Spicy Megamen from Brothers Ramen

I tried to break out from the megamen at Brothers Ramen (一, 二 , 三, 四, 五, 六, 七, 八, 九, 十) but they were out of the niboshi bowl which I wanted today. So I ended up with the spicy megamen. A first time. Which I found to be "better" because there's enough broth to soak those chunky charshu in to get them moist and more tender. But I lose an egg compared to getting the dry bowl. It was an 1hr 15mins from the start of the queue to getting our bowls today. A weekday. 

Double Banana pancake from Mr. Bean

This was not nice at all. The texture of the stuffing was odd to say the least for mashed banana and I could barely tell it was from the flavour. Tasted nothing like what one would expect from goreng pisang or banana cake.

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.