Saturday, March 22, 2025

Royal Spicy Dosa, Dunlop Street

Royal Spicy Dosa, Dunlop Street

Meanwhile, along the bustling of Dunlop Street not to far from Chimichanga and Bismillah Briyani is Royal Spicy Dosa (18 Dunlop Street, tel : +65 6296 1514). Indian food but with a wider breath of interpretation than the traditional shops which was also dotted with an almost overwhelming selection of parotta and dosa.

Royal Spicy Dosa, butter fried idli

That's their butter fried idly/idli. I don't know why there's "butter fried" in the name but these were idly soaked in butter and served with the common array of chutney and sambar. Hell yeah this was delicious. I'd come back just for this.

Royal Spicy Dosa, pot dum parotta mutton satti

We were curious about their pot dum parotta. Or also known as satti parotta.

Royal Spicy Dosa, pot dum parotta mutton satti

Parotta or prata in curry, covered in banana leaf and served in a clay pot. Yes, claypot prata if you would.

Royal Spicy Dosa, pot dum parotta mutton satti

One has a choice between chicken or mutton. We picked mutton. The pot also had 3 pratas and some hard boiled eggs in it so one order is large enough as sharing portion.

Royal Spicy Dosa, pot dum parotta mutton satti

Parotta was all soggy and soaked in the curry. If one were inclined towards banjir, this would be right up the alley. Not bad tasting. The claypot kept everything in it piping hot.

Royal Spicy Dosa, hot badam milk

Hot badam milk's drinkable but it's not creamy. Feels little thin and the sweetness was a little off from what I was expecting. Kinda like artificial sweetener rather than sugar kind of feel but I'm not sure what that actually was. Getting almond flavour and a good hit of cardamom from the drink though. 

Royal Spicy Dosa, Dunlop Street

Friday, March 21, 2025

合乐 (He Le), Mei Ling Food Centre

合乐 (He Le), economic bee hoon

Not bad economy bee hoon from He Le (#02-29 Mei Lin Food Centre, 159 Mei Chin Road). Fried chicken cutlets were garlicky.

合乐 (He Le), Mei Ling Food Centre

Chun Tian Economic Rice (春天什菜飯), C&L Cafe @ UB. One

Chun Tian Economic Rice (春天什菜飯), cai png

Homely cai png (菜饭) at C&L Cafe (81 Ubi Avenue 4) located at the same place that houses Aneka Ulam and Soon Soon. The proprietresses running the stall were friendly. Love that braised pork (卤肉) in a sweet savoury sauce which was made with finely sliced strips of pork belly. That unassuming fried chicken surprised me with the flavour of prawn paste.

Surprise update 18/11/2025
Chun Tian Economic Rice (春天什菜飯), cai png

Bitter gourd's pretty tender. Diced potatoes with sausages was a little peppery. Is the prawn paste flavour disappearing from the chicken?

Surprise update 27/5/2026
Chun Tian Economic Rice (春天什菜飯), cai png

$6 for this. Prices appear to have gone up a little.

Chun Tian Economic Rice (春天什菜飯), C&L Cafe @ UB. One

Thursday, March 20, 2025

More pudding from Jin Yu Man Tang Dessert Shop (金玉满堂甜品)

Jin Yu Man Tang Dessert Shop (金玉满堂甜品), black sesame double layer milk ice cream

Recently at Jin Yu Man Tang. Black sesame paste on double layer milk (黑芝麻双皮奶) with ice cream. So new on the menu that it's not on the menu.

Jin Yu Man Tang Dessert Shop (金玉满堂甜品), black sesame double layer milk ice cream

Nice milky creaminess paired up with the sweet nuttiness of black sesame. 👍🏼 

Jin Yu Man Tang Dessert Shop (金玉满堂甜品), ginger milk pudding with chrysanthemum

So we got the ginger milk pudding (姜汁撞奶) with chrysanthemum again. Nice ethereal texture from the spicy ginger milk pudding but there's definitely no chrysanthemum flavour.

Revisiting Lin Da Qiang (林大强酱蒸鱼头頭)

Lin Da Qiang (林大强酱蒸鱼头頭), Smith Street Food Centre

Lin Da Qiang has changed. It's been a number of years since the first/last time we ate here. The old couple that I remember from that time is no longer around. It's a younger pair today. Unless these two are them?! 😲 Mother of...

Lin Da Qiang (林大强酱蒸鱼头頭), beef hor fun
Lin Da Qiang (林大强酱蒸鱼头頭), sliced fish hor fun

But I think not. The black bean flavour from the gravy of their hor fun was barely discernible, not to even mention a focal, of black bean sauce. Which to me was most of the point to these dishes. Found it baffling that we could see the bits of the fermented black bean and yet, little of that flavour was in it. Not a fan at all of the tenderized beef that in spite of being tender, had also sinewy parts that were unchewable.

Lin Da Qiang (林大强酱蒸鱼头頭), salt & pepper fried prawns

Fried salt & pepper prawns were decent. Nicely fried without being excessively oily. This alone didn't salvage the situation. I still felt let down as a whole from wanting to relive the flavours which we had from the first time.

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Sliced fish soup with instant noodles from Mr Batang Fish @96

Mr Batang Fish @96, instant noodles

Got a bowl at Mr Batang today with instant noodles. Was enjoying the thick firm slices of batang and sweet cabbage in the soup while slurping noodles - and then also wondering what the hell do the folks in the crazy queue at Piao Ji know about that I didn't. 🤔