Ubi Thai Kitchen, Ubi

This stall (1st Stop Food Junction coffeeshop, Blk 3014 Ubi Road 1) which sells an assortment of Thai stir fry dishes with rice/noodles is just next door to Mei Mei Roast. This was their stir fried maggi/mama. That's instant noodles to you for anyone not from this part of the world. Sauce was a little sweet, still savoury and I like it! Pity about those bland little shrimps.

A few days later......

Stir fried minced pork with petai. Not bad tasting. It was less spicy than I had imagined after seeing the chillis. The stink beans weren't particularly strong tasting here. Love that they're pretty generous with their portion of minced pork.

Jeong's Jjajang, Killiney Road

Have heard of Jeong's Jjajang (75 Killiney Road, tel : +65 9832 1525) being mentioned so we're here to try the food.

Some peach makgeolli while waiting.

Jjajangmyeon was fine. The sauce was savoury sweet and onion-y. While we didn't think badly of this, I'm also thinking that I prefer the ones from O.BBa Jjajang and Wonderful Bapsang.

Decent kimchi bokkeumbap. This tasted like kimchi integrated with fried rice rather than kimchi fried rice if that makes sense.

Not bad kimchi jjigae.

Their mandus rocked!🤘🏼 Stuffings were pork, chives and mashed tofu I think. They were also huge. These were much more memorable than the ones from Noodle Star K. Note to self: come back for the jjampong the next time because the wok hei infused broth also rocks!

Cheese Board from Queic

Cheese Board from Queic - a less expensive way to try some of their cheesecakes. From the left, it's the Gruyere, Brie, Valençay and Stilton; each named after the cheese they're made from. Don't know if the arrangement is by design - the one with the most salted flavour was from the left and becomes decreasingly salted with increasing sweetness towards the right.

I liked all of them. Without exception, they were a mixture of creamy salted sweetness that was much lighter than the looks suggested. The ones with slightly funky flavour were the Valençay and Stilton; goat and blue cheese respectively.

2280 + smash from BurgerLabo

Wah...BurgerLabo ran out of milkshake on a Saturday evening!

So I took a page from Ken Loon on their IG and made a 2280 version with an additional smashed patty. No sauce, no onions.

Just beef and cheese. Awesome! You know what could have made it awesome-er? Finely diced onions like those from McD's double cheeseburgers.

What's with Smiths Fish & Chips

Feelings were a little mixed this time. Not long back, Smiths announced a wind up, citing unsustainable rising costs as the reason for closing shop. But it seems that closure has been postponed till July. The food here isn't cheap. At the prices they've been going at and for the duration they've been around, how have they been coping all these time?

There's house made lemonade which we've never noticed before. Very lightly sweetened and also pretty expensive a bottle.

Trying their spam fritters for the first time.

You know what? I like it. Deliciously salty just like...spam underneath the fried batter. No surprises here.

Got ourselves some cod and haddock & chips. The fish appears to have shrunk along with their portion of chips. At the prices they're charging, it's not making me look forward to coming back. Even though those chips today tasted exceptionally good.

I remember their giant Yorkshire pudding with onions and gravy from the last time. Liking it. 😬  

Pretty overpriced shepherd's pie considering the portions. Did not taste bad per se but wouldn't get it again considering that we can make something we consider better tasting. For what they charged, expecting double those portions would have been reasonable.

Rat's tail noodles (老鼠粉) from Liang Seng Mushroom Minced Meat Noodle (樑成香菇肉脞麵)

I was a little concerned in the past few weeks as Liang Seng had been closed from CNY with a sign that stated that they're not open with no return date. I've been here a few times and they've been closed since then. Am so glad to find them back in business again.

Rat's tail noodle today. Perhaps the last noodle type from them that I've never ordered before. I like it. Smooth and slurpy with their usual flavour profile. What's different today were the shredded lettuce that never used to be part of the bowl. 🤔