Back with roasted birds at Tong Kee and their stoner lad taking orders

Today's experience with Tong Kee was kinda mediocre.

We asked if they could debone the chicken and the stoner kid taking orders said they could. We ordered three portions of thigh and drumstick deboned. We asked for some eggs with that order as well. Chicken came with bones. 🤨

For some reasons, he forgot to relay our order of eggs. 😒

Today's rice was dry-ish, clumpy and waxy. 😮‍💨 Not the standard that I remember from them. Good thing there was their smoky sweet sauce and lime-y chilli to get me through.

Cai png from the food court at Oxley Bizhub

Hmmm...pretty good value mixed vegetable rice for $5. Bitter gourd egg, fried chicken and 四川菜 pork. I liked the reduced bitter in the bitter gourd. This came from the same stall as this by the way.

Revisiting A-One Signature

Been some years since we last ate at A-One Signature.

Their salted egg, century egg and minced pork porridge was decent tasting. There's a baseline umami since all their porridges have dried scallops in them. Any other ingredient or topping typically adds to that. A couple of things could have been improved methinks. More minced pork would be great. One thing that bothered me was the quality of century eggs that they used which was pungent and had an gelatinous texture...even for the yolk.

Also decent quality olive fried rice with minced meat. Smoky, savoury and all. They even use real bits of char siew. What this needed was more of the preserved olive leaves which the fried rice is named after. We've had a number of these (ichi, ni, san, shi) and this was probably the one with the weakest flavour from those preserved olive leaves.

Kyoto Ramen Hachicken, Chinatown Point

Chicken broth ramen shop that is sister to a renown poultry specialist brand, Hachikian, from Kyoto. Opened in Chinatown Point (#01-51 Chinatown Point, 133 New Bridge Road, tel : +65 8362 0064) earlier in the year.

This was a limited time tan tan noodle. Pleasant nutty and creamy broth with some heat from the chilli oils and I thought I detected a faint Sichuan peppercorn flavour or something similar. Initially felt the broth to be a little thin but came to realise as I ate, that the consistency/intensity made it very drinkable till the end. Bean sprouts were not entirely cooked and had some of that raw-ish taste still. 

Yuzu shio bowl was lightweight savoury. Not much of yuzu flavour. Chicken balls were quite tender and I thought I detected a faint ginger taste in them. 

More lunch from Fish & Bones

The burger's no longer available at Fish & Bones for lunch. It's...regular Korean food now.

Banchan's refillable. The one with cucumber was refreshing. Bean sprouts have a nice sesame oil flavour. Kimchi's kinda young-ish without the tang I was hoping for.

Hoedeopbap - there's salmon and a white fish which I think might be halibut. Fish here is kinda chewy.

I think this is their gochujang. Didn't taste like most gochujang. Not as beany, tasted more fruity and also more refreshing.

Those vegetables aren't great for mixing. Too bulky and doesn't wilt. Didn't dislike the hoedeopbap but I don't think I'll get it again.

Don't think we've had Korean abalone porridge before. I was expecting something abalone-y but it did not taste like abalone. Tasted like...something we can get from Ah Chiang. 😂 I'm not sure what I'm tasting here.

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.

Decent miso marinated hamachi collar.

Lontong Sedap, Margaret Drive Hawker Centre

I've previously had the lontong from Lontong Sedap (#01-25 Margaret Drive Hawker Centre, 38A Margaret Drive) back in their old premise at Tanglin Halt Food Centre. Got a nasi lemak for breakfast today. Did I detect a faint lemongrass flavour in the rice? Anyways, pretty decent plate with standard quality ingredients. Rice was moist and savoury with some coconut richness. Sambal's sweet but not annoyingly so with heat and infused with ikan bilis flavour.