Hill Street Tai Hwa Pork Noodle 2025

Today's line was almost an hour despite not looking very long. More than triple the duration compared to the last time. 😬 For the first time, I experienced a confusing queue system. There were supposed to be two queues as described on the signage at front of the stall. The first is for order and the second is for collection.

The second queue doesn't exist in actuality. One joins the single queue which contains a mix of orderers and collectors. You get beckoned to head up to the front where the second queue is supposed to be when they are ready to take your order. After the order is done, you join that single queue again. I don't really understand how this works for them.

The biggest bowl is $15 now.

Still delicious. I just noticed for the first time also that their meatballs aren't the stinky kind.

Tai Hwa Pork Noodle is easily at the top of my list for bak chor mee but my frequency is probably like once every couple of years. I think. Because the location is never in the way and I typically do not enjoy squandering my life in queues. 

Revisiting NamNam

Back at NamNam.

Decent gỏi cuốn.

This be gỏi bưởi tôm thịt- I don't know how to pronounce it. It's a pomelo salad.

Pretty refreshing from the pomelo and a good squeeze of lime.

Chilled truffled wagyu phở. We swished the slices of wagyu in the broth ate them on their own. Pricey bowl but the beef was delicious.

Something called Saigon breakfast. Kinda like a deconstructed bánh mì on a hot pan with eggs, sausages, pate and some...luncheon meat? Sweetness from the sauce and caramelised onions broke the monotony of the rest of the items which I felt were a little light handed with the salt. Would have also been nice if there was more pate than that sad little scoop. Not bad tasting as a whole though.

Passionfruit lemon tea's pretty good. The other was avocado coffee which wasn't that creamy.

Mee kia from SK Noodle House

$5.50 hae mee kia from SK Noodle House. That's a dollar up from the regular portion at $4.50. Nets a bit more prawn and sliced pork. Noodle quantity does not appear to be any different.

Breakfast from Rasa Raja Bojun (රස රජ බොජුන්)

Noticed these round roti from Rasa Raja Bojun and got a couple of them for breakfast along with some quail eggs. Texture of the roti was dense, somewhat bready and lightly salted. I liked them with the lentils and spiced coconut.

Sambal for the quail eggs didn't pack a lot of heat and had a tomato-y flavour to them.

Revisiting The Stamford Brasserie

Back at The Stamford Brasserie for a dinner of pastries, savouries and sweets.

Coffee praline croissant.

Nice milky coffee cream filling inside the layered pastry. Not overly sweet too. 👍🏼

Snail pork sausage with a delicious caramelized onion gravy. Love the meaty sausage. Those creamy pappardelle-like things on top were sheets of potatoes. Tangy like a potato salad and also a little crunchy.

Seared halibut in amandine sauce was ethereal and buttery under the crispy skin.

Manjari chocolate rabbit which had an anise scented cherry compote and no rabbit meat. 😏 Not bad.

Oriental Kopi, Bugis Junction

Queue's pretty long at the local Oriental Kopi (#02-50 Bugis Junction, 200 Victoria Street). While I normally balk at joining such a queue, I ended up it it. Was about an hour before we got seated.

Iced Royal Chocolate was awesome. Thick, sweet and rich chocolate that coats the oesophagus going down.

 Ice cham cincau also pretty good tasting.

Tried their bolo bun.

The two slices of butter and shot of condensed milk goes into the hot bun.

Nice. Warm, crumbly and a sweet butteriness.

Briyani's decent. Tasted lots of raisins in the rice. What I did not enjoy of this was the rendang from the chicken which had a sweetness that threw off the savouriness of the briyani.

Deliciously savoury/salty mee hoon with their ayam berempah.

Teh's decent.

Kopi's also decent.