Zhen Wei Kitchen (珍味小厨), Bukit Timah Interim Food Centre

Zhen Wei Kitchen (#01-008 Bukit Timah Interim Food Centre, Jalan Jurong Kechil) is apparently another "ex Din Tai Fung story". These shops that are set up by ex DTF chefs always have standards that are close but never the same. Decent fried rice with luncheon meat there. Don't mind coming back if I'm in the vicinity.

Revisiting Murugan Idli Veg. Restaurant

Back for another breakfast at Murugan Idli Veg. Restaurant. Seems like they're flavouring up the traditional varieties of rice flour cakes at the restaurant which weren't available in the past.

The vaunted addictively tasty ghee podi idli has a new variety called... *Junna drumroll*......ghee garlic podi idli. Nice this one. 👍🏼 It's reminiscent of garlic bread. Garlicky and buttery with warm spices.

Ghee uttapam - possibly my first plain uttapam. With ghee 😬. Nice buttery saltiness in this one.

This was a ghee mudakkathan podi dosai. Mudakkathan is balloon vine or cardiospermum halicacabum, a plant/herb used as remedy for various ailments. In this case, the herb was dried, powdered and added into the batter of the dosai. Since there was already the spicy salty podi and delicious ghee, I couldn't tell if the mudakkathan had any particular flavour. Pretty sure I'm not getting measurable health benefits from this one dosai.

First time getting coffee here. Not the deep and robust kind I normally prefer. This one's pretty milky.

Maggie goreng extra mutton from Ya-Mahyuddin Al-Jailani

Back at Ya-Mahyuddin Al-Jailani and having another go at their maggi goreng. This time with extra mutton like I said I wanted to. The obvious difference for this plate today was the fried egg - this wasn't the same fried egg as the last time. This one was better. And the extra mutton did make significant difference in the flavour. This will be the way when I get noodles goreng here the next time.

Caffe Italia, UE Square

New-ish Italian bar/restaurant (#01-15/16 UE Square, 81 Clemenceau Avenue, tel : +65 9895 6857) which took over the spot where District 10 used to be at for the longest time. The unique value proposition here (😂) was conveyor belt tapas - something some people have breathed that could be a first in the world. 

Not that it mattered. Don't expect variety that people are used to expecting in conveyor belt sushi. Nothing in particular looked good enough that we wanted to reach out to grab a plate anyways.

Loads of tanginess from the mustard and capers in their beef tartare. It's their rendition and admittedly not a bad one.

I ordered their pizza pineapple to spite all the people in the world who thinks that pineapple on pizza is wrong. Just kidding. I just wanted some hot pineapple on pizza. 😏

These things cool pretty fast and the mozzarella hardens when that happens. Flavour on the pizza was citrus sweetness from the pineapple, milkiness from the mozzarella and some bit of smokiness from the Scamorza. Decent crust.

These was supposed to be cacio e pepe with mushrooms. Did not look or taste like cacio e pepe. Tasted like pasta with a cream of mushroom sauce that was Campbell-esque. That being said, it did not taste bad. But it's not cacio e pepe. 

初二 at Sin Hoi Sai

We've been wanting to come back to Sin Hoi Sai for this sambal petai & seafood bee hoon combo since they got our orders wrong the last time. It's finally happened. 😬

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What we realized from the restaurant today was that there could have been up to 5 different chefs in the kitchen that makes this bee hoon and each plate could end up being a little different even though it's the same recipe. But the flavour's as we remembered and that was what's important. Yes we love it with their sambal petai.

Riaz Nasi Kandar, Serangoon Road

Riaz Nasi Kandar (330 Serangoon Road) is at the traffic intersection just outside City Square Mall - less than a minute's trot from Kalam Restaurant and Dindigul Thalappakatti Restaurant. Used to be Komala's years ago before it was replace by one of the outpost of the ABC Nasi Kandar chain which mysteriously subsequently shuttered all their branches some months back.

Vadai and idli were not bad. Delicious and definitely satisfying with the spiced chutney and dal. This was at the thereabouts of 9am so everything could still be considered freshly made. I actually enjoyed the green coriander flavoured chutney. 

No complains about the podi idli.

Tried their sarang burung special prata. These from what I understand are a style of roti prata/canai that originated from Malaysia and appear to have made the menu of the local stalls and gotten a bit of attenion in the recent couple of years. 

The prata is shaped into a ring with a couple of sunny side ups and mutton keema in the middle. Not bad tasting. Sambal on the side was sweet-ish and infused with flavour from ikan bilis. Noticed that this place provides the dollop of sambal by default. 

Sadly, both their teh halia and masala tea have pretty weak spice infusion. The tea's pleasantly sweet and milky though.