KFC Breakfast Loaded Burger

Was thinking as I wrote if this post added to useless web clutter. But thank you posterity. Anyways, it's odd that the buns were cool for something assembled on order. Cool like "it wasn't microwaved long enough or at all" type of temperature. Tasted milky and cheap. Cheese wasn't melted as well. Loaded? I don't think they understand loaded. Well, another lesson learnt here.

A couple of fried rice from Sin Hoi Sai

Decently done preserved olive leaves fried rice from Sin Hoi Sai. Liked that the flavour of those olive leaves got through and the plate was not excessively greasy. There's sufficient salting which is something that shouldn't be understated. Some eggs and bean sprouts with spring onions inside as well. 

We were pleasantly surprised by their Yang Zhou fried rice. Came loaded with diced prawns and old school red dyed char siew and spring onions. Nice bit of smokiness and pretty savoury.

These two are worth coming back for.

Revisiting Din Tai Fung (鼎泰豐) @ Paragon

Trying new stuff, getting old stuff and discovering new fried rice at Paragon's Din Tai Fung.

First time trying their angled gourd and shrimp xiao long bao. The flavour in the soup was clean and sweet. Pretty lightweight compared with the regular ones that had rendered pork fat.

Pretty respectable prawn paste mid wings they do. The prawn paste wasn't as intense as say those from Sin Hoi Sai, but it's adequate and not shabby with chicken that's nicely fried. I liked that we could just slurp the meat off those bones easily.

Fried tofu with lotus roots and mushrooms seem new. Tasted kinda like how you think it would. I didn't like it because there's some Chinese celery (芹菜) in it.

Quietly, Din Tai Fung has also introduced black truffle fried rice in this outlet. Real shaven black truffle, no truffle oil. Which means while the flavour doesn't endure for long, it's not artificial. Actually, the ones at London Fat Duck and Tampopo felt like better eats. 

This steamed kaya buns were oddities. The menu mentioned Nonya kaya and it looked Hainanese. But it tasted like Nonya kaya. The brown stuff crusting the surface were coconut flakes.

ARTEASG, Raffles City

Noticed ARTEASG (#B1-04 Raffles City, 252 North Bridge Road) recently and destiny guided our feet into their shop. That cheesy mango drink was pretty heart clogging and cold.

Ok, not so much destiny than it was their wasabi fish roe egg tart that got me curious.

They were serious about the wasabi. It was a stronger hit that what I expected from an egg tart - not that I've ever had such an expectation before now. The tobiko came through too. Pretty unusual combination which was new yet familiar.

This was their mien mien ice (绵绵冰). This was the one with sea salt cheese and green grapes. Has the same cheese foam thing as the cheesy mango shake thingy on milky shaven ice topped with...ice cream? Kinda bingsu-ish. Buried at the bottom was purple rice. The grapes weren't as citrus-y as I imagined and I was imagining Shine Muscat because they looked like those.

One week later......

Love the bubbly lychee Americano. Tasted like it sounded - lychee sweetness with bubbles like razor down the throat in thick iced coffee. Nice.

Antioxidant cheese yoghurt with mixed berries. Salty cheese foam layered over berry flavoured yoghurt slushy thingy. Not bad. Kinda like ice blended Yakult with cream and salt.

Revisiting Shenton Way Golden Bridge Roasted Chicken Rice (珊頓道金橋燒臘雞飯)

Back at Shenton Way Golden Bridge Roasted Chicken Rice. So I noticed that the slices of char siew which I've gotten today didn't seem to taste as much of that fermented bean sauce as the last time. Guess it's luck of the draw kinda thing depending on how much marinate stuck to the portion that was sliced out.

Tender roast pork that was falling apart. The crackling was crispy. Can opt for chicken rice (油饭) with roast pork which was what we got today.

Breakfast at Chinatown

From Jia Ji Mei Shi.