Kampong Glam Cafe

Here's a good stop (17 Bussorah Street) for some down to earth local food. One which I've passed by on countless occasions until recently. No complains at all from their hearty nasi padang which featured surprisingly tender paru goreng down to that blend of sweetness from the shaven coconut, spicy kick of their sambal belachan and lemak savouriness from the sayur lodeh. Pretty much a good selection of distinctive flavours on one plate.

In spite of being a little bland with the broth, the "upgraded with a begedil" mee soto was pretty decent. Piping hot with a mix of chillis and deep fried shallots to go along in a cool rainy afternoon.

Their teh tarik was just the drink to wash everything down with.

Will definitely drop by again when in the vicinity.

Re-visiting Cafe de Hong Kong

Home made grilled cheese sandwich

The magic of wholemeal bread, shredded cheddar, a questionable amount of butter in bed together on a hot frying pan. I'm going to use raisin bread the next time for the next cosmic alignment.

Christmas lunch at Bedrock

This blog is not yet dead!

But this entry is definitely late in the coming as lately, real life has wrapped its reel more tightly about things as I battle to fight for breathing room. But let's get to the food.

We decided to pick up the offer from Bedrock out of numerous emails because we had a good meal from the previous visit and we definitely had hopes that this would not be far from the experience we had from that first visit.

The piping hot and freshly baked flat bread which Bedrock serves has not changed. Exactly how we remembered them to be with the soft buds of garlic and salted butter. Needless to say, we had seconds and even thirds.

Yukon potato soup - truffle cream

The comforting and creamily textured potato soup was really just buffed by the truffle cream which performed admirably with their truffle-y flavour. I couldn't say that the soup was out of this world, but the flavour from the fungus worked enough of it's magic that I've had to admit that it was a pretty decent soup. Yukon potatoes or not.

pumpkin risotto - braised duck, confit tomato, shaved parmigianno reggiano

Their pumpkin risotto turned out to be much better than it appeared on plate in the department of taste. To their credit, the flavour of the pumpkin was identifiable in the creamy rice and it paired off very nicely to that "sweet and salty" effect from the gravy that came with the braised duck. If this item had ended up in the regular menu, I certainly wouldn't mind ordering them again.

steamed sea bass - sautéed asparagus, balsamic reduction, boneless short ribs

The steamed sea bass looked like it might have been seared a little as well instead of just steamed. I'm not overly big on fishes most of the time, but I would have to say that I liked this. The texture of the meat was nicely preserved where the meat didn't just crumble and dissolve in the mouth. Simply flavoured too, was it with nothing short of salt and pepper. I didn't quite understand why a braised short rib came along, but it was surprisingly well done. That melted in the mouth.

duck fat potatoes

We just had to order up the fried potatoes to side up the other items we had. Notice the golden yellows and dark browned edges. It tasted as good as it looked without excessive grease.

steamed banana pudding - vanilla bean ice cream, brandied cherry

We were getting quite stuffed from the food and extra orders of the flat bread earlier. Lacking the capacity of a four stomach cow, I sometimes forget to accommodate space. What would usually impress me about a dessert would be their ability to make me still finish them even when I feel stuffed. This was definitely one of those. It was a suitably soft banana pudding. I guess what helped out there was that the pudding and the large scoop of ice cream weren't too sweet and the tart cherries and sauce helped get us going. Yes, and the gooseberry too.

Raw Kitchen Bar, Upper Bukit Timah

Not bad...

Pupella Pizza, ION Orchard

This was another relatively new pizza joint down at the basement of ION. I've been walking past them on numerous occasions and finally decided to give these fellas, which reminded me of Donatos a try.

Understandably, there was only so much in the "freshly made" taste that one can derive from pizza that's sold over the counter that were heated up only when you ordered them. These were their unheated Parma ham with rocket and their quad cheese pizza which had unexpectedly featured two thickness of crusts. The former being thicker and much chewier since it was left unheated and the other, pretty nice thin crust. I did like the salty Parma ham over a generous bed of rockets, nicely concealed under the pizza. But it was kind of tough chewing through the cold crust. Couldn't complain there since I turned down their offer to have them heated up.

As usual, I would have preferred more blue cheese from that quattro formmagi.