Pazonia Italian Street Food, Amoy Street

Pazonia Italian Street Food (49 Amoy Street) has been mentioned a bit in the chatters lately. Mostly about their panuozzo. We walked past them on the way to Sodeng recently and I kinda decided that I wanted to check them out and made a mental note to come back.

I liked their burrata & Parma Ham panuozzo. Got this with extra balsamic glaze.

Burrata was chilled with creamy oozy innards of stracciatella like a luxuriant frosting over the salty Parma ham and peppery rockets. Not bad pizza bread. Gripes? Not tasting any of the pesto or olive oil they claim to be in there. That usually means it's either not enough or not good enough.

Their carbonara was "alla Romana". Just enough of the emulsified egg and cheese coating al dente rigatoni. Nicely done but could be improved with better quality black pepper. Love those chunks of salty/fatty/porky guanciale in there.

Go-Ang Pratunam Chicken Rice, Anchorpoint

Go-Ang Pratunam Chicken Rice has been around for some years and have a number of branches around. Having their chicken rice for the first time. Never ate at the original in Bangkok before. This was Anchorpoint (#01‬-07/08 Anchorpoint, 70 Alexandra Road, ‎tel  : +65 6470 8200).

Ice rose milk tea was pretty good - exactly like bandung with Thai tea if anyone's wondering. Roselle was decent, but it's not in the same leagues as the one from Din Tai Fung. 

Both the thigh & breast meat chicken rice were nicely done. They're similar to the local Hainanese rendition minus the drizzle of sesame/chicken oil and light soya sauce. Rice was flavoured enough to eat on its own.

Salty chicken soup and sauces. The dark one reminded me of a less viscous chee cheong fun sauce with chilli.

Not bad tasting bitter gourd with eggs - the only thing I didn't quite like was the excessive oil which were pooling at the bottom of the plate.

Sambal kang kong's competent and nothing out of the ordinary.

We liked their steamed tapioca and coconut cream dessert. Nice sweetness from tapioca and light saltiness from that cream. What we also appreciated was that those tapioca weren't fibrous.

Daddy Cuisine by Daddy BBQ, Holland Village Food Centre

We noticed Daddy Cuisine by Daddy BBQ (#01-38, Holland Village Food Centre, 1 Lorong Mambong) in recent times so I looked it up and found out that I wanted to eat at their place back when they were located at Fortune Centre known as Atas Turkish Kebab. Never got to because by the time we made our way there, they were no longer in business and we ended up eating at Mr Doner Kebab that took over that spot.

As fate would have it......

I think this was called beef kebab salad. Protein's the doner/shawarma/gyro variety shaven off the vertical spit, layered over vegetables. I liked it. Kebab wasn't dry or tough. Portion was generous to boot. I also appreciated that they didn't attempt to smother it with excessive sauces.

One week later......

This was their mixed kebab with biryani rice. Briyani version of what we had last week that has chicken also. We added cheese which isn't visible because the cheese was melted over the rice before the meats were layered on top. No surprises here. This was as enjoyable with the bed of saffron scented basmati rice.

Another week later......

We got breaded out this time round, overestimating the amount that came with our orders.

Cheese naan. Not bad tasting.

The garlic on their garlic naan was pretty sharp. 

Moussaka came with even more bread which we did not expect. The eggplant dip was lightly chilled and smokey.

Phoe’s The Bake House, Taman Abad, Johor Bahru

Came across Phoe’s The Bake House (1, Jalan Rusa 5, Taman Abad, 80250 Johor Bahru) near KSL. It looked like they were selling bakes - mostly muffins I think but they also had placards for their soya bean curd desserts that looked intriguing.

We ended up with a melon flavoured sago soya bean curd which was not bad.

And another with creamed corn. The soya bean curd itself was also corn flavoured. Also not bad.

Dapo’ Khaleeda, Taman Abad, Johor Bahru

Big breakfast at Dapo’ Khaleeda (102, Jalan Dato Sulaiman, Taman Abad, 80250 Johor Bahru, tel : +60 18-776 6853).

This place serves breakfast/lunch and sells frozen cooked products.

A few items are on self service. Like their nasi lemak which one can help themselves with before heading to the counter for payment. Got one with paru belado, fried egg, fried chicken and some serunding daging. The last item's beef floss. Rice looked like basmati. Pretty tasty in an old school-ish way.

Lontong's also self service. Pretty lemak gravy there. This was topped with serunding daging as well. Not bad.

Satay can be ordered from their menu. That's chicken and maybe mutton. They're chunky and the meat on the skewer is alternated with chunks of fat. Gravy was deliciously thick and nutty with crushed peanuts.

One of they items they're known for is roti sarang burung. It's a variant of roti canai shaped like a bird's nest with a couple of eggs in the middle. One can get the regular version or with topping. This one's has sardines. Not bad tasting. Can't really make out what's that curry on the side.

Underwhelming teh tarik.

Chocolate banana cake from Secret Recipe @ Mid Valley Southkey

Stopped by Secret Recipe (LG-046, The Mall, Mid Valley Southkey, Persiaran Southkey 1, Southkey, 80150 Johor Bahru) for a slice of their chocolate banana cake. Came with a teh tarik as part of their tea set. Teh wasn't good. Tasted like it came from a packet rather than freshly brewed.