Steamed rice with Chinese sausage from Treasures Yi Dian Xin (一点心)

Tried this from Treasures Yi Dian Xin. The toppings were a mixture of Chinese sausage and waxed meat. There's preserved pork belly aside from the regular and liver lup cheong. The proportion of meat to rice was definitely imbalanced. Too much meat for too little rice. I know right? Not bad tasting this was but I recall the sausage rice from Ser Wong Fun with more fondness.

Chee cheong fun at Yip's again and Modern Old School (现代vs老派)

This was the third unsuccessful attempt at getting the glutinous rice for breakfast at Yip Economical Bee Hoon so I ended up with chee cheong fun. As with the previous two tries, there always seemed to be a portion left when I'm checking the stall out. By the time it's my turn, the last of it will be gone. 😓

Normally aren't into fried eggs with browned edges because most of them are chewy and taste of oil. These ones from Yip today were freshly fried and crispy. And I enjoyed it. Yeap, 'ones' because there's two of them and I've just realized that the picture doesn't capture both eggs. 😬

Note to self : the kopi di lo from this stall (#01-31 Bukit Merah View Hawker Centre, 115 Bukit Merah View) was pretty decent. Sweet, milky and sufficiently robust. Kinda Toast Box standards or thereabouts. I might have had it once previously and uncharacteristically forgotten about them. This will be the stall for coffee the next time we're here.

Ming Fa Fishball (明發鱼圓), Tekka Food Centre

I've noticed this stall (#01-304 Tekka Market & Food Centre, 665 Buffalo Road) in my visits to Tekka Market and have wondered. It was only today when I've finally gotten a bowl of their mushroom minced meat noodle when I realized that this was Ming Fa Fishball, as compared to Ming Fa at Thompson Road. Same same but different.

The bak chor mee was $4.50 here where prices at the Thompson shop ranges from $6.00-8.50 depending on the size of the bowl that is chosen.

Why the difference in pricing you might wonder? There were no fishballs (ironic innit?), no prawns and no pig's liver in this bowl. The one at Thompson has no fried dumpling (which I actually don't care for). This bowl was put together with decent quality ingredients but the texture of their mee pok wasn't what I preferred. Which is...intrinsically a sizeable piece of the holistic take on enjoying a bowl of bcm for me.

Pork Belly Rice (老祖宗卤肉饭), Ubi Road

This stall is located at the ground floor of a building call Zevrex (8 Ubi Road 2). Food's an unusual mix of lu rou fan and bánh mì and gỏi cuốn. Flavour of the braising sauce in the lu rou fan was kinda thin and their rice wasn't the short grained variety. Not impressive.

Shirinashi Tantan Men from Keisuke Plus

Trying the tantanmen (Japanese 担担面 if anyone's still wondering) at Keisuke Plus. Not much surprises here with the sesame/nutty flavour profile with a bit of heat that hummed in the sauce. A bit of extra chilli oil and discreet splashes of vinegar gives it dimension.

While there aren't surprises, I did not expect that the crushed nuts that was used in the noodles included almonds. That's the first time I'm seeing them in these noodles. Could actually taste the nut through all the flavours.

Aneka Ulam, C&L Cafe @ UB. One

This stall was just next door to the Soon Soon (顺顺古早味) chicken rice stall at C&L Cafe (81 Ubi Avenue 4). I was told that their nasi lemak was good and it turned out to be true. Sambal tasted of ikan bilis and it had some nice heat with a sweetness that I didn't dislike. Serunding was nicely spiced. The only thing that I didn't think much of were the fried chicken wings which weren't freshly done and pretty ordinary tasting.

In retrospect, the stuff in there was more suitable for nasi padang because of all the clamouring flavours which kinda distracted from the rice. I'll choose more wisely the next time.