Otter & Pebbles, Sinaran Drive

We've been wanting to check out Otter & Pebbles (#01-05/07 Novena Specialist Center, 8 Sinaran Drive, tel :  +65 8690 4390) for a while because some of their stuff which we spied online intrigued us.

Pineapple Americano with two extra shots on the left. Not bad tasting and packed a decent punch from both the caffeine and the fruitiness of pineapple juice. House made lychee grapefruit kombucha on the right. Noice! 👍🏼

Tried the baco mentaiko udon. Tasted much like how it looked with the creamy richness and umami from the mentaiko and seaweed. Not bad.

This was a Dutch pancake called PB & Otter. PB's prosciutto & burrata instead of peanut butter. My first Dutch pancake. Tasted much like Yorkshire pudding. So that's something I presumed to be salted maple syrup on the side. Lots of sweet and salty and creamy on top of the eggy pancake. Like. 👍🏼 

Latte with miso, caramel and wasabi. The flavour was intriguing for me in a way that made me want to go back for repeated sips. Wasabi flavouring was definitely discernible but more towards the end of the swallow and not so much in your face. Not detecting the miso though.

Otter & Pebble's soufflé pancakes are apparently a thing. Somewhat. Pistachio pancake's pretty prominently featured online. Not bad tasting also. The ice cream has more pistachio flavour than the cream. Noticed that there's another one of these with blue cheese. Curious.

One week later......

Came back for the one with blue cheese called Cheese but in Blue. The blue cheese was on the foam/cream/sauce thingy on top and brûlée-d in the middle. More of that cream in between the souffle pancakes. Blue cheese flavour not intense but discernible. Not bad this one. Vanilla ice cream on the side nice. Brown stuff was crushed Biscoff.

Double C - cold chocolate with salty cheese foam. Nice.

More food from Bangalore Cafe

Back at Bangalore Cafe for more deliciousness.

Tried their chow chow bath. If anyone was wondering, a chow chow bath is a serving that consists of a khara bath and a kesari bath. Both are semolina pudding/porridge thingys. The former is savoury and while the latter is sweet and flavoured with cardamom and saffron.

Pretty good khara bath here with cashews, onions, mustard seeds and curry leaves, flavoured also with ghee.

That's the Mysuru masala dosa - also known as Mysore masala dosa. The Mysuru/Mysore version is supposed to be a bit spicier from some chutney but these don't appear to have that. These ones were stuffed with curried potatoes (maybe the spicy chutney is in here) like regular masala dosa and had noticeably more diced onions in them. Not bad.

Holland Bar L'Operetta, Lorong Mambong

Pizzeria L'Operetta shuttered at Icon Village and re-opened as Holland Bar L'Operetta (23 Lorong Mambong) in Holland Village. I remember them doing Neapolitan pizza styled pizza in the past but it did not look like those today. Something's changed.

Meatballs were nice. Coarse ground meat with some beefy flavour.

Pasta's not great. The fettuccine with lamb ragu had a red wine-ish sauce that wasn't exactly lamb-y with meat that was lean and somewhat stringy. Frutti di mare was...boring.

So the pizzas don't look Neapolitan nor taste that way. Crust wasn't puffy and the "leopard spots" were kinda missing. Toppings were decent but that quattro formaggi needs more blue cheese. With the 1 for 1 offer they have at lunch, I couldn't complain. Wouldn't look forward to paying the full price for these.

Teochew Fishball Kway Teow Mee, Hong Lim Food Centre

This bowl happened because the stall (#02-65 Hong Lim Food Centre, 531A Upper Cross Street) looked old school and reliable. Their fishball noodle has minced and sliced pork. Not a bad tasting bowl with their saucing and chilli padi. Don't mind coming back.

Small Potatoes Make The Steak Look Bigger : Year Nineteen

This anniversary post was late because......I forgot. Happy 19th and what actually is Corvus these days? 

Curry Craft, North Bridge Road

Came across Curry Craft (#01-5041, 467 North Bridge Road). They're a stall doing Malaysian style curry noodles and yong tau foo.

They have home made achar. Not bad tasting. Their rendition includes strips of radish and long beans. Generous with the crushed peanuts too.

Tried a couple of their curry noodles. One basically picks a preferred soup (or not), noodles or rice and a protein of choice for the bowl which also comes with a raft of long beans held together by fish paste and a piece of dried beancurd sheet (tau kee). There's lamb and beef and the lamb got my attention because one doesn't normally find lamb in curry noodles here. Chilli dip on the side's sweet, sour and spicy. Nice.

Both protein were thin sliced. Lamb's nicer than the beef because the latter didn't really register much flavour as a beef. Unlike the lamb which also infused some of it's intrinsic flavour into the very drinkable savoury curry broth.

I guess this is as good a testimony as any on how much we liked it.