Dinner at Dulukala

Back at Dulukala for dinner. Lots of gravies and a nice sambal belachan to ladle over their dry boring rice.

Chap chye.

Sauce from the babi pongteh was less intense with that fermented soybean flavour than I had been imagining. Otherwise the pork belly was pretty tender.

Otah's pretty good. Filled with chunks of fish.

Nice assam fish head. The assam gravy was deliciously fruity, lightly spicy and addictive. Something about it kept me thinking that there was pineapple in it.

This was supposed to be chinchalok omelette but there was very little chinchalok in it. 

Kayago and Popeye's Fav. from Two Men Bagel House

Back at Two Men Bagel House ( 一, 二, 三, 四, 五, 六, 七, 八, 九, 十, 十一, 十二, 十三, 十四, 十五, 十六, 十七, 十八, 十九, 二十, 二十一, 二十二, 二十三, 二十四, 二十五, 二十六, 二十七, 二十八, 二十九, 三十, 三十一, 三十二).

Kayago in sesame bagel. According to the menu, it's smoked chicken ham, chicken floss, TMBH kaya, smoked Kewpie mayo, buttermilk scrambled eggs. Most of that kaya was lost amongst the other stuff in the bagel. Most, not all. Not bad tasting.

This was Popeye's Fav. in plain bagel. A smoked salmon and creamed spinach thingy. Also not bad tasting.

Spring Roll Station, Upper Cross Street

Got wind of Spring Roll Station (Kou Wei Eating House, #01-170, 34 Upper Cross Street). The stall's located in a coffeeshop filled with many/mostly old uncles drinking beer.

Gỏi cuốn with prawns - these were pretty basic without basil or mint. Even the sauce didn't have any peanuts.

Phở gà came with a lime. Use the lime. The chicken-y broth was much better with it. Not a bad tasting bowl.

Not a fan of their glutinous rice (xôi xéo?). Rice was dry and bland. Pate topping wasn't particularly delicious. Those shallots in it came from a plastic pack so they were relatively tasteless. 

Kuey teow 白 from You Yi Minced Meat Noodle (友谊肉脞面)

Kuey teow with no sambal or vinegar from You Yi. Adequately salted and lardy with heat just from the sliced chilli. Nice. What I didn't expect/understand this time round was, why were there fried wantons instead of the regular ones.

Yong Kee Different Taste Hainanese Chicken Rice (勇記不同味海南雞飯), Hong Lim Food Centre

Trying a chicken rice stall (#02-24 Hong Lim Food Centre, 531A Upper Cross Street) I've never noticed previously at Hong Lim Food Centre. They've been around - just that I haven't registered them before.

Got a plate with poached chicken thigh, roast pork and egg.

Pretty decent chicken rice here. Chilli's lime-y, garlicky, a little gingery with a hint of bitterness and some heat. Chicken's tender and rice was adequately flavoured. I think this one was better with chilli than without. Soup has really tender cabbages in it but I'm pretty sure I caught kiam chye flavour. What's not good was the roast pork which had soggy crackling.

虾一跳 (Xia Yi Tiao), Food Republic @ Vivocity

The names for some local eateries have gotten punny over the years. Came across this one at Food Republic (#03-01 VivoCity, 1 HarbourFront Walk). Have never seen/heard of this laksa/prawn noodle stall before.

Pricey big prawn laksa. Somewhere along the tunes of $16 if I remember correctly and portion wasn't exactly big.

Pretty good lemak gravy. Needs a dollop of their sambal stirred in because that gravy has less dimension and body without. Their thick bee hoon (粗米粉) was also thinner than the regular type.