More rolls from Cinnabon

The hot mochi inside was sticky soft and kinda nice with the pistachio cream for this roll.

Peanut buttery and chocolate-y at the same time. Pretty good.

Prawn noodle from Sin Kian Heng Minced Meat Noodle (新建興肉脞面)

Noticed someone eating prawn noodles the last time we were here so we decided to try it today. They were out of the bigger prawns today so we couldn't get those.

Soup from the dry prawn noodles came with an assortment of pork parts like ribs, lard and sweet intestines. Bowl's oil rich and pretty tasty.

Some of the prawns were pretty tiny.

Mee pok portion was kinda puny as well. Flavour's not lacking from the saucing and chilli for sure though.

Kosong + extra egg from Shiok Hokkien Mee

 

That'll be extra chilli on the side as well. Shiok Hokkien Mee has a kosong option which omits the proteins normally included in each plate...namely the prawns, squid and pork belly. Flavour's as good as the regular plate.

Italian Osteria X, Crawford Lane

Read about Italian Osteria X (#01-09, 463 Crawford Lane) and the quality food they serve at good prices. Allegedly. We were curious and wanted to find out.

Eatery's a one man show.

Ordered some salumi. Prosciutto, salami and coppa I think.

Not bad cold cuts. Pretty good eating with their bread Don't know what the dry crumbly hard cheese was though. Did not taste exactly like Parmigiano Reggiano. Proprietor doesn't know what cheese it was as well.

I don't know exactly what bread it was they did. It was served piping hot with pretty soft chewy innards. Tasted half baked. I liked it. But there wasn't enough to go around. Even after we asked for more.

Risotto Milanese has a few main flavours from their ingredients that's prominent. Saffron is the most obvious. Secondary to that is cheese/butter which provides the richness and salt in the stock for the rice. Following that is diced onions. Kinda easy to tell if any of those are inadequate. 

This one tasted like a saffron porridge, not so much risotto. Stock lacked robustness and salt. Not enough cheese or cream so it was also a little thin. Thinking about how much more enjoyable places like La Nonna, No Menu or the defunct Ristorante da Valentino makes theirs when I'm eating this one is symptomatic of how unsatisfied I am with the current, no?

Spaghetti Bolognese looked good. Flavour was livery which made me wonder if there was actual minced liver. What it lacked was salt from cheese. We asked about having more cheese and the proprietor mentioned something about cutting cost. Which is fair and fine and his right to do so. I would have preferred that he charged more and made it delicious than to scrimp over his most effective flavour agent used in cooking.

Re-revisiting Anjappar @ Race Course Road

Dinner at Anjappar (一, 二, 三, 四, 五, 六).

Rose milk was pretty sweet. That's the pink one and if anyone's actually wondering, it does taste like bandung. Sweet lassi appears to be the lesser of the evils.

Starter of tandoori prawns. Pretty good smokiness in the meaty prawns. Not bad.

Ordered their keema dosa because...keema.

But it did not contain keema. It's just curried mutton. Anjappar lied. Now we know. Chutneys were still good though.

Tandoori sea bass was decent. Not as smoky as I imagined but reasonably good eating with crisp on the skin and moist meat.

We had egg briyani. Basmati, not seeraga samba rice today. According to the menu, the spices and other flavouring in the rice comes from their mutton dum briyani. Couldn't tell if there was any difference between the rices apart from texture but both were deliciously savoury with a blanket of heat.

Hard boiled eggs beneath.

This was palak chicken...their spinach had texture that felt more hand chopped than machine blended. Loads of cream and maybe ghee/butter infusing it with a heart clogging richness. This was the closest resemblance to creamed spinach for a palak dish we ever had. 😬

Pistachio kunafa tiramisu from Sugar Mama Lah

Heard about the pistachio kunafa tiramisu from Sugar Mama Lah (Curbside Crafter, 730 North Bridge Road) and was curious if they were good.

Tasted kinda hollow. Flavour reminded me of hazelnut chocolate and there doesn't appear to be enough or any mascarpone in it. Also a little dry-ish. Now I know.