Scrambled Egg Rice Keisuke, Bugis+

This spot (#04-01 Bugis+, 201 Victoria Street) has been held by Keisuke for a while now. It was originally their omu rice shop which later became their aburi kaisendon shop. Both of which I've never eaten at. I wanted to try their kaisendon today but discovered that it has become Scrambled Egg Rice Keisuke. The concepts that gestate here appears transient not by design. 

Anyways, I liked it. It's comfort food. The base item is a bowl of scrambled egg on top of rice. One can add toppings. This bowl that I've gotten has atsugiri ham cutlet (which was the same thing I had at Keisuke Plus but smaller) and aburi mentaiko with cheese. Ham's salty and a little smoky. Don't mind coming back.

Hong Kong Jin Tian (香港錦田), Havelock Road Food Centre

Been quite a long while since I last got food from Hong Kong Jin Tian. The last time I did, might have been when they were still operating along Jalan Bukit Ho Swee. Their current premise is at Havelock Road Food Centre (#01-03 Havelock Road Cooked Food Centre, 22A Havelock Road).

This was takeaway with char siew, duck breast and duck liver. Some thoughts - char siew was dry-ish though not tough. Duck breast was pleasantly tender but there's bits of bone on some ends. The kailan was not fibrous like last time. Rice was moist and tender. Not bad as a whole.

Song Fa Signatures (松發家己人), Paragon

Song Fa, the bak kut teh brand has a new restaurant at Paragon (B1-06 Paragon, 90 Orchard Road) that...have expanded on their offerings beyond their regular bak kut teh shops.

We had sliced snakehead bak kut teh. Basically slices of the fish in bak kut teh broth just like what we had previously. Fish appeared to be much softer than what I know of snakehead. This was reminiscent of dory. Just not as mushy. Not bad though.

Much prefer the pig's stomach in chicken soup which had a more robust flavour and peppery kick. Tripe was tender and chewy. The broth in one was much more satisfying then the fish bkt.

Pickled mustard/kiam chye.

There's a signature pig's trotter fried rice. This was basically like the fried rice version of pig's trotter bee hoon. Pretty decent.

Teochew orh nee crème brulée. In between the top caramelized layer of sugar shell and bottom layer of custard, was orh nee. Tasted like how it sounded. 

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.