a prickle down the throat. Will come back for more.

Surrey Hills Grocer, Raffles City

Stopped by Surrey Hills Grocer (#03-42 Raffles City, 252 North Bridge Road, tel : +65 8332 1024) for...sweets.

Maple bacon twist was not bad with the maple sweetness and salty thing going on. Those cinnamon donut balls on the other hand were a little hard and dry. I was thinking they might have warmed these up since we were eating in but I guess it did not bother Surrey Hills Grocer that someones out there were getting fried bread that's cold, a little stale and not exactly in the best way experienced.

Really? I'm not feeling it.

This coconut lime tart was pretty good. Lemon curd tangy sweetness and bitters from the lime on a buttery crust. Not so different from PS. Cafe's key lime pie.

The Mini Pecan Manuka Matchabon at Cinnabon and the...

We've been missing the Bon Of The Week from Cinnabon mostly because I never knew that there was a list for them. The last we had was the mini maple blueberrybon. We came across this mini pecan Manuka matchabon by chance. A mouthful of a name.

Much better than I imagined. You could taste that Manuka honey along with a noticeable hint of bitter from the matcha kneaded into the rolls. Nice this one. 👍🏼

Never been into Biscoff flavoured stuff much but this flavour works for their buttery mini Biscoff cookie butterbon. Another nice one.

Meet 4 Meat, Ubi Crescent

Meet 4 Meat at East Coast Road is no longer in business. This outlet (#01-05 Excalibur Centre, 71 Ubi Crescent, tel  : +65 8290 3605) is their only other one around.

I was curious about their Burger Wellington from the last time, having the idea that it was an entire cheese burger encased in the pastry.

Turned out that it was just the meat patty, cheese and onions. No bread, no pickles. Pastry crust was more buttery than I remember of their Beef Wellington. Not much different from a meat pie here and not bad tasting also. Fries were nice and crispy on the surface.

Mensho Tokyo, Raffles City

Finally got around to Mensho Tokyo (#03-43 Raffles City, 252 North Bridge Road, tel  : +65 8380 8467). I was initially excited about them opening up because of the lamb ramen I've read about in Tokyo but apparently they aren't doing any of that here.

Got some stuff from their menu which sounded like they were worth trying. Like their A5 Miyazaki wagyu caviar sushi which was actually pretty good.

Aji fry has a solid crispy breading and good quality fish beneath.

Not a fan of their signature tori paitan bowl. I've had a few tori paitan before and this tasted like none of it. This was heavier, grittier and had more going on than the other renditions like say Brothers Ramen or Marutama which I prefer. I also thought I tasted something like mushrooms and detected a sweetness that bothered me a little. Don't think I'll get it again. 

The matcha duck bowl was another thing though. It looked and smelled a little like matcha latte. I have been looking forward to this since reading about it.

I love how the matcha was present in the broth without overpowering the savouriness of the base broth. Love the meatiness in the smooth thin slices of duck. Loved the vegetal sweetness from the torched chunks of negi. Thick curly noodles were nice and chewy. Those were what I enjoyed about this bowl.

Here's evidence of how much we liked it. Will come back for this.