Tsukiji Kaisendon, Holland Village Shopping Centre

Finally came down to Tsukiji Kaisendon (#02-03 Holland Village Shopping Centre, 211 Holland Avenue, tel : +65 8493 0438). This was the queue with an already full house at about 5.30pm on a weekday which according to Google is their opening time for evening service.

From what I could piece together, the restaurant's history started with Sumo-Ya -> Chirashizushi Shou -> Tsukiji Kaisendon -> Takumi Sakaba.

There's Suntory on tap.

And ankimo ponzu.

Their barachirashi was decent as barachirashi went. As an aburi barachirashi, I'll score it something like 2/10. The amount of torching was scant that I could barely taste it. It's not like torching took a lot of skill and this looked like they simply couldn't be bothered.

I'm pretty sure I can get better tasting salmon belly from Donki.

Banana Pudding Oreo

 

So I came across these at Cold Storage.

I can only imagine how banana pudding might taste like. Artificial flavouring of bananas which I usually don't mind.

Might be one layer of regular Oreo cream and another of that banana pudding flavour.

Too sweet. Banana flavour tasted...nothing like I imagined. Didn't like this one.

J2 Famous Crispy Curry Puff, Amoy Street Food Centre

Here's a couple of curry puffs from J2 Famous Crispy Curry Puff (#01-21 Amoy Street Food Centre, 7 Maxwell Road, tel : +65 9475 8425). Both had shatteringly crispy pastry shells and were well filled with their stuffings. On top of that, they never felt heavy or dense.

Sardine's pretty good tasting.

So was the one with chicken and potatoes. Not bad. Didn't recall any egg in there though.

More cai png from Wan Jin Yuan (萬金园)

There's minced pork petai with that got rotated in at Wan Jin Yuan which I've previously not seen. Too bad there wasn't much petai in it. There's some sweetness underlying even though there weren't any onions in it. Gonna be difficult to hold off their fried chicken since they're pretty darn good.

可口鸭, Bukit Timah Interim Food Centre

Chanced upon 可口鸭 (#01-052 Bukit Timah Interim Food Centre, 2A Jalan Seh Chuan) thought that their offerings looked good. 

Ordered kuey chap. The fried shallots and oil that you could help yourself to was so cool.

Very competent plate of braised goods - eggs, large intestines (大肠), duck, pig's skin and tau kwa. All tender and flavourful, notably for the intestines and pig's skin.

Love the rice-y kueh in their uncomplicated savoury broth. Get them with the fried shallot and oil.

Witch's Black Potion with Katsu Kun and other things from Tonkatsu by Ma Maison

Tonkatsu by Ma Maison @ Mandarin Gallery had a Halloween tonkatsu for this year. We went for that and tried a couple of other stuff.

Never seen their chilli cream cheese on the menu before. It's pretty good. There's a savoury flavour from the chilli oils that paired nicely with the cream cheese.

What we were looking forward to today was Katsu Kun 😬. 

Check out the crazed looks. 🤘🏼 One could choose between rosu or hire. This was rosu. Plate came with squid ink black curry. The wagyu menchi katsu on the side's an add on.

Menchi katsu's a mix of minced wagyu and pork. Tender and moist on the inside and was pretty tasty. Didn't taste particularly wagyu-y.