Ollella's durian kueh dada at Takashimaya's Food Fiesta 2025

We were intrigued by this sign at Ollella's booth at Takashimaya's Food Fiesta.

A box of 2.

Nice. The shredded coconut lent texture while the durian puree added flavour.

Cheese telur banjir-ed from Prata Saga Sambal Berlada

That's an egg cheese prata from Prata Saga Sambal Berlada (一, 二, 三, 四, 五, 六). I asked for mutton curry to be ladled over and that came with squiggly slivers of lamb fat. Fat that incorporated their lamb-y flavour with the cheese and spicy sweet sambal. 😋

Revisiting Din Tai Fung (鼎泰豐) @ Great World

Some recent eats from Din Tai Fung at Great World.

Da hong pao (大红袍) milk tea with peach gum. Nice. 

Pork & shrimp dumpings in spicy sesame sauce were pretty good. They've always done a good job out of their dumplings. This was married with some heat from the chilli sauce paired with nuttiness from the sesame sauce component.

What got me sold on this were the pickled mustard greens. Love the light tangy saltiness from those. And also the trio of textures from the vegetable, strips of pork and noodles.

First time having their dou miao with shredded pork. Savoury with the flavour of garlic, crunch of the pea shoots and some bite from the pork. Like. Was it us or are the dou miao slimmer these days? Not complaining. We like it this way.

These black sesame mochi xiao long bao were new. The black sesame flavour in the paste was good.

As far as I remember, their steamed layer cake has always been marked as sold out. Am pretty sure this was our first time even though it's been on the menu like forever. I wanted to know if these were on par with the Huaiyang sweet strata cake from Nanjing Impressions. They weren't. But it's good with the chocolate sauce. 

This cocoa wafer bun was a limited time item. There's chocolate wafer bits inside and the top's studded with hazelnuts. Like a steamed bun version of a Ferrero Rocher. But nicer because it's steaming hot.

Lamb chop curry and snow fungus soup from Tsui Wah (翠華)

I like this change with how Tsui Wah serves their curry lamb chops compared to the first time we had them. The curry is now separated into a bowl on the side instead of being doused over the lamb. Those lamb ribs were nicely done here. No unnecessary rosemary marinate, just good old salt to bring out the meat's intrinsic flavour.

There's snow fungus soup with pear. Think it's on a limited run. Gotta admit this was much more enjoyable than I thought.

参香肉脞面 (San Xiang Bak Chor Mee), ABC Brickworks Food Centre

Came across 参香肉脞面 (#01-132 ABC Brickworks Food Centre, 6 Jalan Bukit Merah) facing Wow Wow West and decided that their bak chor mee looked good.

This was the $6 bowl and it was enjoyable. Mee pok was a little softer than I prefer but really easy to inhale. Saucing was spicy and savoury with the zing of vinegar while those extra fried pork lard really added to the aroma. Now I know there's another stall for decent bcm here aside from Mr Meepok.

Sahebs The Indian Restaurant, Claymore Connect

Came across Sahebs (#01-01 Claymore Connect, 442 Orchard Road, tel : +65 9855 4794) recently and thought their menu looked interesting. 

Mango lassi which the menu mention had saffron that we couldn't taste any of. Pretty sweet.

This was curry leaf & shrimp popcorn. From the size of the bugs, they were more like full fledged prawn popcorn. Breaded and pretty good munching. These paired pretty well with the spicy mint/coriander chutney and that other sauce which was described as garlic cream chutney. Pretty sure the latter had yoghurt in it.

Tried their pind da saag which aside from spinach also supposedly contains mustard greens. The restaurant also mentioned fenugreek so I'm a little confused here. Flavour was earthier than the usual palak dishes, equally creamy in texture but not as rich tasting. We were recommended to eat it with makki ki roti. I don't understand why but we did.

Rara gosht was something we discovered back in Omar Shariff. Think lamb keema masala with chunks of lamb. Or a tomato-y Indian spiced lamb bolognese. Unlike the rendition from Omar Shariff, this one wasn't nutty but had a pleasant tomato flavour infused with rendered lamb fat. Nice. Those chunks of lamb in this were also pretty tender.

Tadka dal - yellow lentil stew. Looked red because of the chilli oil which was just on the surface. What's beneath looked like regular dal. This one was well done. The ghee and cumin made it. I was on the verge of disappointment when I detected bits of coriander in it but thankfully, they were sparse enough and not as intensely flavoured that I could ignore them.

Nice Kashmiri naan. 👍🏼 Maraschino cherries and cheese on the outside, crush nuts and something else on the inside. Not sure what that something else was but they reminded me of dates.

Butter naan and the previously mentioned makki ki roti.

Okay-ish saffron rice - I'm sure it was meant to go with the gravies and that would probably be the logical reason why it's very lightly salted. But I'm not impressed. I liked this the least of all the food we've ordered.

Masala chai's forgettable here. Their masala was kinda underwhelming.