米粉面 from Liang Seng Mushroom Minced Meat Noodle (樑成香菇肉脞麵)

米粉面 at Liang Seng today. 米粉/mi fen being vermicelli. 面 = yellow noodles. Seems like the shredded lettuce is here to stay.

Nice textural combination of 米粉面 soaked in their mushroom sauce spiked with chilli.

Hao Wei Lai (好味来), Bukit Merah Central

Have walked past Hao Wei Lai (#01-3687, 165 Bukit Merah Central, tel : +65 9775 8718) numerous times and had never been curious enough to try their food until recently.

Edible fried rice with chicken & whitebait. This one was kinda damp and was devoid of any smokiness. It looked nothing like the pork chop fried rice which many of the neighbouring tables were having. Didn't hate it but will not get it again.

Kinda liked their stir fried shredded pork with dried tofu (豆干) because of the fermented bean flavour in the sauce and the 豆干. A tad more intensity with the fermented bean and salt and this would have slid from decent to awesome.

I enjoyed their broccoli for the simplicity. Just garlic and maybe light soya sauce.

Siew mai didn't leave much impressions. Probably because these weren't as delicate or flavourful as the Cantonese ones we've been used to. Will not be getting them again.

Revisiting Fook Kin

It's been a few years since we were last at Fook Kin. This restaurant has the worst online ordering UX I've ever come across to date.

Ice tea with lychee sorbet. Tea was pretty sweet, not exactly fragrant. Probably half the cup was ice. Ditto for that ice lemon tea below

Lemon tea required additional 50 cents. That's the 50 cents worth of lemon up there. Not great beverages here. Quality feels like coffeeshops that try to rip you off by giving you fillers and on top of that, restaurant prices.

Their mee pok with minced meat was pretty good tasting. Love the firm and chewy texture of the mee pok that's coated with their savoury lardy sauce. Would have been great if not for the sad portions of minced pork.

Something called wok hei fried rice with roast pork crunchies. Was hoping to at least get decent yang zhou fried rice standards but it didn't taste like that. Rice looked scorched but I'm not tasting smokiness. Roast pork mostly not crunchy. Also greasy in a way that I wasn't comfortable with.

Was initially curious by their truffle duck and momentarily wondered what ingenious rendition they might have come up with. In retrospect, it's just regular roast duck, probably just sprayed with truffle oil. Duck's dry. Not great. Not glad to be paying about $30 for an upper quarter as well.

I do not Fook Kin ❤️ this place. Here's a reminder to self, don't come back.

$5.50 mee pok from SK Noodle House

Seems confusing/inconsistent. Maybe I just don't know what I'm reading. The last time I got their $5.50 mee kia bowl, there were more toppings and no change in noodle portions. Today's $5.50 has both extra toppings and noodles. 🤔

Roast pork rice from Treasures Yi Dian Xin (一点心)

Roast pork rice from Treasures Yi Dian Xin. Delicious with mustard.

More cai png from the food court at Oxley Bizhub

More cai png from the food court at Oxley Bizhub. Also $5 like the last time. Same fried chicken, some cabbage and chopped beans with minced pork which apparently contains basil. I hadn't realise until the aniseed-y flavour came through along with a bit of heat from some chilli padi. Not bad.